
Now, Ratchet & Clank are back in a dimension-hopping adventure that’s bigger and more ambitious than any its anthropomorphic hero duo have been through before.
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And while both series would go on to have success in the 2000s, Ratchet & Clank was the bigger winner, eventually spawning multiple sequels, a whole series of side stories, and even a full-length animated kids movie. Jak and Daxter targeted teens and young adults with a look that was edgier than most of its peers, but Ratchet & Clank proved that adorable anthropomorphic heroes would never go out of style. After Sony’s marsupial mascot exchanged Sony exclusivity for multi-platform mediocrity in early 2000, the Japanese console maker turned to two mascot platformers to fill the bandicoot-shaped hole he left behind: Jak and Daxter and Ratchet & Clank.
