This is the pic I posted a couple of weeks ago. It is the poster for "Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction" which, by the way, is the story that got me hooked on these characters.
It must have been two years ago or thereabouts when I first found out about these guys, because I was in Walmart one afternoon and "Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One" was the game on display in the electronics section ("All 4 One" was released in 2011). I attempted to play it and thought it was fun, though since I didn't know the story or the mission I just kept running around in circles. When I got home that evening I looked it up and read about it a little but didn't really think of it as anything other than "cool" at the time.
Now, after discovering that a movie is being made, I decided to take a second look. I'm glad I did! I have been making my way through the series by watching the cutscenes from every game. They are so long they could be movies by themselves, which is what I think of them as. "Tools of Destruction" was the first one I watched, and I liked it so much I decided to watch the others. Since then I have watched the original "Ratchet and Clank," "Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando," and "Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal." "Up Your Arsenal" is what made me offically decide that I love these characters and their stories.
For those who don't know the story, Ratchet is a Lombax who lived alone on his home planet Veldin until the day he met Clank, a small robot with an important mission. Hoping for adventure, Ratchet agreed to help Clank find Captain Quark, a famous but ridiculous superhero. Together they saved the galaxy from a money-hungry alien, destroyed a race of dangerous "pets," and stopped an evil robot overlord from eliminating all organic life. And that's just the beginning!
So that day I began to wonder if I'd found something awesome? I was right. Ratchet and Clank is right on up there with Sonic and TMNT in my book! All hail the Lombaxes - saviors of the universe! :D
