Ratchet & Clank Going Commando: Part 2: Swamp Shopping in Oozla
6Ratchet wasn't able to collect the Experiment before the thief took it away. He reported to Fizzwidget about it.
Luckily, Fizzwidget did! The Thief was last spotted at a Megacorp store in Planet Oozla. Of course, he was up to no good there.
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What an interesting real first level to start this game off with: A stormy swamp representing with bombastic music you'd hear for a warzone stage.
These planets still have alternating paths. Be sure to check out as many as you can in order to complete different missions and possibly get different rewards out of them.
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This game also has Skill Points again, and this time you can check them out sooner to try and figure out what you have to do or where you can get them.
Oozla's Prehistoric Rampage has you shoot down 4 Pterodactyls flying in the sky. Use any weapon you want to bring them down.
Oozla also has Smash and Grab, where you have to destroy as much as you can in this planet's Megacorp store, which I reach later.
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One of the paths I go through will mostly involve riding on the local swamp beast to carry Ratchet over the swamp waters. He'll sink in them, himself, but he can try to jump out a couple of times, but if you fail to reach to solid land after enough times, then it's just instant death.
After a slide, Ratchet encounters a Megacorp salesman. If you can pay him 1,000 Bolts, you can buy from him the Megacorp Tractor Beam.
This Tractor Beam is a gadget that can move any objects with orange markings on them. As a demonstration, you can use this to line up some towers you can use as platforms to climb on, including to reach a cliff that contains a Platinum Bolt.
Platinum Bolts are the Gold Bolts of the first game, because you see now that the little bolts you collect for cash are now gold, themselves.
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The other path I take on this planet leads to the Megacorp store where Fizzwidget located the Thief. On the way there, you will be faced in a boss battle against Swamp Monster I.
Watch out for attacks from its massive thorns and keep shooting at its eye. Since it's a boss, it's gonna give Ratchet and whatever weapon he used to kill it much more EXP than usual. So use that to your advantage and choose which gun you want to gain that EXP.
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Right at the start of the Megacorp store, you can get another Gadget called the Dynamo. It's kinda like the Tractor Beam, except it activates machinery that's marked with a green and silver device. You tag that device and it causes things to move for Ratchet to use for platforming, such as solid green holographs.
Let the friendly music of the store run through your ears as you mercilessly shoot away the baddies lurk in it and any merchandise you wanna break for free Bolts! Remember that the Smash and Grab Skill Point will be gained once you've broken enough things, so look and shoot everywhere!
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At the end of this "tour", Ratchet speaks to Fizzwidget in a different monitor. Looks like the Thief got away again, but Fizzwidget tracked him down again, this time as Megacorp Maktar Resort. Ratchet also needs to head to the Maktar Resort Orbit to take down a massive jamming array that's been preventing the broadcast of the resort's Galactic Gladiators.
The Galactic Gladiators is a hardcore arena competition where the biggest and baddiest baddies come in and thrash each other in the ring. Two of their champions, Chain Blade (CHAIN BLADE!) and the B-2 Brawler (BRAWLER!) (BRAWLER!), were both ready to show their guts as much as they wanted to rip out the guts of anyone who think they stand a chance against them!
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Gracefully, a lot of planets still have the quirk of sending you right back to your ship after you've gone through their courses, saving you a lot of time of having to return on foot.
Also remember that planets will also have further branching paths and secrets that you probably couldn't reach at the time because you lacked a certain gadget. I do plan to return to Oozla once I've gotten such a gadget.