PrinceWatercress plays Ratchet and Clank - Part 30 of 38

Now for the hardest Skill Point and Gold Bolt in the game.

Also, sorry about the forced widescreen in 4:3; this happened because I picked "Fit to Screen" and not "Stretch To Screen" in OBS while switching from settings for a BBC Micro game to a PlayStation 2 game.

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We still have one more Skill Point and one more Gold Bolt in Oltanis.

For the Skill Point, you'll want to shoot out all of the globes on the street lights. Interestingly, if you are near a street light when you shoot the globe out, you'll get some Bolts out of it. Most of them are near the start, while some more of them will be located in the upper city, which you can use the transporter to get to.

The grapple points above the moving platforms are the easiest to get to; if you hold the Circle button to latch on to one, you'll reach it no matter what.

To get past the one part with the four ships with the spotlights, run between the spotlights while going counter-clockwise around the room.

Near the end of this path, you'll find the Morpho-Ray atop a platform that you have to climb to the top of. This has infinite ammo and can turn any enemy you aim it at into a chicken, assuming you target an enemy and fire the beam at it for long enough. Not surprisingly, you'll be using it for a Skill Point or two. From here, you can go back to your ship, and this triggers a cutscene where a missile destroys the statue near the start, revealing a switch that activates a platform. This will take you to the last Gold Bolt.

Here, your Swingshot skills will be put to the ultimate test. You'll need to pay attention and look around for the Versa-Targets, as some of them will be underneath ships that fly around and you'll need to time stuff, be alert, and latch onto said ship Versa-Targets a second time just to ensure you make it to where you need to go. Along the way, you'll find more street lights, and you'll have to go through this Swingshot course to destroy all the globes on all the street lamps for that Skill Point. The fact that the game forces you to destroy the globes on the street lamps all over again if you die just once makes things especially frustrating.

Controls

As Ratchet: 

Control Pad/Left Analog Stick: move

Right analog stick: move camera

When hanging off platforms:

• Control Pad/Left Analog Stick: move
• Forward+X: vault up
• Back+X: drop down

X: Jump and double jump

• R1: stomp (must have Thruster-Pack)

Square: strike with wrench

Circle: pull out/shoot currently equipped gun/use gadget

Triangle:

• quick select (hold and use in conjunction with Control Pad or left stick to switch guns; menu can be customized in Quick Select on the pause menu
• double tap to switch between two most recently used Circle button weapons/gadgets

Select: Map

• Left stick/D-Pad: move map
• Right stick: Zoom in/out
• X: view missions
• Circle: play Infobot for planet
• L1: previous map
• R1: next map
• Triangle: Exit

Start: Pause menu

• Control Pad: select option
• X: confirm option choice

L1: tap to quickly center camera; hold for first-person view (hold button and use left stick or D-Pad to look around; let go of L1 to move camera back behind Ratchet)

• Square: wrench boomerang
• Circle: fire gun

L3: see health and Bolt totals

R1/R2: crouch (hold down)

• Square: wrench boomerang
• Left+X or Right+X: side somersault
• Down+X: backflip
• X (while running): long jump (must have Heli-Pack/Thruster-Pack)
• X: high jump (must have Heli-Pack/Thruster-Pack)
• Double tap: hover (must have Thruster-Pack equipped)

• L2: strafe left (while hovering)
• R2: strafe right (while hovering)
• X: exit hover mode (while hovering)

In water:

• Square: dive and descend
• X: surface and ascend
• R1: turbojets (must have Hydro-Pack)

Trespasser:

D-Pad or Left Analog Stick:

• Up and Down: switch rings
• Left and Right: rotate rings

Triangle: leave Invinco-Lock screen

As Clank:

Control Pad/Left Analog Stick: move

Right analog stick: move camera

When hanging off platforms:

• Control Pad/Left Analog Stick: move
• Forward+X: vault up
• Back+X: drop down

Square: punch

X: Jump (press and hold in the middle of a jump to glide with Heli-Pack)

Triangle: command menu (hold and use in conjunction with Control Pad or left analog stick to choose commands)