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Short version: I'm a crusty curmudgeon of an old school fanboy and I still regard this experience as enjoyable as my time spent with Deadlocked and UYA. I rarely prepurchase games for fear of regret, but this is one I don't regret. A little short, but these games are built on being replayable, and this one certainly is.
Gameplay
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We're (almost) back to the good times, the classic run and gun platformer with neat collectibles and satisfying, unique gunplay. Almost all the guns feel great, I only didn't like one of the guns. When you have 18 other options that fill their own niches, and most of the overlap is between things you want to be available on several weapons, one kinda meh option isn't a problem.
Mobility in the game also feels really good, I didn't expect to get a dodge but it was a really neat addition to the formula, and I like that it led to cutting out the older "hack the door" minigames.
Mobility might be a little too good in this game, after a while I was starting to ignore rift teleports and swingshots if they weren't absolutely necessary because of just how mobile you get to be.
Cutscenes, cutaways, and scripted sequences can be a bit obnoxious at times. There were several times I wished I could skip a particular 10-second "pull the camera away from the player to watch this thing they've done before," especially in the meta-space Lemmings game. Overuse of this can feel like the game doesn't trust you to remember there was a result tied to an objective you completed.
I'm a little annoyed that I don't have an option to move and fire freely without crosshairs. I would have liked to be able to fire the Collider while spinning in a circle for dealing with a bunch of small targets, or any other situation of firing in the direction I'm walking instead of where the camera is pointed.
These are minor criticisms, however, and they didn't stop me from having a lot of fun.
Port
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I can't speak for others, there are plenty of people talking about some problem or another. For my experience, this is a very solid port to PC. I rarely ever saw drops in fps, the visual detail was well above what I expected on Medium settings, and my slightly above average PC handled running the game almost 15 hours straight without serious issues. I did notice a few bugs (character model from the Armor UI got stuck in the Collectibles UI, one textbox near the end of the whole game failed to render the text properly, a couple of weapons acted weird), and a friend who watched me play mentioned that a few issues I would have mentioned as gameplay problems seemed like bugs that weren't present in the Playstation version.
None of them were the kind of major bug that made me think "wow they didn't try at all with this port," it genuinely felt like they tried to make the experience as smooth as possible. Again, that's just my experience.
Plot
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I'll be honest, I was disappointed, because I'm one of those PS2 series loving fanboys, and I heard this was meant to follow up on the series and have nothing to do with the reboot. Instead, what I got was a game that needed the rest of the series to happen so it could introduce the plot hook, but still used the reboot version's characterization of Ratchet, Clank, and Nefarious. Rivet and Kit get to go through their parallel dimension version of the friendship arc Ratchet and Clank went through in the first game (albeit shortened because they don't get much time together), while Ratchet and Clank are just...there. They're better here than they were in the reboot, and every once in a while I was like "now that's what I'd expect them to say," but I had more moments where I was reminded, these aren't the same characters I enjoyed growing up. I don't hate who these characters are, they're perfectly fine in a bubble, but they are completely different people.
Having said that, this didn't prevent me from enjoying the plot. It still has that classic feel with choosing the order you go through various events, the characters are still enjoyable, and it does make me want to come back later to replay and also hope there will be more in this series.