Talwyn: We're just here to find a pirate. Captain Angstrom Darkwater?
Sprocket: Darkwater? Ya hear that, lads? This mangy stowaway seeks the ear of a dead man! How's about we arrange a proper introduction?
Sprocket: Darkwater? Ya hear that, lads? This mangy stowaway seeks the ear of a dead man! How's about we arrange a proper introduction?
The second game of the Ratchet & Clank series to be released on the PlayStation 3, and the sixth mainline game of the series.
The game takes place directly after the end of Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction and catalogs Ratchet's search for the elusive Fulcrum Star - an item that will allow him to find Clank's whereabouts - all while having to deal with Captain Darkwater and his army of ghost robot pirates.
It was followed by Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time, which concluded the Future trilogy.
Watch yer step there, troper. X doesn't always mark the spot!
- Ascended Extra:
- Talwyn is a more major character than in Tools of Destruction, accompanying Ratchet throughout most of the game.
- While the robot pirates did make a few appearances in Tools of Destruction, you fought them less frequently than Tachyon's mooks. In this game, the pirates are the main antagonists.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: Captain Slag returns when his head is fused to the body of Captain Darkwater. However, Darkwater's spirit still resides within his corpse and the two are forced to share the body, making them the dual antagonists of the game.
- The Cameo: While he does not appear physically or through a voice role, you can still find a golden Captain Qwark statue under the sea near Hoolefar Island.
- Continuity Nod: The Merdegraw people usually talk about DreadZone, which was featured in Ratchet: Deadlocked.
- The Cuckoolander Was Right: While the "Booty is in the Eye of the Beholder" Qwark Vid-Comic about "robot pirate ghosts" in Up Your Arsenal was very likely embellished to make Qwark look cool (a fact that does not escape the narrator), this game reveals that's exactly what Darkwater and his crew are now.
- Demoted to Extra: As the game is about Ratchet and Talwyn searching for Clank, it stands to reason that the robot only appears in the final cutscene.
- Dragon Ascendant: Slag is revealed to be this to Darkwater, having previously mutinied against him to become Captain.
- Fair-Play Villain: After tricking Ratchet into helping him out, Rusty Pete throws him over the side of a ship - however, he then throws Ratchet his Combuster and Plasma Grenade, which he had lost at the beginning of the game.Here's a little something to show that there's no hard feelings!
- Gaiden Game: Zig-Zagged; the plot of Quest for Booty does not directly tie into the overarching story of the other Future games do but does set up a number of things that would come into play in A Crack in Time, so who sees it as a mainline entry and who sees it as this tends to vary — Insomniac counts the game as a main installment and the second part of the overall Future trilogy / saga whereas PlayStation instead classifies it as standalone DLC for Tools of Destruction in the same vein as titles such as inFAMOUS: Festival of Blood. However this trope is invoked in Japan, where the game is titled Ratchet & Clank Future Gaiden with its immediate predecessor and successor being Future and Future 2 respectively.
- He's Back!: The whole game is a setup to reveal the return of Dr. Nefarious.
- Hijacked by Ganon: The ending of the game reveals that the reason the Zoni kidnapped Clank in Tools of Destruction was because Dr. Nefarious told them that he could "fix" him, setting up A Crack In Time.
- Mission-Pack Sequel: Quest for Booty runs on the same gameplay engine as Tools of Destruction, with only a few tweaks to it. The main difference is the addition of two new OmniWrench-based elements; the ability to pick up and throw small objects, and the Kinetic Tether which can be used to manipulate objects from a distance. The weaponry Ratchet acquires is also entirely lifted from ToD.
- The Mole: Rusty Pete turns out to have been using Ratchet and Talwyn to revive Captain Slag by placing his head on Captain Darkwater's body.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Captain Angstrom Darkwater and his crew of robot pirate ghosts.
- Oh, Crap!: Ratchet says this verbatim upon quite literally falling for Darkwater's trap.
- Opening Narration: Rusty Pete gives one.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Mayor Barnabus Worley.
- Sequel Hook: The whole game is a setup for the events of A Crack in Time, ending with Ratchet learning that Dr. Nefarious was behind Clank's kidnapping.
- Space Pirates: All of the main enemies are robotic pirates from space.
- Symbol Swearing: The European release had Ratchet's dropping of "awww, crap" - when tricked by one of Captain Darkwater's traps mere inches away from the Fulcrum Star - completely bleeped out. If subtitles are turned on, it's censored with symbols too.
- Video Game Cruelty Potential: It's possible to leave Talwyn behind in Morrow Caverns when you get separated. However, she'll eventually escape on her own and will be pretty pissed at you about it. She also claims she now knows how Clank must feel.
