Ratchet & Clank: Part 21: Speeding Through Kalebo III
4Ratchet & Clank were on their way to Planet Kalebo III to check out Gadgetron HQ.
Drek was quite aware of this, and hired elite commando units to hunt them down before they could do any more harm to his planetary plans, even if it meant destroy Gadgetron HQ, itself..
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I gotta say, it's a breath of fresh air to traverse a brighter planet, again.
As planned, there are a much of commandos in this planet. Take them down like any other, but be wary about the ships they come out of, too.
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One branching path will put you through another grind course. This one will be littered with mines, but you can very easily take them out with the Pyrociter. You will also go through this course while dodging incoming trains and hitting switches. One of the looping rails even contains a Gold Bolt!
If you can go through this grindrail course without getting hit once, then you'll get a Skill Point called "Heavy Traffic".
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After the end of the grind course, Ratchet & Clank realized they can finally meant Gadgetron's Helpdesk girl, the same voice that's been teaching you different things throughout this whole game.
Ratchet was hoping the girl was gonna be a cutie, and she was... by robot standards, because the Helpdesk girl is a robot. Naturally, it was Clank that ended up taking more of a liking to her, instead.
The robot girl was taking care to watch Clank & Ratchet's progress the whole time. For all of the effort they've put into reaching her, she freely gave them a handy item called the Map-o-matic.
The Map-o-matic is a permanent item that reveals secret areas. They will be marked as green on your map, and almost always lead to Gold Bolts. You won't necessarily need this if you already know where to find them, though.
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There will be some sections of this planet where you'll have to fight test dummy robots using certain weapons you already have, such as the Bomb Glove, Pyrociter, and the Walloper. The last of these rooms will even have a mix of all three!
Eventually, you'll get deep enough into the Gadgetron HQ to meet the CEO the company. He wants to promote hoverboards, and challenges Ratchet to beat his test bots in a race if he wants to help represent those boards.
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This Hoverboard race is like the one on Rilgar. This time, however, you can now pick up rockets to blast the test bots with. You can also go through three big rings in order to unlock a shortcut.
Likewise, this course has another Skill Point for itself, called "Magician". You just need to use your tricks to score 4500 points before finishing the race. A lot of my screwups and resets during this race were entirely on me trying to get this score as soon as possible. You'll need all the time you can get out of it, which is why I avoid the shortcut.
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For winning the race, the Gadgeton CEO rewards Ratchet with... an interview about the hoverboards. He totally flubs it... but Clank NAILS it!
Ratchet also gets a discount on Gadgetron products, but only after two years of working for them (gee... I wonder how this will get called back to...).
Instead, more directly, Ratchet finally gets the Hologuise. This will disguise you as one of the sentry bots on Planet Quartu, so you can get them to unlock security walls and get deeper inside the robot factory. Time to go back and check that place out!