{"id":23,"date":"2012-02-08T10:37:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T18:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/one-factorial.com\/wordpress\/?p=23"},"modified":"2012-02-22T01:57:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T09:57:35","slug":"see-they-use-bolts-as-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.one-factorial.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/see-they-use-bolts-as-currency\/","title":{"rendered":"See, they use bolts as currency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Originally Published 12 May 2010<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two weekends ago, I played through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/secure.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/wiki\/Ratchet_and_Clank_Future:_A_Crack_In_Time\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time<\/a>. For those unfamiliar with the series, they&#8217;re rather quirky platformers with a humor slant and little need for realism.<\/p>\n<p>I gushed about the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/guyblade.livejournal.com\/133603.html\">previous one<\/a>, and the sequel is quite good in its own right. The game follows most of the recent platformer tropes: weapons that level up when used, a dozen different types of collectables, jumping puzzles on rails, etc. The game does branch out a bit from the standard fair by adding some interesting things by making use of time-travel based puzzles. These show up in the form of rooms where you can record a sequence of moves for a &#8220;shadow&#8221; and then work in cooperation with the shadow to get through the room. Although this particular type of puzzle has shown up in a few flash games, this is the first time that I&#8217;ve seen it carried out in 3D in a modern platformer.<\/p>\n<p>I found the game enjoyable enough that I decided to defeat it. I had mostly completed the task by the end of my first playthrough, but getting all of the trophies required a second playthrough anyway (basically there was a trophy for beating the game a second time) and I got the remaining trophy that I needed in the post-game of my second playthrough.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m beginning to come to the conclusion that the\u00a0<em>Ratchet and Clank<\/em>\u00a0series is one of the top-tier Playstation-exclusive titles. Although it may not be as angry and violent as say\u00a0<em>God of War<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0<em>Resistance<\/em>, it provides one of the most enjoyable gaming experiences that I&#8217;ve had lately. It definitely helps that the game makes a strong point of not taking itself too seriously and provides continual humor value without compromising on gameplay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time: 1!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally Published 12 May 2010 Two weekends ago, I played through\u00a0Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time. For those unfamiliar with the series, they&#8217;re rather quirky platformers with a humor slant and little need for realism. I gushed about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.one-factorial.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/see-they-use-bolts-as-currency\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[12,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.one-factorial.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.one-factorial.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.one-factorial.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.one-factorial.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.one-factorial.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.one-factorial.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/www.one-factorial.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.one-factorial.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.one-factorial.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.one-factorial.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}