Grooter48 wrote:You're not alone. I recently picked up a PS3 with the R&C and Sly collections. I tried out Ratchet and Clank first, and encountered many of the same issues that you experienced. It felt like a slog, but I wanted to experience the series in order. I felt things improved in Going Commando, but the series seemed to find its groove in Up Your Arsenal. I actually enjoyed Tools of Destruction the most so far, as I still need to play the last games of the Future trilogy.
As for Sly, I did the same thing that you're doing, alternating games. Personally, Sly took me by surprise, and I ended up enjoying that series more than Ratchet and Clank. There seemed to be a greater focus on platforming in Sly, while R&C seemed to focus on the weapons.
*thumbs up*
In some of the videos I've skimmed, yeah I think Sly might be the one to win me over. I said it elsewhere... but I still prefer Mario styled games when it comes to platformers. Gex, Banjo, Spyro, etc. So yeah, I just love actually jumping and weird level design, navigating, weird puzzles, etc. None of these things were the problem in R&C, it was the annoying enemies and lack of health/good checkpoints, which was the brunt of the game.
Another thing I noticed is that some of the mid levels were super easy. But even if I had all the weapons I did early on, it was just like the enemies were randomly super hard on some planets, and not on others. So the difficulty just seemed kind of all over the place.
I do want to keep going with the R&C series, just don't see myself obsessing over them like my roommate does and I don't know if I could ever run through the first again after that... lol.
I can say the writing and characters were great, I'm a sucker for sci-fi, and at times the game even kind of made me think of Metroid Prime which is cool. Colorful, weird sci-fi worlds. So yeah... I do want to play more. But phew, I'll take a breather before I hit up the next one. lol
