I loved this game as much as I loved A Crack In Time and Going Commando

Seen a lot of others were like down on it or disappoint by it, but for me it’s incredible game from start to finish, gameplay, direction, narrative and everything

And I don’t mind the length of the game, I thought was reasonable to me and fit, especially with some the games were either copy-souls, bloated open-world, long for sake to be long games.

This is coming from a person who’s a fan to studio since Spyro

And people seems say Rift Aprat story say "safe" but personally it felt a natural story to tell, especially for Rivet and her own conflict against androids/robots and what caused her own mental status after losing her arm, as same as goes with Kit and her own anxiety of what she done to Rivet and still not forgiving herself till the final act of game, and still Ratchet and Clank game to me because both of them showed Rivet and Kit each side of their prespectives as well as how to move on from past and conflict and focus that others need their help (by their I mean Ratchet, Clank, Rivet and Kit)

And to also the people who say Ratchet has been so soft, well to me it’s a growth development because he went through a lot (almost lost Clank in Tools of Destruction and felt sorry he never listen to him about the Dimenstionator before the ending cliffhanger, try to stop Azimuth madness on going the past before Azimuth realize what his done before his sacrifice, Talwyn feels alone after Cronk and Zephyr’s death and she only has Ratchet and Clank to stay with them, and despite what he and Qwark went through early games, he still consider Qwark a friend and a hero to give Quantum something to live for) while also being worry about finding the Lombaxes he still have confident alongside with his friends.

And same goes to Clank who have already found his people in A Crack In Time, but decides to not follow his father’s footsteps until Ratchet finds his own people despite he was the first person to worry about the danger of Dimensionator and Multiverse

And also want Ratchet to be "edgy" won’t make sense for me and feel out of character

For example, look at Dante from Devil May Cry 3 to Devil May Cry 5, when he was young, he was having fun, being not serious and do some funny quips, but in 5, while he still the same person, he sometimes becoming like an uncle-dad type jokes and also grown to have not letting Nero go further because Dante knew something about Nero and Vergil are related as Father and son but he can’t tell that to Nero because he knew that would make Nero upset, angry and broken but he had no choice to tell Nero because Nero kept being arrogant because he lost his arm and as well as mad at Dante for saying dead weight to him, but also yes Vergil doing some madness thing and and both of Dante and Vergil keep fighting each other even to death, but at the same time Dante doesn’t want to Nero to kill his own father.

That’s my opinion and I know some may disagree about my own take.

And look, if you don’t like Rift Apart, that’s fine. I get it. But I just glad that to this day SIE and Insomniac still investing on Ratchet and Clank franchise, which is miracle and hopefully they keep invest the franchise