Secret Agent Clank Review

It's a decent enough game, I might actually prefer this over Size Matters. The camera controls for shooting is much better and this game has a more unique identity of being a more stealth oriented Ratchet game rather than a heavy emphasis on shooting. It certainly has more going for it than Ratchet on a smaller screen.

The stealth while not too bad and can be decent has an issue that a lot of stealth game without detection arrows have is that you can bump into or enemies can see without giving a player a better sense of when you can be alerted where you could retreat or push forward moving from cover to cover. The QTEs to do takedowns can be kind of cool but at the same time it can be boring seeing the same takedown and makes the stealth sequences longer since you got to do the QTE and watch the takedown animation play out. I also wish there was more ways to incapictate guards without takedowns, lasers and the occasional enviromental hazard are decent but the game can go further with it. As a result, I often got alerted and just killed every enemy when the game gave me the chance, I did like the disguise sections and it handles them better than the earlier Hitmans and would even include the certain guards can see you system before the 2016 Hitman game. The shooting is decent but lacks the feedback that other Ratchets have.

The negatives would be that buying weapons for Ratchet feels redundant if you just follow the beaten story path. Ratchet and Qwark's gameplay don't add much to the plot but I do think they do a decent enough job at breaking up the pace. This is s a big one but those rhythmn games are fucking terrible and saps out all the enjoyment I get from the game, it feels like the devs included them because they needed to include some gameplay, and this was their way to do it without spending too many resources. These sequences are bad due to how long they are and how much content you got to do just watching Clank play out the same sequences. The Casino one being the worst in how fast your reactions need to be and how long and dragged out it is in general. But the funny thing, get past the Casino rhythmn game and the game gets pretty enjoyable. So if you can bear with those awful rthymn mini games, there is a decently enjoyable game here, but if those mini games aggrevate you, I get it. The other mini games are decent distractions with that said.