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This was my first mastery for a game I've never played, and I ended up having a lot of fun! I've always wanted to try Spyro and the recent Collect-a-Thon gave me a great reason to play through the whole game.

This was a really fun set! Getting 100% on the game is fun on its own, though the game shows its age a bit and there were some frustrating moments. The extra stuff, like time challenges and no hit runs were tough but fun to figure out. Overall, I think they did a great job with it. Felt like I got the full tour of the game and had to really work for some of it, but it felt pretty fair.

Getting the last of the dragons also got me enough points to get my first event badge! I didn't know those were a thing until recently, now I can't wait for my next one. There seems to be a bunch of evergreen events, but I don't think I can get all the achievements for most of them.

In between sessions of Ratchet games, I took a bit of a break to replay the original Sly since I needed most of a full playthrough for the Collect-a-Thon Event. Turns out that the rest of the cheevos were pretty pretty reasonable so I decided to shoot for mastery.

All in all, this set was a lot of fun! Since I had recently beaten this game in the PS3 collection, I decided to jump right into the missables which require you to do a perfect run through Sly's levels the first time. It's honestly not so bad when you consider that you'll pretty much need to do that anyway for the Master Thief sprints, which took a good bit of time but were fun to learn and rewarding to finally complete. I'd highly recommend this game highly for anyone who's a fan of old school platformers, it still holds up really well.

I've finally finished getting all the main achievements for the PS2 games on RetroAchievements, a really cool site that lets you, as the name implies, unlock achievements for retro games. It's given me another reason to run through some of my favorite childhood games, and playing through the whole PS2 pentalogy a few more times each has given me an even deeper appreciation for them. And despite playing through them all a good 4-6 times in the past year, I still want to go back and play them again, they're just that fun.

That said... I think I'll shelf Size Matters for a good while, even if I do full replay of the other PS2 games. This is a game I've always had a fondness for since I was a kid. Just being able to play a Ratchet & Clank game on the school bus was mindblowing to me at the time. As an adult, and having recently replayed the whole series... it was a bit of a frustrating experience as well as a nostalgia trip. I didn't have too much trouble with the bolt economy this time around and it wasn't too much of a struggle to get through areas, but the pacing of the game is frustrating after playing Up Your Arsenal which felt so streamlined (albeit barebones). That game lacked the extra content I wanted but you were never too far off from the fun core gameplay. And the core gameplay, the shooting, wasn't as satisfying here and especially after playing Deadlocked, it feels extremely unsatisfying.

Basically, everything in this game is a worse version of the rest of the series, and in many cases it has the absolute worst iteration of any given aspect of a Ratchet game. That being said, it's still a Ratchet game, and that does count for something. I still felt excited to come home and play through it again, even after multiple playthroughs, even if it was mostly just to get those last few achievements by Challenge Mode 2. There's honestly so few games like Ratchet, so I'm a little sad I've pretty much 100% completed them all on the PS2.

If anyone is looking to replay this one and go achievement hunting, I'd recommend it overall, the set on RA really isn't too bad and the new game plus playthroughs go by pretty quick since the game is pretty short. There's a few frustrating moments to be sure, but I found it worth suffering through. In the end, I give this game a Snowbeast Award / 10.

Finally finished mastering the PS2 Ratchet games! The Lemmings puzzles in the treehouse were aggravating as well as a couple skill points, but all in all this wasn't as bad as I was thinking. Definitely a fair and pretty straightforward set of achievements for one of the worst games in the series. Still, I will say I had a fun time playing through it again, even if it's worse in nearly every way, it's still a Ratchet game! Now it's time to finish Sly 1 and go from there.

I just hope we can someday have cheevo sets for the PS3 games as well, I'd love another excuse to go back through them all!

If I had shot two more asteroids or satellites I'd have gotten the skill point 😢 enjoying my replay of Size Matters for the most part, though, in spite of the many frustrations...

Another fun and simple, yet challenging set! I had to do an extra playthrough because my first was on a challenge mode save, but replaying the game on Exterminator difficulty didn't feel like a slog at all, the game is just that fun. Thank you author for giving me one more reason to replay this PS2 classic! 😄 ❤️

Replaying it another three times has really given me an increased appreciation for this game and how it perfected the third person bullet hell gameplay of Ratchet's PS2 era. This was a really fun set of achievements to go for and I recommend it to anyone else who wants another reason to go back and play these classics. Now it's time to see if I can do the same for Size Matters!

I've finally gotten all the achievements for Ratchet 3, finishing out all the set on RetroAchievments for the whole trilogy. Even after getting the Platinum trophy for them all so recently, and having replayed them so many times as a kid on PS2 then PS3, I still found myself getting excited to sit down and play more Ratchet & Clank, and these achievements gave me another fun checklist of challenges to do to give me another reason to play again.

I truly can't think of another series that has so much replay value, not just from its content, but in how the sheer fun of just playing it never gets old to me. If you're able to play on a PS2 emulator, I highly recommend giving it a look!

For my third mastery, I finished the original PS2 Ratchet & Clank trilogy with the third game, Up Your Arsenal!

Overall this was another fun set. All three games have fun and challenging sets of achievements, some are a little tricky, some guided me to hidden corners of these games I never knew existed even after hundreds of hours, but mostly it just gave me another reason to play these incredibly fun and endlessly replayable games from my childhood. If you're looking for a series to play while achievement hunting, I'd highly recommend all three whether you're a fan since the early 2000s or a newcomer to the series.

Next, I think I'll start a new game of Deadlocked and see if that helps to unlock some achievements that weren't popping when I started with a Challenge Mode run. Wish me luck!

In the original Ratchet & Clank, we see a poster of Captain Quark on the wall of the garage Ratchet lives in. This makes sense at this point in the R&C canon, as Ratchet used to "look up to him" and hear about him on the radio. At the end of the game however, upon returning to planet Veldin, we can see the poster is no longer there. Was it taken down by Drek as a form of petty revenge >!against his former spokesman for his failure to murder Ratchet and Clank?!<Or did Ratchet himself do so off-screen after becoming disillusioned by >!Quark's attempted murder?!<We do see Ultimate Supreme Executive Chairman Drek posing outside of Ratchet's house while shooting a commercial for the destruction of Veldin on live TV, so we can place him at the scene of the crime with a motive (he hated Quark and called him a "buffoon").

In Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando, we see Ratchet's home briefly in the opening cutscene before >!Quark himself!<teleports him to the Bogon galaxy, where he ends up living with Clank in his apartment on the planet Endako until the beginning of Up Your Arsenal. Vexingly, this opening cutscene does not show us a proper angle of the wall in which the Captain Quark poster originally appears, leading us to question whether it was put back at some point between the two games at all, and by whom.

In the beginning of Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal, Ratchet returns to his homeworld to find his old garage home in shambles, with the poster appearing on the same place on the wall as it did in the very beginning of the first game. However, because we can clearly see it was not on the wall in the final level of the same game, we must infer that someone or something taped the poster back on the wall between the end of the original game and the beginning of the third game.

What's more, we later see the poster reappear in Ratchet's new home in the living quarters aboard the Starship Phoenix. As >!Quark was convinced he was a monkey at this time, it's highly unlikely he could have done so at this point in the lore, despite having returned to the Solana Galaxy sometime after his last crotchitizer testing as a Megacorp employee and before Ratchet's return to the Solana galaxy to save Veldin.!<

A few possibilities exist. Is it possible Ratchet himself put the poster up on the wall in the interim between defeating Drek and becoming a commando for Megacorp >!(highly unlikely given that it's a poster of someone who recently attempted to murder him)!<? Or did someone else do so while Ratchet was in another galaxy, sometime before the tyhrranoid invasion? Could it be a deeper mystery that reveals Ratchet's inner turmoil and complicated feelings towards the embattled and morally complicated superhero? Could it perhaps be an oversight by Insomniac Games' designers or a simple attempt to save memory? Or could it be...

ONE OF NATURE'S MYSTERIES

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Just wanted to show off that I've 100% completed Going Commando, again! This time, on the PS2 version because I'm a cheevo fiend. If you haven't tried RetroAchievements yet, give it a try if you're playing on an emulator for the old games, this set is pretty simple to obtain and just gives you more reason to play one the of the best Ratchet games of all time.

Just completed my second mastery! I got all the achievements for the original a couple of weeks ago, and since then I was hyped up to continue my journey with another replay of one of my favorite games of all time, Going Commando! This was such a fun set, pretty straightforward but it covers all the bases without anything too extreme. This is a really fun mastery to go for if only to have another reason to play this amazing game again. I learned a few new things along the way, too!

Thanks to the fine folks at RA and the authors of this achievement set for giving me another reason to play through this game! <3

Only recently found out about this awesome site, and decided to start with one of my favorite childhood games. This was a really fun set, it added some extra challenge to the game but felt pretty fair all the way through.

After getting the platinum trophy for the PS3 version, I was itching for a reason to replay it and RetroAchievements has a challenging but fair set of cheevos to go after for anyone who plays on PS2 emulation. It made me play in different ways and try out different weapons and strategies I've never tried before, and overall the achievement hunt for this one just increased my appreciation for this classic I love so much.

If you haven't tried RA before and you play on an emulator, give it a look! Adding achievements is a great way to make the game feel new again, and for me everything worked flawlessly. They even have leaderboards for comparing your best times through certain areas and other challenges, such as least amount of hits taken or your best times for the racing minigames.

Now it's time to kill Drek in NG+ before seeing if I can master Going Commando, too. Wish me luck!

I must have beaten this game at least a dozen times since the original release, have completed it 100% and somehow I never knew this until now.

It took a couple days and several hours to get the muscle memory right and optimize my route, but it went a lot easier when I realized the solution was to just stop jumping as much, haha. Does anyone else weirdly kind of enjoy the hoverboard minigame? After spending so much time with it trying to get the skill point a couple of times, it's kind of grown on me.

Having been a Ratchet fan since the original, it feels good to finally 100% them all. Now it's time to start achievement hunting in the PS2 versions, starting with another playthrough of Deadlocked. Even though I've done just about everything there is to do, I still want to go back and play these games again and again because there are no other games quite like them.

In other words, a series you became a huge fan because of an appearance in some other media or weird spinoff.

For example, I never played the Silent Hill games as a kid when I had a PS2, but I LOVED this LittleBigPlanet level based on the 2006 movie. It got me to watch the movie which I loved and eventually got me into the games starting with the original on PS1. Now I consider Silent Hill 3 to be one of my favorite games of all time.

As another, I loved Melee growing up so naturally I spent a lot of time playing PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. I had to play every character to get the Platinum but Raiden quickly became my favorite. His moveset was so fun it convinced me to download the demo for Revengance which I loved so much it convinced me to play the whole series... in chronological order. So I ended up playing MGS3, Peace Walker, MG1/2, MGS1, MGS2 and MGS4 just to better understand the story of the Platinum game.