Sure, Ratchet has some of his typical weapons - his sidearm called the Omniblaster and his signature melee weapon, for instance - but there are a bunch of new tools at his disposal that are worth noting. Yerek is your typical Ratchet & Clank locale - a temperate place inhabited by bumbling, heavily-armed enemies - and it’s here that I got my very first glimpse of Ratchet’s new, incredibly wacky arsenal. Following Vendra and Neftin Prog’s escape, Ratchet & Clank arrive at a planet called Yerek. They then segued what they learned (or re-learned) into their new project, which isn’t only designed to give longtime Ratchet fans what they crave, but to explore the “darkness of space.” While Into the Nexus is very humorous, as all Ratchet games are, Allgeier thought it would be “fun to take in a spookier direction” with its newest entry. They're back!As such, Allgeier wanted to “make Ratchet feel like Ratchet again.” To accomplish this goal, he and his team made a prototype stage - a “jungle gym,” as he described it - to get Ratchet’s quintessential feel just right. Allgeier said that doing a “family” and “competitive” game, respectively, allowed his team to finally “do something different,” but Into the Nexus allows them to go back in an old-school direction.
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All 4 One and Full Frontal Assault were enjoyed by some and criticized by others, but it can’t be disputed that neither was a traditional, true-to-form Ratchet & Clank game. Long-time Insomniac employee and the visionary behind the Ratchet & Clank series, Brian Allgeier, noted that “the time was right to come back to the core series” with Into the Nexus after he'd spent time on Fuse. This leaves Ratchet and Clank alone and stranded in the scariest sector of space they’ve ever visited. This voyage brings our favorite lombax-and-robot duo to haunted space, however, and while in the process of bringing his foes to lock-up, they escape Ratchet’s grasp.
Into the Nexus begins with Ratchet and Clank transporting twin villains Vendra and Neftin Prog to a location known as the Vartax Detention Center.