This is my absolute favorite screenshot of mine from this game. I love it so much, I actually had it as my desktop background for a while. Just so much energy and action in this one shot! It was a satisfying scene to play through as well.
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart was an extremely fun game to play. Not only was the gameplay enjoyable, but the cinematics seamlessly blended into the game, both visually and interactively.
I always tell people that games are interactive stories for me. I don’t play games for a challenge or to do a mind-numbing repetitive task (coughMOBAcough). I want a good, rich story to enjoy, with at least some limited control over the plot so it feels like I’m an active part of it.
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart did an excellent job with that, bouncing back and forth between Ratchet and Clank separated in a parallel dimension, and their dimensional counterparts Rivet and Kit trying to separately help them reunite and stop Doctor Nefarious and his dimensional counterpart, Emperor Nefarious.
I actually enjoyed Rivet’s story much more than Ratchet’s, so most of my screenshots are from her gameplay. She lives in a world where Emperor Nefarious has already conquered the galaxy, so it’s a dark and futile landscape. I love alternate-reality/parallel dimension/what-if stories, and this really scratches that itch.
The facial expressions of all the characters are so expressive, too! During cutscenes, I would sometimes forget I’m playing a game. And it didn’t just end with cutscenes; the characters would continue to emote and interact with their environment throughout the gameplay, so it didn’t feel like jumping from a cutscene to the game and back again. Most of my screenshots are during cutscenes though, because I was too enthralled with the gameplay to remember to stop and take some nice pictures.
For a few more story screenshots, here’s the (abridged) conversation between Ratchet and Rivet upon their first meetup.
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