Insomniac clearly isn’t gunning for a realistic look here, but Rift Apart is still all kinds of gorgeous. Despite the massive amount of onscreen chaos-which is sometimes beautifully overwhelming in a bright-colour-explosive Housemarque twin-stick-shooter kind of way- Rift Apart didn’t drop frames in my play-through but it was consistently breathtaking. While the AI is never particularly bright, you can challenge yourself to fairer fights by steering clear of overpowered guns or alternatively, if you’re a sucker for cheesy tactics like I am, you can do a Dead Cells-like build of automated death and destruction that you can just deploy and appreciate. There’s a mix of close-range, long-range, area-of-effect and just plain fun guns, which can be combined to tap into a Ratchet & Clank power fantasy once you start upgrading them. Whenever you do run out of ammo, it forces you to use new or underappreciated arsenal items, and it’s almost always for the better. Sure, there is platforming and there are puzzles, but there’s no denying that Rift Apart is a shooter first and everything else second. Once you give into the requirements of the weapon-upgrade system, boss battles and fights against waves of enemies become a beautiful bullet ballet as you unleash hell while sprinting, dodging, jumping or, later in the game, skating around or through these combat arenas. It’s a good thing levelling up equates to simply using a weapon more, and considering that running out of ammo is a very real threat in boss battles, you’ll be left with just an OmniHammer if you insist on sticking with the four weapons you can bind to the D-pad.Īll other weapons-and there are a bunch, almost all of which are great-are found by holding Triangle, which conveniently slows time.
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While looter-shooters deter weapon allegiance because your next favourite gun may be in the next crate you crack open, Rift Apart’s approach to weapons is one that rewards fervent area-clearers and deters blinkered main-pathers who may miss out on the bigger, better, wackier mid-game and late-game sci-fi shooters.ĭepending on your patience levels, Rift Apart will either inspire or frustrate you (or maybe both) because you have to level weapons up to a certain point before you can access all of their upgrades. This is just one of many collectable items you’ll find in a sea of Bolts (in-game currency) that’ll have you bashing every object you encounter just to see if it’ll spew out the last few Bolts you need for your next weapon purchase. For my play-through, the Burst Pistol evolved from basic to versatile and essential companion after I fully upgraded it with Raritanium. Pull the trigger halfway for an accurate single shot or yank the trigger all the way for burst-fire mode. In many respects, Rift Apart’s arsenal is a clear embodiment of the design philosophy of these games: prioritise fun at all costs and take every opportunity to entertain the player.įor instance, at first glance the Burst Pistol is the kind of basic starting weapon you get in most shooters, but the PS5’s adaptive triggers help elevate it, even if it does lead to a sore trigger finger during lengthy play sessions. While I’m no Ratchet & Clank historian, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart has an eclectic range of pew-pews that range from riffs on familiar archetypes to downright bonkers blasters. In so doing, these devs had set themselves the seemingly insurmountable task of one-upping their own arsenal whenever a new Ratchet & Clank game rolled around. And while the quality of Resident Evil games has varied in the past decade (check out my Resident Evil Village review here), my introduction to and experiences with Ratchet & Clank in the same timeframe have all been positive.Īction-platformers tend to blur into one for me, but my love of shooters meant I immediately fell in love with Insomniac Games’ clear adoration, not to mention implementation, of a god-tier arsenal.
This means I missed out on the early days of Resident Evil and so many other PlayStation icons, including Ratchet & Clank, which meant I was late to the part on some iconic franchises. The point of this history lesson is to contextualise that, unlike so many other homes, I never had access to a PlayStation until I eventually bought a PlayStation 3.
Prior to that, I spent a lot of time with my Game Boy and the last TV-connected console in my family home was the Mega Drive, before some clown flogged it. The first console I ever splashed cash on was the original Xbox.
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