Ratchet and Clank is one of Sony’s biggest franchises. It helped launch the PS5 raytracing and SSD era with the critically acclaimed and technologically impressive Rift Apart. Its numerous entries on the PS2 delivered dependable goofy action, bringing a new family audience to Sony’s hardcore gaming ecosystem. The PS3 housed the Future series, a pseudo spin-off/reboot with a whole new level of scope and gameplay polish thanks to the console’s better processor and GPU, and it was a true blockbuster in Sony’s catalog.
The PS4 got exactly one Ratchet and Clank game…and it’s also a movie tie-in title that isn’t amazing.
How did this happen?
Sony has been trying to get into the multimedia cross-pollination game with their IP for a long time. The recent Uncharted movie and the hyped-up Last of Us TV series are the latest examples of this — but Ratchet and Clank was their first big attempt way back in 2016.
I had the chance to see the movie and play the game thanks to the magic of Netflix and PlayStation Plus subscriptions. The movie is the most aggressively okay animated movie I’ve seen in years. It’s like a 90-minute…
