Here's an indisputable fact: you cannot have a bad time while playing a Ratchet and Clank game. That doesn't change on Into the Nexus, the 12th instalment of the long-running PlayStation franchise.
Nexus is a short but sweet affair of about five hours that returns the platformer classic to its box-bashing, bolt-collecting roots while upping the action and adding a few bells and whistles.
It's definitely had a spit and polish: the graphics sparkle like never before, Ratchet's movements feel less clumsy and more organic, and the gravity defying leaps he performs in space during the game's introduction give Nexus a futuristic feel.
Clank even gets his own 2D old-school platform adventures during Nexus, which is based around the universe-destroying exploits of evil twins Vendra and Neftin Prog.
But the story hardly matters - it's all just a chance to give Ratchet a variety of enemies to test his new array of weaponry on. Check out the Nightmare Box, which summons up ghosts and ghouls from a parallel universe to terrify enemies, with hilarious results. Or the Winterizer, which turns them into snowmen while playing Jingle Bells. That could come in handy this time of year.
