Not too surprised by the result - not only is it one of the few bosses that gives you respawnning ammo crates instead of expecting you to use the wrench if you run out of ammo, it is also the last boss before it becomes possible to obtain the RYNO V, so they are understandably given a ridiculous amount of health on Hardcore - I am not even sure if it is POSSIBLE to bring enough ammo to win without needing more from a crate, and maxxing out your weapons for the fight is surprisingly practical - Insomniac are actually kind to the player in Hardcore in some ways, they made normal enemies give way more weapon exp when you kill them, and IIRC they also give more bolts. Reminder that the RYNO V is a ridiculous weapon - not only does it have high damage relative to other RYNO weapons, if you own it it changes the rules for ammo crates - they ignore all other weapons and instead respawn once the RYNO V is low on ammo, even if you own every other weapon and they all have full ammo.
I couldn't have said it better. The Exp. Rate goes up drastically when entering Gimlick Valley to fight Argos. Oh, and you are absolutely right, the RYNO V is one of the best RaC weapons of all time. Plus, let's never forget the awesome music that plays!
Omg. I can only imagine how happy and mad you must have felt when you figured out you didn’t have to do the nefarious space station fights since the swing shot targets were already there. I relate a lot to that feeling haha. Great video!
@@obscurevideogameruns6250 haha I know the feeling. I used to beat all of the space ship missions in Going Commando to then realize years later that we only need to complete the first mission to progress the game. Though your situation was a lot worse
45:23 Great video, something so random I noticed...they use the British/Canadian spelling of "armour" instead of the American spelling "armor" and I've never noticed this until now. Like in England/Canada you'd say "colour" instead of "color", it's so weird seeing this in a game made in America. Great job on the wrench challenge, you're going to blow up if you keep at it. I never liked the second trilogy of Ratchet games myself, but it's great to see someone so passionate about this game.
14:23 "And then... It exploded" You know why I like this video? It's a perfect example of the "there always is a way" mentality I love it. I'll the example you set here as another log to throw into the fire, another bit of motivation to keep working on a project of mine, a dream of mine
I freaking loved the wrench in this game because you could throw it so smoothly while moving. Probably one of my favorite games in the series excluding nostalgia. My inbox is flooded with R&C and I definitely need to have a marathon of the whole series at some point cause it's been a while
21:20 - ...what are you talking about? Vendors only restored your health in Tools of Destruction and you didn't even need to buy anything. Just talk to a vendor and that's it.
@@obscurevideogameruns6250 Adding a timer or something I think that could make it more interesting. Btw, are u planning on doing more Ratchet and Clank runs?
@@obscurevideogameruns6250 That's extremely insane, I'm really looking forward to that, just thinking in how much health the final enemies have make question how plausible it is
Love your stuff, though I was pondering "When was he going to notice?" In the Dr. Nefarious ship hallway about the slingshot targets. Had a bit of a grin.
More than likely the game expects the Argorians to be in a certain spot by the time it’s animation should’ve ended, but the time bombs where actually for cut content so their interactions aren’t necessarily coded into the game and instead due to the expected positioning and the actual positioning being different the game assumes the Argorian is glitched and deletes it.
This dude deserves more subs (when i first read the title i was like: wait...'Hardcore mode' ? cuz i never did an "New game" after i beated my first one
I can understand not being willing to complete the run, but you've proven it's possible to hit phase 2 Argos without getting hit - unreliable, but possible. Which of course means that the fight is theoretically possible at that point, just unreasonably difficult.
Nope! Phase 2 is INSANELY hard to beat, but it is litterally impossible to do damage to Argos in Phase 3 with only the wrench. And also with guns, or you have to get insane luck with Negotiator rockets spawn. Which I never got in the entire afternoon I've battled Argos
I would’ve been mind blowed if you would have actually beat it on hardcore difficulty with only the wrench 🔧 I know this took you a very long time to make and I really appreciate you making this video it sucks to see the run end right there especially how close you were to the end but at the end of the day still great run
You should try beating the ghost busters game with only the proton stream and no upgrades on the hardest difficulty, I am about to attempt a run myself because I was curious about it and no videos have been made for it, not to mention your video was pretty sick
Oh believe me you are definitely glad you did not try vorselon on hardcore wrench only. I tried it except made it harder by doing it on challenge mode in hardcore. He kills you in like 6 or 7 hits with thr max armor which may not seem that bad. Until you realize how little damage the wrench actually does and how fast he throws his attacks at you. I would consider the fight basically impossible. Even if someone was to make up a strategy it would take who knows how long to actually beat him. And to make matters worse when you get him to half health he cuts the arena into 4 quarters which will damage you if you touch which makes it even harder. If someone were to beat vorselon on hardcore challenge mode with only the wrench then. I don't know what I would think, the idea of it is so conceptually impossible. I'm not even sure if a bot can beat it. And even then there would be one more challenge to add to the fight. Doing it without getting hit while only using the wrench. That right there is just the definition of impossible. Anyway sorry about my rant therex great video I was always wondering when someone would try a hardcore wrench only run. Great work.
Honestly, even if you'd gotten past Argos, Nefarious and Azimuth would have been utter hell with how fast they move and how much health they have. Vorselon 3 would have been nearly impossible too, considering you can dump a V5 RYNO into him and barely strip half his HP.
It's tough man, I do have a followup video on my channel where I try to best this save file with lvl 1 weapons. If thats the standard, I really do believe the final three bosses to be impossible with only the wrench
Bro, just use lockstafe (shooter controls) and you can aim your wrench throws. Also for someone who knows everything about this game, you didn't know you can't get the shield until later in the game?
Nice try man. The A Crack in Time is quite difficult with only the wrench Man if possible try the Original Trilogy of the Ratchet and Clank Series. It's a good challenge too
bruh i remember that hydra tank thing in a demo for this before it was public and i found it insanely easy to beat using the wrench yet the people i watch try it were just getting slapped acrossed the face i guess it helps when i do hard challanges as well like exterminated dif with no weps above lvl 10
Ok you stole an idea I had several years ago and made it even more masochistic. I was thinking about completing the game with only unmodified Constructo Pistol and Negotiator - the run with no additional weapons. Only what you get you can use, no bought weapons, only story missions, only what's necessary to complete the game with and thus, no armor outside the default Holoflux one.
@@obscurevideogameruns6250 Hm...perhaps that could be possible. If I didn't suck at video editing...but I can always stream that as a challenge or record raw footage and give someone else the "fun in editing it".
Good video, one problem I have with it though is that you keep talking about sections of the game that are not very hard to beat with wrench only. You should only put in the video things that are actually interesting. This would also make the video a lot shorter.
No offence to him, English is a very stupid language and this is coming from a native English speaker, but its very obvious that english isnt this guys first language im not saying hes doing a bad job, as long as i can understand you I don't care how bad your english is. All im saying is its obvious nevermind Very impressive run nonetheless
FALSE! CLICKBAIT! CANCELLED! THE HEADER SAYS IT'S RATCHET AND CLANK: A CRACK IN TIME, BUT IT'S RATCHET AND CLANK FUTURE: A CRACK IN TIME! Apart from that, you may rival VG Myths.
Selling my ps 2 and 3 was a big mistake. I cant access my chilldhood games like every R&C game, crash bandicoot and rayman origins:(. Btw you have a lot of patience good Job man :D
OK. this is underrated, AWESOME vid. imma do a RaC2 Run.
Enjoy! It's a great game!
Not too surprised by the result - not only is it one of the few bosses that gives you respawnning ammo crates instead of expecting you to use the wrench if you run out of ammo, it is also the last boss before it becomes possible to obtain the RYNO V, so they are understandably given a ridiculous amount of health on Hardcore - I am not even sure if it is POSSIBLE to bring enough ammo to win without needing more from a crate, and maxxing out your weapons for the fight is surprisingly practical - Insomniac are actually kind to the player in Hardcore in some ways, they made normal enemies give way more weapon exp when you kill them, and IIRC they also give more bolts.
Reminder that the RYNO V is a ridiculous weapon - not only does it have high damage relative to other RYNO weapons, if you own it it changes the rules for ammo crates - they ignore all other weapons and instead respawn once the RYNO V is low on ammo, even if you own every other weapon and they all have full ammo.
I couldn't have said it better. The Exp. Rate goes up drastically when entering Gimlick Valley to fight Argos. Oh, and you are absolutely right, the RYNO V is one of the best RaC weapons of all time. Plus, let's never forget the awesome music that plays!
Its nice to encounter a fellow Crack in Time activist. Ive beaten it 15 times myself and honestly i'll probably do it again after seeing this lmao
Crack in time is Genuinely one of my favorite games in the series
Samw
Omg. I can only imagine how happy and mad you must have felt when you figured out you didn’t have to do the nefarious space station fights since the swing shot targets were already there. I relate a lot to that feeling haha. Great video!
You described it perfectly in this comment hahaha
@@obscurevideogameruns6250 haha I know the feeling. I used to beat all of the space ship missions in Going Commando to then realize years later that we only need to complete the first mission to progress the game. Though your situation was a lot worse
youtube recommed brought me here and im not disappointed
I beat this game multiple times as a kid, and I never knew about the freezing mechanic against Vorselon. That's pretty neat
I got more people who didn't know that. That is actually very interesting
Childhood gaming
For each fight ? What about end of game fight ?
45:23 Great video, something so random I noticed...they use the British/Canadian spelling of "armour" instead of the American spelling "armor" and I've never noticed this until now. Like in England/Canada you'd say "colour" instead of "color", it's so weird seeing this in a game made in America. Great job on the wrench challenge, you're going to blow up if you keep at it. I never liked the second trilogy of Ratchet games myself, but it's great to see someone so passionate about this game.
The PAL (European) version of the game uses British/Canadian spellings, while the NTSC (American) version uses American spellings.
It's only America that spells the words* without the u. Australia and New Zealand also use the u.
14:23 "And then... It exploded"
You know why I like this video? It's a perfect example of the "there always is a way" mentality
I love it. I'll the example you set here as another log to throw into the fire, another bit of motivation to keep working on a project of mine, a dream of mine
Yes, keep working on that project mate. You can do it!
I freaking loved the wrench in this game because you could throw it so smoothly while moving. Probably one of my favorite games in the series excluding nostalgia. My inbox is flooded with R&C and I definitely need to have a marathon of the whole series at some point cause it's been a while
Go for it, you'll have a great time!
21:20 - ...what are you talking about?
Vendors only restored your health in Tools of Destruction and you didn't even need to buy anything. Just talk to a vendor and that's it.
TH-cam have me this great video! You deserve more subs!
I love your commentary! And I think great comedic timing on your jokes, which makes the video really fun to watch!
Also, a run like this is just, super impressive in general
@@TheShowCrow_Main_Channel Thank you! Really appreciate that!
Kind of sad,but it was fun to watch none the less, great video!
Underrated! Good job buddy!!
Watched both your wrench only runs in full and I enjoyed it so much, you deserve so many more views and subs! Keep it up
Really good video, this surely took a lot of time and effort of editing, and I don't wanna even think about the time u spent playing. I'm amazed
I should really count in game hours in a run🤔 should be fun to make a list of how many hours my runs take (spoiler: it's a lot)
@@obscurevideogameruns6250 Adding a timer or something I think that could make it more interesting. Btw, are u planning on doing more Ratchet and Clank runs?
Currently recording Can You Beat Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction with only the wrench?
@@obscurevideogameruns6250 That's extremely insane, I'm really looking forward to that, just thinking in how much health the final enemies have make question how plausible it is
@@fernandogomez8030 It's hell for me and amazing for you to watch
This was my favorite child hood game always went over to play on my aunts ps2
do you mean one of the first 4 games? this one is ps3 exclusive if you ignore PSnow
@@southpenguinjay110im about to blow your mind, theres 6 for the ps2.
Love your stuff, though I was pondering "When was he going to notice?" In the Dr. Nefarious ship hallway about the slingshot targets. Had a bit of a grin.
😂😂😂
I didn't even notice them either lol
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I love Crack in Time! Definitely my fav RaC game, though I'm also enjoying Rifts Apart so far (haven't finished it yet so can't judge it yet)
You have great taste my friend
Holy shit, 2.4k views now, Wow! Great Job bro
More than likely the game expects the Argorians to be in a certain spot by the time it’s animation should’ve ended, but the time bombs where actually for cut content so their interactions aren’t necessarily coded into the game and instead due to the expected positioning and the actual positioning being different the game assumes the Argorian is glitched and deletes it.
This dude deserves more subs (when i first read the title i was like: wait...'Hardcore mode' ? cuz i never did an "New game" after i beated my first one
Just seen 10 seconds of the video but I know this Is going to be fire ,you got a new sub ! Then imma go watch your other videos hahah
You should've collected more zoni earlier on since they boost your nanotech experience and give your ship bonus health
Right, didn't think about that. Had my mind set on difficult bosses and other obscure stuff
I can understand not being willing to complete the run, but you've proven it's possible to hit phase 2 Argos without getting hit - unreliable, but possible.
Which of course means that the fight is theoretically possible at that point, just unreasonably difficult.
Nope! Phase 2 is INSANELY hard to beat, but it is litterally impossible to do damage to Argos in Phase 3 with only the wrench. And also with guns, or you have to get insane luck with Negotiator rockets spawn. Which I never got in the entire afternoon I've battled Argos
@@obscurevideogameruns6250 Fair enough, I didn't realise that.
I would’ve been mind blowed if you would have actually beat it on hardcore difficulty with only the wrench 🔧 I know this took you a very long time to make and I really appreciate you making this video it sucks to see the run end right there especially how close you were to the end but at the end of the day still great run
Thanks man! Glad you enjoyed!
I assume this was inspired by channels like mitten squad. I think you pulled it off pretty damn well. I love long videos like these.
huh, I didn't know you could freeze vorcelon like that
Defeat Azimuth with only a wrench? Challenge accepted. Time to hate myself for the next hour
I miss the Wheels of Carnage 😩 I had too many hours in this game
This is quite an interesting run! Awesome job!
You should try beating the ghost busters game with only the proton stream and no upgrades on the hardest difficulty, I am about to attempt a run myself because I was curious about it and no videos have been made for it, not to mention your video was pretty sick
Oh believe me you are definitely glad you did not try vorselon on hardcore wrench only. I tried it except made it harder by doing it on challenge mode in hardcore. He kills you in like 6 or 7 hits with thr max armor which may not seem that bad. Until you realize how little damage the wrench actually does and how fast he throws his attacks at you. I would consider the fight basically impossible. Even if someone was to make up a strategy it would take who knows how long to actually beat him. And to make matters worse when you get him to half health he cuts the arena into 4 quarters which will damage you if you touch which makes it even harder. If someone were to beat vorselon on hardcore challenge mode with only the wrench then. I don't know what I would think, the idea of it is so conceptually impossible. I'm not even sure if a bot can beat it. And even then there would be one more challenge to add to the fight. Doing it without getting hit while only using the wrench. That right there is just the definition of impossible. Anyway sorry about my rant therex great video I was always wondering when someone would try a hardcore wrench only run. Great work.
Loved reading this!😍😂 thanks man!
@@obscurevideogameruns6250 no problem
I wanted to be one of those "this is literally a speedrun category" people, but both submitted runs are on casual difficulty, so I guess it isn't!
Amazing video!
Damn, nice run!
It's sad that you didn't get to finish this game with the Wrench!
I agree! Are there other A Crack in Time challenges you'd like to see completed?
All time best ratchet and clank game. I wish they made more like it.
I agree! It's time
@@obscurevideogameruns6250 also think time to come up with someone other dr nefarious as villain also. I really liked emperor T actually
So fucking underrated, I loved that video!
Honestly, even if you'd gotten past Argos, Nefarious and Azimuth would have been utter hell with how fast they move and how much health they have. Vorselon 3 would have been nearly impossible too, considering you can dump a V5 RYNO into him and barely strip half his HP.
It's tough man, I do have a followup video on my channel where I try to best this save file with lvl 1 weapons. If thats the standard, I really do believe the final three bosses to be impossible with only the wrench
Bro, just use lockstafe (shooter controls) and you can aim your wrench throws.
Also for someone who knows everything about this game, you didn't know you can't get the shield until later in the game?
"Dodged a bullet there"
*dies from bullet
Nice try man. The A Crack in Time is quite difficult with only the wrench
Man if possible try the Original Trilogy of the Ratchet and Clank Series. It's a good challenge too
Just started recording Tools of Destruction Wrench only! :)
@@obscurevideogameruns6250 Oh nice. Good luck man and keep the good work
Cool
bruh i remember that hydra tank thing in a demo for this before it was public and i found it insanely easy to beat using the wrench yet the people i watch try it were just getting slapped acrossed the face i guess it helps when i do hard challanges as well like exterminated dif with no weps above lvl 10
by far the best rachet and clank game
Great Video, keep up the good work. Maybe speed up the introduction and cut faster to the video itself.
Good tip, thanks man!
You know, is a missile from ratchet's ship really that different than throwing a wrench?
You might as well just be firing wrenches.
😂😂
Gamechamp3000 would be proud
There are speed runs doing the game wrench only... but those aren't on hardcore. So normally yes but on hardcore no.
can't you TAS Argos boss with wrench?
Very nice video. Is your mother tongue Dutch? The accent sounds very familiar :D
Yes, I'm Dutch!
@@obscurevideogameruns6250 Aah my recognition of our accent was correct! Gotta support my fellow flemish/dutchman, subbed!
I have done this. But Hardcore NG+ is completely impossible wrench only
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@@obscurevideogameruns6250 Not impossible, have done it -- although Lord Vorselon (last encouter after Azimuth) is impossible NG+ Wrench only
epic vid
Dude...... you must be some kind of masochist 😅
😂
why was lord vorselon frozen? 27:30
They pulled out the versa-fuse which made the room freeze.
Ok you stole an idea I had several years ago and made it even more masochistic.
I was thinking about completing the game with only unmodified Constructo Pistol and Negotiator - the run with no additional weapons.
Only what you get you can use, no bought weapons, only story missions, only what's necessary to complete the game with and thus, no armor outside the default Holoflux one.
Should be a fun run!
@@obscurevideogameruns6250 Hm...perhaps that could be possible. If I didn't suck at video editing...but I can always stream that as a challenge or record raw footage and give someone else the "fun in editing it".
yo great job man and only 1.6k views??
Hahaha, I'm a small channel. Will release a Tools of Destruction run within one week so stay tuned for that!
@@obscurevideogameruns6250 have you seen the video on tealgamemaster, he did wrench only run in crank at time. Maybe he got passed Argos
He was your father's accountant
😂😂😂
YOU'RE NO WRENCH MASTER!
Why the hate
@@CIA-ks6jz I was expecting TealGameMaster to have been bested! He could only defeat the boss on Easy!
heyy obscure i have a video of how to beat argos wrench only on hardcore dificulty, i hope u find it interesting
Just saw the video. Thats really impressive bro
@@obscurevideogameruns6250 Thankss maan i recorded cause i watched ur last video. Really appreciate it :)
Where are you from? cool accent
The Netherlands
Good video, one problem I have with it though is that you keep talking about sections of the game that are not very hard to beat with wrench only. You should only put in the video things that are actually interesting. This would also make the video a lot shorter.
No offence to him, English is a very stupid language and this is coming from a native English speaker,
but its very obvious that english isnt this guys first language
im not saying hes doing a bad job, as long as i can understand you I don't care how bad your english is. All im saying is its obvious
nevermind
Very impressive run nonetheless
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38:47 did you seriously make a rape joke?
Felt pretty bad about that after making the video. I shouldn't have done that. Will never happen again.
like
Looks like a skill issue to me
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Tealgamemaster did this
Not on Hardcore, which is totally different :)
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FALSE! CLICKBAIT! CANCELLED! THE HEADER SAYS IT'S RATCHET AND CLANK: A CRACK IN TIME, BUT IT'S RATCHET AND CLANK FUTURE: A CRACK IN TIME!
Apart from that, you may rival VG Myths.
Bro no hate I am from the Netherlands aswell and the accent here is so ugly I ain’t gonna listen to that
Selling my ps 2 and 3 was a big mistake. I cant access my chilldhood games like every R&C game, crash bandicoot and rayman origins:(. Btw you have a lot of patience good Job man :D
Yikes, hope you find some way to play them!