History YMMV / RatchetAndClankGoingCommando

*** The UsefulNotes/PlaystationVita port accidentally makes them even harder, as the Vita has a much more sensitive analog stick, although setting camera speed to slow seems to ease it up a bit. (Unless it's just placebo.)

* ThatOneBoss: [[BonusBoss Swamp Monster II]], an optional boss fight you can take up on Oozla once you get the Gravity Boots. It is a long and tough fight, due in part to [[DamageSpongeBoss its sheer resilience]]--there are no real shortcuts to bringing down this creature (although you can stall it momentarily with the Decoy Glove), and the lack of ammo crates in the area isn't helping your case[[note]]It bears noting that it ''is'' technically possible to [[SelfImposedChallenge defeat it with only the Omniwrench's Comet Strike move]] to prevent the fight from being straight up UnintentionallyUnwinnable, but it does so little damage that it takes a lot of skill and patience to pull off[[/note]]. Do ''not'' fight this thing until you've built up a sizable and upgraded arsenal already. And to make matters worse, it is very easy to fall into the muck in the arena and sink, forcing you to start the whole battle over again if you aren't fast on your feet.

** [[BonusBoss The Mothership's]] mooks. A single one is dangerous but tolerable; sure, they can deal high damage, push Clank around and interrupt his combos, but they at least tend to die quickly. The problem is that they come ZergRush numbers and [[WeHaveReserves never. stop. spawning]]. In fact, the easiest way to deal with them is not melee nor even ranged attacks, but a ''GoombaStomp'', as they are completely helpless when Clank is out of reach and flock underneath him when he's in the air, and landing on top of them can wipe 1/3 or 2/3 of their health.

* TheScrappy: The New Age Mystic for being generally unhelpful and requiring the hard-to-get Moonstones just to do something.

* MinimalistRun: Its possible to beat the game with only four weapons--your default wrench, the Heavy Lancer, the Mini Nuke, and the Heavy Bouncer.

** The Bouncer can be this in all but the very last levels. It does massive damage on the initial blast and lets loose mini-bombs that seek out remaining targets and explode for additional damage. The final boss can be killed in a minute or two just by bombarding it with Bouncer bombs.

** [[GoodBadBugs Amusingly]], the ''final two bosses'' can both be taken down before the fight even begins, due to them both appearing on the map before the battle and still being damagable in this state. See [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaqOZbivZy4 here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3D5UDohVgk here.]] The latter was fixed in the HD version, however.

** The Mutant Protopet is frequently lambasted as the weakest FinalBoss of the original ''Ratchet & Clank'' [=PS2=] quadrilogy. Not only does it not have the emotional impact that the others do (You're frequently shown the villainous actions of Chairman Drek, Doctor Nefarious, and Gleeman Vox, to hype you up to finally take them down, while the Mutant Protopet is only introduced right before its battle), the boss itself is incredibly easy. All of its attacks are easy to read and dodge, and the boss can be felled in only a minute or two by using [[GameBreaker the Heavy Bouncer or Tetrabomb Gun]].

** During the snow convoy portion of Siberius, Ratchet jumps from one moving truck to the next, some six years before [[Characters/UnchartedNathanDrake Nathan Drake]] would [[VideoGame/Uncharted2AmongThieves do the same with train cars in Nepal]]. As an added bonus, this was during a time when Creator/NaughtyDog and Insomniac shared the same office building.

** During the snow convoy portion of Siberius, Ratchet jumps from one moving truck to the next, some six years before Nathan Drake would [[VideoGame/Uncharted2AmongThieves do the same with trains in Nepal]]. As an added bonus, this was during a time when Creator/NaughtyDog and Insomniac shared the same building.

* DesignatedHero: Angela Cross. After TheReveal, she's treated as a misunderstood hero who's been thwarted by unsuspecting dupes. Though she ''was'' a WellIntentionedExtremist, her crimes up to this point include kidnapping and holding Clank hostage, repeatedly trying to kill Ratchet, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking harassing store clerks for kicks]], and generally just acting like an actual villain. Though we learn she was forced to resort to extreme measures to stop Fizzwidget from releasing the Protopet in its current state, her actions cross the line from extremism to villainy quite easily. Downplayed though because, if nothing else, it's established early on that she's fairly incompetent when it comes to villainy.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: After the backlash the first game got for just how unlikable of a character Ratchet was, the sequel goes through hell and high water to make ''sure'' that your sympathy is with Ratchet off the bat and that he's grown past his old JerkAss personality into a (mostly) responsible and caring hero.

** Leaving the Insomniac Museum always takes you to Boldan. Even when you enter the Insomniac Museum at the very start of a Challenge Mode playthrough via the Shortcuts menu, letting you skip two-thirds of the game in 40 seconds (with 36 of those being loading screens). It's because of this that the NewGamePlus speedrun category has a world record that beats the game in less than eight minutes.

* AnticlimaxBoss:

** Dobbo. The atmosphere of the place is just great, and it's a flawless, fun mix of platforming, combat and puzzles, with a fun boss fight with Giant Clank as the cherry on top. One of the games developers, Mike Stout, even said that it was the first time they made a level that truly nailed the essence of what the ''Ratchet & Clank'' series was all about and that as early as ''Up Your Arsenal'', it was considered to be the standard every level made would be held up to.

** While definitely [[DifficultButAwesome tricky to use]], the Hoverbomb Gun can do some pretty good damage on its own. However, the GameBreaker status goes to its upgraded form, the Tetrabomb Gun, which not only increases the damage done by the bomb itself, but also shoots ''five'' bombs for the cost of one, with all of them doing the same amount of damage. It's highly effective at close range too, where all five bombs can be detonated in close proximity to each other to chew through whole groups of enemies. The Mega and Ultra upgrades further beef up the damage, to the point that it can deal more damage than even the ''RYNO II'', and, with skilled use, can plow through entire hordes of enemies.

** The Hoverbomb Gun already does good damage on its own, but its upgraded form the Tetrabomb Gun not only increases the damage done by the bomb itself, but shoots ''five'' bombs for the cost of one, with all of them doing the same amount of damage. It's highly effective at close range too, where all five bombs can be detonated in close proximity to each other to chew through whole groups of enemies.

** Megapede is not difficult to beat, but it has a large health bar, moves around the arena all the time, deploys irritating bombs en masse, and when whittled down by a powerful weapon, deploys mini-tanks with a difficult-to-avoid attack.

* ThatOneBoss: [[BonusBoss Swamp Monster II]], an optional boss fight you can take up on Oozla once you get the Gravity Boots. It is a long and tough fight, due in part to [[DamageSpongeBoss its sheer resilience]]--there are no real shortcuts to bringing down this creature (although you can stall it momentarily with the Decoy Glove), and the lack of ammo crates in the area isn't helping your case[[note]]It bears noting that it ''is'' technically possible to [[SelfImposedChallenge defeat it with only the Omniwrench's Comet Strike move]] to prevent the fight from being straight up UnwinnableByMistake, but it does so little damage that it takes a lot of skill and patience to pull off[[/note]]. Do ''not'' fight this thing until you've built up a sizable and upgraded arsenal already. And to make matters worse, it is very easy to fall into the muck in the arena and sink, forcing you to start the whole battle over again if you aren't fast on your feet.