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One planetary adventure, during which Ratchet skips between dimensions to make his way through a power station that’s derelict in one universe and buzzing with robot guards in the next, felt like an unexpected homage to Alien (and to Creative Assembly’s superb horror game Alien: Isolation), except with more humour and less peril.Sony's gadget-wielding duo return for a brand-new adventure set after the events of the 'Future' storyline in Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus. There’s a lot of obvious Star Wars influence here, but all filtered through developer Insomniac Games’ charmingly goofy Californian lens – one planet is home to a cuddly race of teddy-bear aliens, but they all have Minnesotan accents. Imagine if Dreamworks made Star Wars, and you’re close to the aesthetic. Rivet’s furry ears even flap in the wind.Įverything is colourful and gorgeous.

But if you stop to look around, you’ll notice the attention that’s been paid to the animation and set-dressing. Rift Apart moves fast, and so do protagonists Ratchet and Rivet, especially when gliding around massive planets on jet-boots or grinding across city-spanning networks of rails. As a result, playing for too long feels like the video game equivalent of eating an entire packet of Haribo at once, or reading a book written entirely in all-caps. There’s not a great deal of downtime between all the fighting and immense action set pieces – one of the only relatively chill spaces in this game is a Mos Eisley-style bar, which itself is filled with dancing, chattering aliens and adjacent to a battle arena. Everything you do showers you with sensory feedback.

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