Ratchet and Clank - A Rift Apart

I’ve just spent nearly seventy quids on a video game. Oof. That ‘s a lot of money. And I haven’t got anything to show for it. Just an entry on a server somewhere in the land of Sony noting the fact that they have just made me a bit poorer. My PS5 is one of the ones that doesn’t have a disk drive. I was very happy to get it back last year when they were very hard to source. I don’t buy many video games. This is the first one I’ve purchased since the first week of ownership. I find that the PlayStation Plus monthly subscription gets me enough new toys to play with. However, I’d been planning to get this game since the console came out.

It is very good. The only jarring note for me was the way that the first screen I saw after downloading (a 45G download in about 12 minutes or so - thanks KC) was one offering me a chance to spend an extra 10 quids on the “deluxe” edition of the game. As if. However, the gameplay, the writing and the effects are very impressive. Movie impressive. They’ve used all the colours in their paint box, plus a few new ones, to make a bright and vibrant environment for you to blast your way through. I’ve not played it for that long, but I know enough to want to play it through to the very end. Then I want to go back through again and spend more time looking at the scenery.

And I seem to remember that when the first PlayStation came out all those years ago some of the games were nudging 60 pounds or so a pop which, allowing for inflation must have been a sizeable chunk of change back in the day.