Ratchet & Clank 2 Any% Gadgetless in 2:16:47

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Published on February 1, 2025 1:04:29 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEHuE2sVpOY

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This is the first ever completion of Ratchet & Clank 2 from a fresh file without collecting or using any gadgets. Thanks to a ton of fortuitous and niche interactions with different weapons in this game, especially with the glove weapons, the Chopper and the Walloper, we were able to completely skip every mandatory usage of a gadget.

The Electrolyzer and Biker Helmet are items that we collect in the run, but they aren't in the Gadgets tab and they are necessary in order to collect certain coordinates (Feltzin, Dobbo). The Glider is also skipped in this run despite being an item, just for the sake of doing a far more technical (and difficult) Dobbo section which only utilises weapons.

The community-created Black Label Mod is used to emulate the Ship Shack Glitch normally found on PS2 versions of the game, allowing you to buy upgrades for 5 raritanium each; this is just so that I don't have to fish out a PS2 (which I don't have a capture card for) in order to have more comfortable ship sections.

Thanks to:
cank - partner in crime in making this route possible, found a ton of the tech necessary to complete the run and gave me many, many ideas when I hit a wall
isaki - similarly gave me a lot of ideas and the juice needed to finish off the gadgetless APB route, and for making BLmod
robo - for making BLmod and also being a generational rac2 strat hunter in general
ataappi - pioneering the rac1 low% routes and being a big inspo for tackling this project