=====================Ratchet and Clank Walkthrough======
====Written by Aklite======
-This guide contains no spoilers (Not that there's much to spoil
anyway).
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Table of Contents
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I.  Introduction
a.  Intro
b.  Version History
II. Weapons and gadgets
a.  Weapons
b.  Gadgets
III.Walkthrough
-Basic gameplay information
a.  Planet Veldin
b.  Planet Novalis
c.  Planet Kerwan
d.  Planet Aridia
e.  Planet Eudora
f.  Nebula G34
g.  Planet Rilgar
h.  Planet Umbris
i.  Planet Batalia
j.  Planet Orxon
k.  Planet Gaspar
l.  Planet Pokitaru
m.  Planet Hoven
n.  Gemlik Base
o.  Planet Oltanis
p.  Planet Quartu
q.  Planet Kalebo III
r.  Drek's Fleet
s.  Planet Veldin
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I.  Introduction
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a.  Intro
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Ratchet and Clank is a real fun game which doesn't seem to be too
popular, but is really fun nonetheless.  The gameplay is different than
that of many games, but it is for the better.  The later Ratchet and
Clanks are fun too, but I personally like the first Ratchet and Clank
as my favorite.
PLEASE READ FIRST:
In this guide I will cover the locations of most gold bolts, but
not skill points.  Most gold bolts are simply hidden and easily
obtained, whereas skill points require more in-depth coverage, which I
won't go into here.  I will cover a couple skill points which are a
result of a tactic which works best in a situation anyway.
Also, I do not give solutions for trespasser locks, except for a fairly
difficult one in Gemlik base, because if you are anything like me these
are fun to try and figure out, and I really missed having them in the
other ratchet games.  So if you need trespasser solutions, you can get
them from an in-depth FAQ.
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b.  Version History
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2.0 (06/07/07):  Walkthrough complete.
1.4 (06/06/07):  Continued the guide up to Drek's base.
1.3 (06/02/07):  Continued the guide up to Gemlik Base.
1.2 (05/30/07):  After at eternity, finally started working on the
guide again up to Planet Orxon.
1.1 (03/25/06):  Continued the walkthrough on different occasions up to
Planet Batalia.
1.0 (02/13/06):  First version of the FAQ.  Added all sections and
begun the walkthrough.
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II.  Weapons and Gadgets
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a.  Weapons
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Ratchet: Your ratchet is a melee weapons with no ammo limit.  It is
easy to use and has some fun moves.  When in first person view or
crouching down, you are able to throw the wrench forward to get far
away enemies or attract bolts which are out of reach.
Bomb glove:  This is a weapon you get at the beginning of the game.
Even though it is only a starting weapons, it is actually pretty
powerful, especially for large groups of small enemies.
Blaster:  You buy this weapon from a vendor.  It is pretty nice for
getting single enemies far away, and has an auto targeting feature
which is nice.
Pyrocitor:  A short range flamethrower which is extremely useful for
high numbers of enemies at close range.  It is especially effective on
small, weak enemies.
Suck Cannon:  A sweet weapon, and the absolute best way to kill small
enemies.  This sucks small enemies (up to 5) into your cannon, and
fires them as missiles.  Actually I don't use missiles nearly as much
as I just like to suck them up.
Glove of Doom:  Glove of doom sends a bunch of little kamikaze bots to
attack your enemies.
Devastator:  The devastator is a rocket launcher, only really useful
towards heavy enemies unless you have the golden version.
Tesla claw:  This weapon is SO SWEET!  When a ton of weak enemies are
ahead of you, just activate and fire the telsa claw, and they won't
last long.  The golden version is possibly the best weapon in the game,
besides the RYNO of course.
Decoy glove:  The decoy glove drops a decoy of yourself for enemies to
attack.  I personally never cared about this weapon, because it is more
trouble than I am willing to go to just to kill some enemies.  I just
whip out my pyrocitor and wipe out everyone.
RYNO:  The RYNO is an awesome weapon which is also extremely expensive
(150,000 bolts).  However, you could have a whole horde of enemies in
front of you, one shot from the RYNO, and poof.  They are all dead.
One shot fires 8 missiles, splash damage, and there are 50 shots you
have.  The only downside is that you cannot pick up ammo for the RYNO,
it can only be bought.
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b.  Gadgets
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Swingshot:  You get this gadget real early on, and it is very necessary
for most of the game.  There are a few skillpoints which involve skill
with the swingshot.
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III.  Walkthrough
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-Basic overview
In Ratchet and Clank, every enemy drops bolts.  Bolts are used to buy
weapons and ammo from vendors, and also sometimes you need to pay some
bolts to advance through the game, get infobots, or pass through
different areas.  Bolts are also used to upgrade your weapons later on
in the game.
-For the walkthrough, I have provided instructions for getting Gold
Bolts you can get during your first playthrough.  I will mention all
bolts, but will simply state the ones you need to wait to get.
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a.  Planet Veldin
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Once you begin the game, you will see a couple enemies ahead of you.
Just walk up to them and hit them with your wrench, then break open the
bolt boxes here.  After this, continue forward, up the step and onto
the next ledge with more enemies.  Just defeat them with your wrench
also, hop onto the ledge and break open more boxes, and then head back
and to the left, over the bridge.  Once on the other side, you will see
2 more frogs.  The easiest way to get these is throw your wrench if you
can get them in a line.  Crouch with R1, and then hit square.  You will
throw your wrench at them.  If you threw it right you should have
gotten both frogs with one throw.  Now continue forward, grab the
couple bolt boxes, and head up the ledges to the left.  At the top,
kill the frog and jump across.  Ahead of you, you should see 2 more
frogs.  Without jumping over there, throw your wrench at them to kill
them, then jump over and grab the boxes here.  Grab all the boxes and
the nanotech if you need it, then hop up and kill the frog.  You now
have 2 different ways to go.  Head to the right, defeat the 4 frogs by
any means, and then break all the boxes here.  Now, head back and take
the left path here.  These enemies have an electric bolt that they
fire, so just be careful with them.  If they are firing it, it is
pretty hard to run up to them to hit them, so wait till they stop
firing it and then run up and hit them or throw your wrench at them.
Break the boxes here, and then continue on.  Defeat a couple more
electricity guys, and grab the bolt and ammo boxes here.  Head forward,
now there will be about 5 electricity guys.  They are not too hard to
just take your wrench too if you just keep jumping and are good at
dodging, but if you want you can just use your bomb glove to make it a
bit easier.  Once all the enemies are dead grab all the boxes from
around here and continue on to the ship to finish the level.
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b.  Planet Novalis
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-You will need 500 bolts to buy an info-bot on this planet.
The first thing you will want to do is head into the room behind you.
Now the tunnel with the water and platforms, head down the path to the
right of it.  The Pyrocitor is at the vendor, but you do not have
enough bolts for it yet.  Anyway, head down that path to the right,
break the couple boxes there, and cross the lake to the other side.
Break the ammo and bolt boxes here, and then head up to the giant bolt
there, and hold square while facing it to grab onto it.  Now, turn your
joystick counter-clockwise until the door is opened all the way and you
let go of the bolt.  Head inside, break the boxes, and head up the
steps.  There are 3 guys here with pretty short range weapons which can
be easily killed by tossing your wrench at them.  Now, head into the
big lake ahead and dive down into it.  Head through the tunnel in front
of you, follow it around to the right, then come back up to the
surface.  Now jump down to the bottom of the pools to the bottom,
defeat the enemies by any means, and break the boxes here.  Next, turn
to the left.  See the cracked wall there?  Use your bomb glove on it to
reveal a gold bolt and a ton of bolt boxes.  After that, turn the giant
bolt in the middle like you did before.  Head through here, break all
the boxes along the way and back into the start.
Now, head into that tunnel right next to the vendor.  Head up the
ledges here to the top.  Once on top, defeat the 2 enemies here, break
all the boxes, and then look to the left.  You can bounce back and
froth on the walls here to the top for another gold bolt.  Just stand
right next to the left wall, and repeatedly hit X till you are on top.
Now just head forward and to the right for the bolt.  Jump back down
and now climb the ledges here to continue on.  Defeat another enemy,
then jump across the water down there.  Defeat another enemy here, then
break all the boxes.  Then, head to the right and jump onto the rising
platform, ride it to the top and head through the door.  Head to the
right and grab the boxes, then head into the water along the right wall
and climb the steps to the next portion.  After this, head all the way
right and then jump into the water and head up the steps here again to
the end.  Head to the right and break the boxes, then head back left
and jump up the ascending platforms to the top, break the boxes, then
continue right.  Continue to the end for a short cut-scene.  Now, you
need to pay 500 bolts for the info bot.  After that, break the boxes
here, then head down the sewer tube to the right back to the start.
You should be able to buy the pyrocitor now, so go ahead and get it.
Now, take the moving platform to the left of the vendor down.  Just
kill all the enemies with your pyrocitor, then break all the boxes
here.  Next, head up the steps ahead to the left, defeat the enemies
and break the boxes, then head across the bridge.  A short cut-scene of
a bomber bombing the bridge will occur, then just head across the
bridge and defeat the enemies along the way.  Head down the steps, head
to the left and grab the boxes, then head forward and defeat 3 more
cannon enemies.  After that, get out your pyrocitor to defeat a bunch
of small enemies, break the rest of the boxes, then head forward for
another cut-scene and 3 final enemies.  Defeat them for the last cut-
scene and an info bot.  After the scene, break the remaining boxes and
you are done with this level.
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c.  Planet Kerwan
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-You will need 1,000 bolts to buy Clank's heli-pack upgrade on this
planet.
-You will need 1,000 bolts to buy the Swingshot.
Though you will have access to both this planet and Aridia at once, it
is best to do this one first because you can get Clank's copter pack,
as well as the swingshot which is necessary to finish Aradia.  Start by
heading down to the platform to the vendor, grab ammo if you may need
it.  Now, this is a bit tough, but doable without Clanks copter.  Look
down straight ahead of you, over the edge with no path, and you will
see vehicles heading through a tunnel down there.  Jump off the edge
carefully, and hug the platform, and you should land on a ledge.  Now,
using the R3 stick, look below you and you will see a tunnel.  Jump,
and move just a little bit outward, and quickly push joystick back up
to head into the tunnel after you pass the ledge.  You should now be in
a tunnel with a bunch of crates and a gold bolt.  Grab it all, and take
the taxi at the opposite side, which will take you back to the start.
Head to the vendor as you did before and this time, grab the crates
under the bride you crossed to get to the vendor platform and take a
right.
Defeat these enemies by any means, then grab all the crates in this
area.  Head through the opening on the left to defeat a couple more
enemies.  I suggest the bomb glove for area of effect on the small
enemies, or you can use the pyrocitor and simply spin around.  You can
smash the lights around the area for some extra bolts, then continue to
the bridge ahead.  If you have the blaster, use it on the helicopter,
but if you do not, you will need to run past it.  Run forward while
jumping left and right to avoid the fire, and be ready to defeat a few
more enemies at the end of the bridge.  Grab the crates then take the
escalator on the right down, and once again use the bomb glove or the
pyrocitor to defeat the small enemies.  Head right down the path and
just use pyrocitor to demolish any enemies in your path.  Head into the
building and watch the cut-scene.  Afterward you need to have 1.000
bolts for the heli-pack.
After you buy it, head through the newly opened door.  Grab the couple
ammo boxes ahead of you, then follow the directions for the entire
session here, what to do is self-explanatory.  After heading up the
elevator and being required to glide to the platform below, there will
be some baddies down there.  Just have your bomb glove ready to take
them out when you land.  Afterward take the elevator in front of you,
and once at top be ready to kill some more enemies.  Be sure to take
out the spawner ahead of you after you kill the ones already in the
area to prevent more.  Now, watch out for the red mines and head across
the bridge and defeat the enemy there.  Watch out for additional mines
if you need to chase him.  At the other end grab the boxes and head up
the escalator.  Defeat the enemies up top here and head left.  Before
heading on the train to the right, head left again behind the boxes,
grab the ammo crates.  Now, here is a fun part; breaking this wall.
The best way to do it is shoot a bomb glove right in the middle of it,
but you can just use your wrench.  Now, after this, head back to the
top of the escalator, and to your right when facing the train you will
see a lower box stack.  Use your crouch-heli-pack move, and get to the
top of it.  You will see a gold bolt on top of some crates at the other
end of this area.  Fly to the crate stack in front of you, then fly up
to the next one on your top right.  Continue to the next stack in front
of you, then to the one after that.  Hop up, head forward, and jump to
the final stack to get the gold bolt.  Now, hop down and defeat the
enemies with the pyrocitor, and then head back out the way you came in,
move forward and take the train.
During the short scene you will see an info bot in the front of the
train.  Hop across the platforms to the front, defeating the enemies
along the way.  The ride will not end till you are up front.  Once you
get up front the train will arrive at the station.  Start by blowing
the crates to your upper-right and getting the crates in that area,
then head back out and down and head left into the opening at the other
end to grab the info bot.  After watching it, take the elevator to the
bottom, head back to the vendor and buy any ammo you might need, and if
you have not yet, the blaster, and then head forward to the qwark robot
for a cut-scene.
After the scene, you need to complete the fitness course.  Start by
heading up the platforms in front of you to the top, and in front of
you is a spot in the wall with straight sides.  Simply jump to the left
and when you hit the wall, move your stick to the left and jump,and
then when you hop off and hit the right wall, move joystick to the
right and jump once more to make it to the top.  Grab the crates on the
right side, then blow the 2 exploding boxes on the left side and
continue on.  Do this wall the same way you did the last one, hop up
the platforms and head into the green area at the top, now, just jump
to slide down using your wrench.  Continue across the platforms, and
now you will see some platforms ejecting from the wall.  Use careful
timing here, continue to the next set, and keep working your way up.
Use timing when bouncing off the walls to the top, and continue working
your way upward.  Once up top, slide down the next rail to the bottom,
and talk to the fat lady here and buy the swingshot for 1,000 bolts.
Now, use the swingshot on the 2 targets then slide back to the
beginning of the obstacle course.  Now, before you go back to your
ship, do the obstacle course again all the way back to the platform
just before you slide down to buy the swingshot (The big black one).
This time, before sliding down, diagonally from the green circle is an
area with no railing.  Look down and you will see an opening and some
boxes also that are somewhat difficult to see.  Jump forward and glide
down there, break all the boxes and grab the gold bolt here.  Now take
the cab back to your ship, and you are done with this planet.  Now,
head to planet Aridia.  You will need the trespasser from here to
complete the logging planet.
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d.  Planet Aridia
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Once you arrive here, instead of heading forward, head left around your
ships platform and to the right to find Skid McMarx.  Watch the cut-
scene, then head across the platform to the left and the stats will
appear for defeating all the sand sharks.  First of all, head just
straight ahead and to the right a bit.  I strongly recommend the
pyrocitor for this part.  Defeat all sand sharks and the spawner.  You
should now have 49 sand sharks and 6 spawners left.  Head across the
platforms and up to the right, run by the spawner, spin around 1 or 1
and a half times with your pyrocitor to do this area quick.  You should
now have 43 sand sharks and 5 spawners left.  Before heading out, in
the upper right of this area is a chunk of rocks.  Use your bomb glove
on it to reveal an area with some crates and a gold bolt.  Now head
back and this time head down the right path.  Grab the boxes and the
nanotech, then continue on, defeating the sand sharks.  There are 2
waves of them, one on the path right behind the crates, and another a
bit further by the spawner.  After all are defeat here, you should have
21 sand sharks and 4 spawners left.  Head across the bridge to the
right and defeat the sand sharks and the 2 spawners once more.  At this
point you should have 2 sand sharks and 2 spawners left.  Head back
across the bridge and straight, and shortly you will see a stairway on
your right.  Head up this and defeat the 2 spawners, and then the 2
burrowed sand sharks in the center green area, and upon finishing you
will enter a cut-scene and be back at the crashed pod.  Head back to
your ship by heading across the bridge and right, then across another
bridge and right.
Now for the other half of the level.  Head down the path you were
facing when you first entered the level, defeat the sand sharks with
your pyrocitor, and break open the crates here.  Continue forward,
defeat the sand sharks the then the flame thrower guy.  Head right to
defeat 2 more flame throwers, grab the nanotech if need be, then
continue forward and kill the remaining flame thrower.  Head forward
and take the elevator.
There are 2 more tasks to be done this level.  First is find Skid's
agent, and the other is to grab the trespasser.  For now, take the
right path.  Defeat the flame thrower here, and be careful not to fall
off the edge, even though you respawn literally right there, so if you
really want to get yourself killed go ahead.  I really feel pretty
stupid for dying here 3 times while I wrote this.  Anyway, after you
defeat him, head forward and defeat the one on the next platform as
well, suggestibly with the blaster.  Continue across the moving belts
and defeat another flamethrower, then the one on your left, and then
head up and move up the belts.  Blast the baddie at the end, smash the
crates, then take the elevator down, or jump for a quicker journey, and
head right.  Hop the mod, defeat the sand sharks, then break the crates
and if you want, head left and up and defeat all the baddies and TNT
boxes for some extra bolts.  If not, then jump up the wall with the
hands right in front of you.  Ascend the couple of these, then pick a
pipe and continue forward.  Head right and forward to another wall you
can grab, then strafe to the right and hop up.  Grab the crates here
then continue right and head up the wall.  Break the boxes and jump up
to your left, hop the mod, and head for the pod for a cut-scene.
After the scene, head to the left.  You will notice a couple slanted
vents or whatnot heading upward.  There is a gold bolt up here, but you
will need to come back with the magnetic boots when you get them later
on.  Before you teleport back, head back to the platform where you
landed after you jumped up to here.  To your left, you will see a small
metal square platform.  Reach this by flying as much as you can, and
when you land in the mud, continue jumping out and reach this.  Now,
jump onto the land in front of you.  Head all the way left to the dump
truck and grab the gold bolt in the back.  Now, head into the
teleporter on the right of the pod with Skid's agent to go back to your
ship.  Take the path you did to the elevator, and this time head down
the path on your left.
Whip out your swingshot and swing onto the platform in front of you.
Break the boxes, and do so again.  Head left and keep moving forward
and shooting the targets as they appear.  When you get to the platform
with 5 TNT boxes dotted around it, just shoot one and swing on up.
Now, head forward once again and turn left.  Swing twice to reach the
first platform, grab the boxes, then swing right, right again, then
right twice to reach the final platform with some boxes.  Head forward
to grab the trespasser.  I personally find trespasser locks to be one
of the funnest things in the game.  Many people hate them and find them
ridiculously frustrating, but I really like them.  Anyway, look off the
edge on any side.  When you see something that looks like a platform
rotating around, jump down onto it and run toward the center for a gold
bolt.  Use the swingshot to get back up.  Head forward, complete the
tough trespasser lock, then head through the door.  Jump down (ignore
the elevator, its just too slow) and then ascend the steps on your
right.  Keep heading forward and ease left, continuing straight and
jump down in front of you.  Head back to your ship and you are now done
with this planet.  Head to Planet Eudora.
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Get more ammo from the vendor if need be, then head up the steps to
your right to an area with a couple crates.  Now jump down to your left
to get a couple more crates, and then defeat the enemy to your left.
Now head back to your right and defeat the little saw guys and continue
down that path.  When you hit the little mud area before the couple
steps, look to your upper right to see a gold bolt.  To get it, jump
onto the first ledge, and at the very edge on the right, do the crouch-
copter move (R1+X)and right after you jump off the ground head in the
direction of the platform up there and you should grab the egde.  Now
just jump up and grab it.  Head back down and head to the lower area to
the right as you are heading out, defeat the enemy by the big bolt, and
then grab it and turn it to activate the bridge.  Cross the bridge,
defeat the couple enemies here, and then open the crate.  Continue
forward behind the tree to see a wall-bouncer.  Head to the top, defeat
the saw, and turn the bolt to lower some crates and a nanotech.  Now
jump back down and head left, use your pyrocitor on a couple more saw-
guys, then jump up, defeat the enemy here, and turn the bolt to raise
another bridge.  Cross it, break open all the crates, and how up the
ledge.  Defeat some more enemies best with the blaster, then break the
crates and head up the steps to your left.  Defeat many more enemies.
Best weapon of choice here is the blaster due to their range.  After
clearing this area out, head left, defeat another blaster enemy, break
the crates and cross yet another bridge.  In this area it is best to
defeat the enemies first, and then if you want head up on the platforms
to grab all the crates here.  There is an area also ahead of the trees
with more enemies and crates.  After done here head down the left path,
defeat a couple more enemies (Blaster recommended again), and turn the
bolt.  Now head up the ledge, grab the nanotech if you need it, then
jump on the platform for it to raise.  Now fly down, and best idea is
to shoot enemy with blaster while you are in the air.  Defeat the saw
guys, then head up the wall to the left for more crates and a nanotech,
and now head back down and into the building.  Defeat the huge guy,
break the crates, and continue forward.  Fly down to your top right,
and get your blaster ready again.  After defeating the enemies and
getting the crates, head into the building here.  Defeat the final 3
enemies, and grab the awesome suck cannon.  This weapon is sweet, it
sucks smaller enemies in and fires them as missiles.
Head out the building and down the right, defeating the saw guys along
the way.  Using the suck cannon is the easiest way.  If you did not
before, you will now have enough money to buy the Glove of Doom.  This
weapon sends tons of little kamikaze bots at your enemies.  Now head to
the area behind your ship with the trespasser lock.  Complete yet
another touch trespasser lock and continue forward.  There is a lot of
swingshoting to do in this area.  First head forward and fly down to
the platform in front of you.  Now head left and turn the bolt for some
swingshot targets.  Swing across, turn another bolt, and jump across
the platforms here.  Turn yet another bolt for a swingshot target and
once uptop, you have another trespasser lock.  This one you will need
the outermost circle pointing at 9:00 and 11:00, the middle circle
pointing at 6:00, and the inner circle pointing at 8:00.  Head in and
confront the general.  After the cut-scene, smash the crates and head
out to be back to your ship.  You are now done with this planet.
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-Buy the taunter if you have enough bolts (2,500).  I find it pretty
useless against enemies, except that its fun to use it for enemies
behind barriers and watch their stupid asses run into it, but its
awesome to use to break boxes.  Nothing is better then heading into a
room with 30 boxes and just hitting the taunter.
Grab ammo from the vendor if you need it, then head left.  Head down
the steps and use your trespasser on the door to your right.  Have each
circle centered on the bottom, so the outer circle hits the outer 2
targets and 10 and 2 o clock, the middle one hits the next ones in at
11 and 1 o clock, and the inner circle hits the middle target on the
very top at 12.  Head in and hit triangle to send Clank in.
Head forward and jump on the button to activate the elevator.  Head
left and out, then continue forward and navigate the ramp up.  Ease to
your right through the doorway, and defeat a frog here.  Clanks only
attack is a punch with the same button as Ratchet's wrench, but he does
charge forward a bit when you use it so you can use it from a bit
further away.  Break the boxes in front of you, then stop right then.
Do not break the box on your left.  Jump on top of it, break the crates
up here, then hop back down and break it now.  This time head right,
follow the directions gives to glide down to the platform below you.
Head forward and break the crates, then head left, and break some more
crates on the other side of this wall.  Next, continue on down the path
here.  Defeat the frogs with constant attacks of Clank's punched, then
smash the crates in front of you.  Head up on your left, break the
crates here, then head back to the other side.  Be careful here.  Jump
up and carefully navigate down this long path starting on your right.
It gets a bit hard because it is difficult to see where you are going.
Once at the other end, jump up and then jump and grab the ledge.
Strafe right, hop up, then hop up onto the platform on your right.
Don't worry about that gold bolt on your right, you can't get it yet.
Head through the doorway, then head forward and around to the back of
these pipes, break the crate and the nanotech, and you will now see
small glass cases with little robots here.  Break the cases and read
the directions on how to use them.  The commands should hopefully be
pretty self explanatory, just enter is to let them enter a doorway to
open a doorway for yourself.  Head back and get somewhat near the enemy
in front of you.  Select attack and let them attack it, then break the
crates on your left.  If you lost any bots, head back and retrieve them
where they have respawned.  Tell them to follow you and continue
forward.  You can probably just kill the frogs yourself to save time
from having to get any bots again.  Break the crates here then tell the
bots to enter the doorway.  Head through and you now have a new gadget,
the hydrodisplacer.  Head down the newly formed bridge on your right,
and then head back left, up the elevator, and head forward to become
Ratchet again.
Head back past your ship and head through the doorway on the right.
Take the shuttle to the warship.  Once there, head through the right
door, defeat the baddie, and break the crates.  Now, head through the
left doorway.  This is a good opportunity to use the suck cannon.  Whip
it out and start sucking up the frogs.  Once the barrel is full, launch
them all as best as you can at the other frogs, and if you missed any
just suck them up again.  Continue forward and defeat 2 more enemies.
Best to jump a lot here to avoid the flame waves.  Break the crates at
the end and head through the door behind them.  Don't jump down here,
cause its hard to beat them head on.  Instead, equip your blaster, go
into first person mode and just shoot them this way with your blaster.
Now, grab all the crates around here, then press the big red shiny
button.  You now got 45 seconds to get out of here.  It really is not
that hard, just head forward, use pyrocitor on the 2 big enemies here,
then when you come to the frogs, do the same.  Continue forward, jump
the gas vents shooting the baddie here along the way to stall him, then
head out and you are off the ship (If you actually spent all that time
without pausing reading this, you're probably screwed, so for next
time, just run).
Head forward and grab the info-bot.  Now, continue forward.  I don't
know what the hell these things are called, so I will just call them
things.  Head forward and shoot the "thing" to the left of the door to
open it and continue forward.  Avoid the gas vents, and then whip out
your suck cannon.  I count 15 frogs here, so actually pyrocitor if
probably better, but suck cannon works fine, and besides that, it so
much more hella funner.  Just suck up 5, run back while shooting them
out, then suck up 5 more and repeat.  Now head forward and defeat the
enemy here with your blaster, then if you have your taunter, whip it
out and use it, and just sit back and watch the stupid ass run into the
barrier (You'll have good fun with the taunter :)).  Now break the
things and continue forward.  Be ready to kill 6 more frogs, just use
suck cannon and use a missile on the last one.  A great opportunity to
use your taunter is coming up.  Continue forward, and before heading
left use your trespasser here.  Its pretty easy: The outer circle needs
to be hitting the targets at 6 and 11 o clock, the middle circle is
just blockers, have them at 9, 2, and 4 o clock, and the inner circle
needs to be hitting targets at 8 and 1 o clock.  Before you break one
damn box, head right into the middle, defeat the frogs from the 3 boxes
here, then whip out your taunter and use it.  It is just so awesome
hearing all the boxes breaking one by one here.  Head back and to your
left, and onto the platform here.  Head right past the gas vents if you
want the crates.  I really don't have a good strategy for getting past
here without getting hit, just jump like mad and pray for luck.  After
you get those crates head down the left path.  Use timing when jumping
up these platforms to avoid the gas vents.  Its best to grab the ledge
and then jump up right before the vent goes off.  Once at top break the
crates for bolts, ammo, and 2 nanotech which you probably need.  Turn
right, hit the swingshot target, then defeat the baddie here.  Break
the crates (beware of frogs) and then continue through the door.  After
you break each thing, be ready to fit one of those giant annoying
enemies in the glass case.  Just stay away from them and use the
blaster, because melee combat is kind of hard.  Now continue forward
and defeat some more frogs.  Watch out for the ones that come down from
the ceiling.  Continue through here to the end, jump up, and use your
blaster on another enemy.  Continue forward, get more ammo if you need
it from the vendor, and then use your suck cannon on the frogs, and
fire the missiles at the huge guys.  Grab all the crates from the
little pockets in here.  On your right side, top level, second from the
left is a pocket that leads to a room with a gold bolt.  Defeat the
frogs and smash the crates here, grab it, and then head back out.  Jump
down, and before breaking the things, use your taunter in front of the
barrier.  Now hit the things, head through and defeat the remaining
enemy in here, and head to your left, defeat the frogs, and use your
taunter again.  Head back and break the thing in the middle by throwing
your wrench at it (crouch and attack) and then jump to the platform on
your left.  Use your taunter once again and then break this barrier and
continue on.  Yet again, use your taunter and release the barrier.
Grab the nanotech and head through the doorway on your left.  Boss
time.
Boss: Nebula Queen
Difficulty: 3/10
This boss is pretty easy.  Play evasively and use your blaster.  Use
your blaster as she charges as you, and when she backs up to attack,
head right.  Use your blaster once more, and when she turns and backs
to attack, move right again.  Repeat this process till she releases
some frogs.  Suck them up with the suck cannon and shoot the missiles
at her.  If you do this right you should get the second wave of
enemies, 2 of those giant annoying ones, before the frogs are defeated.
At this point, continue sucking up frogs and then focus missiles on
these things.  If you run out before they are defeated just whip out
your blaster again and finish them off.  Now, finish off the queen with
the same tactic, and she should die in no time.
Note:  I got a suggested strategy from someone saying it is easiest to
use 2-3 gloves of doom right off the bat, use the pyrocitor on the
small frogs, then use more gloves of doom.  Then for the last 2 enemies
use glove of doom like mad.  Haven't tried this myself, but it sounds
like a good tactic.  Thanks to Alex Johannes for this strategy, and
also for alerting me I said the guide would be updated tomorrow 7
months ago(I will get around to it eventually, need to finish this as
well as my Kingdom Hearts 2 guide).
After the battle, break all the boxes here, and then head through the
open doorway.  After talking to the guy here, you need to pay 2,000
bolts for the boots, which you should have no problem.  Jump onto the
grindrail to head back to your ship, and you are now done with this
planet.
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g.  Planet Rilgar
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-You will need 4,000 bolts to bribe a guard for an infobot.
Upon arrival here, you are be able to purchase the mine glove from the
vendor for 7,500 bolts, but probably do not have enough bolts yet.
Even if you do, it is best not to buy it yet, you will need 4,000 to
bribe the guard at the end of the first challenge.  Best to get the
annoying part over with first before you move on to the hoverboard
race.  However, in this whole section you have no enemies besides a few
amoebas on the rather annoying challenge your about to do.  Jump onto
the platform to your left with the taxi flag on it, then onto the
floating platform in the water and use the 2 swingshot targets to reach
the other side.  If you fall into the water, get out quick before you
get eaten by the shark.  Once on the other side, hop into the entryway
and take the elevator down.  Get out your hydrodisplacer.  Start by
draining the first pool, then hop down and up the platforms in the
upper left corner.  Head forward and use the hydrodisplacer once again
to reach the tunnel.  Smash the grates with your wrench and continue
forward.  For this one, start by draining the pool, then hop onto the
tunnel down on your right and smash the grates here.  Next, head back
up and fill the pool again, then swim back through the tunnel.  Swim
up, jump onto the platform and smash all the crates, then head down the
water tunnel around this circle.  Once at the bottom. Press the button
and get ready to bolt.
A tip for this next part.  Whenever you have a chance, use the R1+X to
use your pack and jet you forward to buy some time.  You can do this
before the ramp after the 4 platforms in the beginning, then on the top
once (Be careful not to run off the ledge), then after jumping the
platforms in the water, use it as much as you can in this series of
ramps.  Then again, after swimming to the other side, use it after you
get to the top of the platform by climbing the ledge,
This is all about speed.  Run forward, and then jump onto the first
platform using the double jump (Be sure not to use the helipack for it
will slow you down) and then jump to each additional platform using
only single jumps to gain time.  Run up the ramp on the left at the
top, and once again use single jumps to hop up the 2 steps in front of
you.  Simply jump over the amoebas and avoid fighting them, and for the
final one double jump to make it to the platform in the water.
Continue to the next platform, and then keep running.  If the water is
up to you and slowing you down, keep jumping and moving forward to try
to get out of it.  Now for this next part, you need to get into the
water (By the way, if the water is already at the top of the ramp while
you are, you are probably screwed).  Jump forward before diving in and
then dive in and swim down, around the corner, and head up quickly
before the water reaches the top.  Jump up the ledges, head forward
past the amoeba, and use the helipack R1+X combo to reach this first
platform, then just hop down to the second platform. Use the R1+X combo
again to reach the end, and then run forward as far as you can then
dive into the water.  For this last part you need to dive underwater
once more, then swim quickly to the other side and ascend the final
tunnel to the top.  Head forward and take the elevator.
Once at the top, head forward to talk to the guard.  After paying him
4,000 bolts which you should have as long as you didn't buy the mine
glove, you get the infobot for Umbris.  Take the taxi back to your
ship.
Now, take the right path.  Jump onto the floating platform and jump up
and press the button.  Grab the ammo crates, then whip out your
blaster.  Defeat the first enemy however, then use your blaster at
range to take out the tank.  Head in and break the crates in the
corner, then head left and jump onto the floating platform.  Continue
forward and press the button.  Defeat the 4 enemies however, but the
blaster works pretty well here.  For the amoebas however, the pyrocitor
is always the best choice.  Hit the big one first to make 2 smaller
onces.  Do a quick semi circle while shooting to break each of them
down, then repeat.  This works best with rooms full of lots of big
amoebas, but if you get surrounded just do a whole circle.  Head
forward and activate the bridge.  Use your blaster on these enemies
here, then head right and take the elevator.  Defeat the amoeba and
push the button here to open the gate to the taxi which lets you
continue the level.  Do you notice how damn many buttons this level
has?  Anyway, you will need to defeat a few enemies before taking the
taxi.
Once off the taxi, use your blaster to defeat some more enemies and a
tank.  You can jump on top of the sewer lids to reach platforms with
some bolt crates.  Before moving on head to the left of the area and
talk to the guy here to learn about the R.Y.N.O. which is a pretty
sweet weapon, but I'll let you find out all about it when you buy it,
cause if you're like me you'd rather be surprised when you get it
instead of finding out right away, which is the same for like rewards
at the end of a game.  After you are done getting the crates here head
to the upper left and press the button to activate the elevator, defeat
the couple enemies then take the elevator.  Start by circling around
this room grabbing all the boxes, then jump down in the middle, use the
pyrocitor on the amoebas, then hit yet another button.  Keep your
pyrocitor out and defeat the 9 enemies than come at you.  Head through
the door to the left of the ladder for another elevator into an area
with lotza lazers.  Look to your left and see the gold bolt.  By the
way, there is no way to deactivate those lasers, and no way past them,
but you can still get that bolt during this runthrough; I'll tell you
in a second.  Hit the button to deactivate the lasers, to your right,
then hit the next one to deactivate the ones leading to the enemies in
the corner.  Grab the boxes and hit the button to deactivate the next
lasers, then hit the next one to fight the amoebas.  By this time, I'm
getting too damn tired of saying hit the button every time for the
lasers, so from now on im just gonna say HTB.  After defeating the
amoebas HTB to deactivate the L's to your left, then HTB to deactivate
the L's to your right, then HTB to get out.  Jump onto that sewer lid
and kill the tank, then turn around and look back toward the L field.
When it rises up, jump to that little blue corner piece platform there.
Simply hop across them to reach the opposite corner, then hop down for
the Gold bolt.  Actually, you can just run across, which is probably
easier, but whatever.  You can also hit that button at the end to
defeat the rest of the enemies, but unless you need bolts I see it to
be nothing more than a waste of time.  Now, jump back onto that sewer
lid and onto the platform, defeat the tank, break the boxes, then
continue and take the E.  Once at top, talk to the lady in the middle
and after the cut-scene you can do the hoverboard race.
Challenge: Hoverboard race
Difficulty: 6/10
Since writing a full walkthrough would be a waste of my time and yours,
since this is all about experience, ill just say hit every turbo pad,
and cut the corners.  Oh, and be sure not to hit TNT boxes.  Heres a
few tips.
-Take the first turbo pad, swerve left, take the ramp but DO NOT JUMP.
Unless you are without turbo, in which case if you don't jump your
screwed.  Just ride it out, jump at the end for turbo.
-On the third corner, be sure to be on the upper platforms, and when
you hit the turbo, swerve right and aim straight for that turbo ring.
-After that, be sure to land on the right ramp for the turbo ring, then
swerve down and hit the ramp through the boxes.
-After getting the turbo ring or pad or both, cut the corner with the
amoebas.
Once you learn the course pretty well, you should have turbo almost the
entire time.
That's all I can do to help, good luck!
Once you win the race, you get a zoomerator 3000, which gives you turbo
for stunts in your next hover board race.  That's right, your next
hoverboard race!  That one REALLY sucks.
Take the cab back to your ship and you are done with this level.
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h.  Planet Umbris
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Buy the mine glove if you haven't already if you want it, break the
crates around your ship, then head forward and use the 2 swingshot
targets.  After landing, smash the crates, but be sure to stay clear of
the spread bomb shooter.  Use your blaster on it then continue across
the bridge on your right.  Defeat another one of these, then break the
crates off to the right of this area.  Be careful before heading
forward of the ground machine gun; you cannot destroy it.  Shooting it
makes it turn off for about 5 seconds before it starts again, and you
will be in its firing range before you can shoot with your blaster.
Just strafe left and right while jumping to avoid it, then shoot it
with your blaster when in range and run past quickly.  Ascend the
ledges and watch out for the spike ball around the corner.  Continue
around, smash the crates, and be ready to kill all the spike balls
coming through the bridge.  The easiest way is to use the blaster and
just shoot when the first one starts heading down the bridge.  Keep
shooting small bursts till they are all dead, then continue to the end
of the bridge, and from here defeat both the bomb launchers.  Head of
the stairs and be ready for the 2 spike balls at the top.  After
defeating them head down the bridge on the right.  The spike balls here
do not follow down the bridge, so just shoot them with the blaster
while off the bridge to avoid drawing them open.  Hit the 3 buttons in
front of the door to open it.  This is pretty much just a sample of the
3 button system which you will also encounter ahead a few times.  If
you are running out of blaster ammo, switch to your bomb glove.  Hit
the 3 targets here and head through the door near the top.  Get across
this bridge quickly because it collapses, and watch the gap before the
last platform, be sure to jump it.  Get the boxes here then head left,
once again run quick and watch out for the gaps.  There is one a bit
after midway and before the end.  Head left around the barbed wire and
smash the crates, then head right but watch out for the machine gun.
You are safe from it if you are on the very right ledge here.  Break
the crates then head forward and left, and then continue forward and
right to the tnt and bolt crates on the right side.  Smash them, then
run left, behind the machine gun, then use the first swingshot target,
be sure to land or you will not shoot the other swingshot before you
sink into the water, then shoot the other one.  There is a gold bolt in
the building to your right.  To get it, head toward the building, and
look right.  You should see a ledge with a button.  Jump to it, hit the
button, run around to the second button, then jump onto the last