So we were thinking of the It's a Wonderful Life model. “We wanted to build off of what's already there. “The biggest challenge was how do we tell a story that can bring in new players, but also builds on the past history of the franchise that we've been building,” Smith explained, noting that they didn’t want to abandon the series and just continue on from the 2016 reboot. The two interacting and even merely existing in the same adventure allowed Insomniac to explore new character relationships, play off of expectations from pre-existing ones, and create a story that felt true to the franchise but still forged new ground. Of course, as the past looks at the game, our hands-off demo, and time with Smith indicated, Rivet is a fully realized, new hero with her own hopes and goals, who is simply serving the Ratchet role in her dimension. That allows us to bring in new players by experiencing new versions of different characters.”

And I had to walk them through the idea that it is Ratchet and Clank. “And there were some people who were a little worried that it's a game called Ratchet and Clank, not Ratchet and Clank and Rivet. “When I pitched the game, it had a scene that was very similar to what we released in our trailer, where Clank finds himself isolated and calls out to Ratchet and a female lombax steps up and is like, ‘Who?’ That was in the original pitch,” creative director Marcus Smith told IGN in an interview.

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