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Ratchet & Clank Speedrunning's Worst Planet

ThaRixer

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This is Planet Hoven.

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20 Comments

@Iamperson1965 4 years ago

It's funny, you play these games so much when you're young that you honestly don't think there is anything more to know about them. But watching your videos is like finding a secret draw in an old antique desk you've had for 20 years.

@connorbeith3232 4 years ago

The fact the game's very first speedrun is archived, with video footage no less, is honestly a miracle based what i've seen in other speedrun videos where footage of early runs are lost to time.

@wingedangel6030 4 years ago

12:40 "You think you've seen bad quality before, brace yourself"

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Well played!

@Jp100-7 2 years ago

Getting a story told by the hero is crazy 💀

@Condor_Ravager 4 years ago

How does one discover “oh I’m just gonna pull the Rhino out then play a movie just before going into the turret” to keep access to the gun? Completely bonkers

@YuriOnlyPlease 3 years ago

"I love it when after doing a lots of ridiculously hard tricks, there's that one particular section of the run is heavily RNG reliant and I can't do anything about it"

@Stevengubler 3 years ago

When I was a kid, I would have sworn to high heaven that shooting the turrets on the planet buster dealt extra damage to it. I don't know how I figured that out exactly, it was just a sense I got. Glad to finally be vindicated after all these years.

@surf_png 4 years ago

Ratchet did not take kindly to being broken in half, the galaxy now quakes in fear as he looms over them all...

@ZeroIsMany 4 years ago

I still find it mind boggling that PS3 R&C didn't get it's own leaderboard when the difference was immediately so clear. I'd spent so much time on practicing it, but gave up because I wasn't going to buy a new console just for the sake of speedrunning.

@GTARazer 4 years ago

22:48 Years ago I thought you had to shoot those turrets to deal any damage at all. Glad to learn something new about this pretty average section of an old game much later.

@KingofAwesomness14 2 years ago

"and that player was me" was the most humble flex in the world. I mean really, that's so cool you got into it. Nice work!

@HDZippo 3 years ago

ah the memories of one scratch in the disk resulting in permanently flying to a planet being stuck, forced to reset and lose all your progress!

@malarauko 4 years ago

You know what I love about these videos, the fact that occasionally you pop up as a character in the history and it's not like some overhyped description of your involvement.

@The-Roundest-Rat 1 year ago (edited)

Love how a lot of R&C speedrunning is just "what if Clank's rockets and propellers got JUICED?"

@lekoe961 4 years ago

Always great to see videos on individual sections of runs like these, most tend to focus on a full run but I really like seeing how a split evolves over time!

@BoyProdigyX 3 years ago

There's something OG about the shitty video quality of old recorded runs. I mean, they weren't necessarily made for viewing pleasure. They were usually made for verification purposes. Plus, YouTube was a baby back then and Twitch was still swimmin' in its daddy's ballbag, so there wasn't much of a reason/audience.

@theKStocky 4 years ago

17:17 Loving the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater Special sound effect. Made me smile

@T4B_M3RC 3 years ago

0:48 Thanks for the Grand Turismo 4 Music, that stuff Is a classical nostalgic trip.

@99sonder 4 years ago

I never really thought that much of Hoven. But that Sneepy clip of the ship going to the moon was insane

@acemcwolf5445 3 years ago

You know, I love thinking about how speed running looks in universe, Like those terminal montage videos.
Imagine Drek setting up this massive, Heavily militarised ship hanger. Fully confident that there's no chance that Ratchet would be albe to get past the army he's put there...
Then Ratchet just fucking SCALES THE SIDE OF THE SHEER CLIFF FACE, BYPASSING THE ARMY, BLOWING UP THE CARRIER SHIP AND LEAVING IN LESS THAN 2 MINUTES!