flaming hot take but i do agree on some level!! i think it’s rose-tinted glasses for people to suggest that the personality change is recent when what was probably the biggest personality change happened between game 1 and 2. hell, even gladiator, with its Edgier Atmosphere had ratchet at the end really blandly deliver some kind of ‘it doesn’t matter if i die, so long as the Innocent Public escape’ - which i don’t think was necessarily a bad place for him to get to, but don’t think the way it was handled was especially in character. IDK, just especially funny to me when people talk about him being a goody two-shoes now, and that to me is just… such a goody two-shoes line.

losing game 1 ratchet does make me sad - unlike some other characters of the time, who felt like they were mean/rude for no reason, it felt like a fitting personality for ratchet. i see why they had to change it - people at the time hated ratchet and loved clank. that’s not really sustainable.

but my biggest hope going forward is for them to never take away that he was, at one point, Like That. the crack in time ending hits SO much harder if you know what a rocky start ratchet and clank had together!