It's easy to recommend if you have PS+ and haven't touched it yet. Despite my dislike of most of the weapons, I still found enough fun in it. It's simply just an easy fun game to breeze through. Also the underwater level gets real framey when you're underwater. It looks great, though some moments when there are a ton of enemies and bolts flying everywhere that the frame-rate becomes abysmal. Besides that this is a pretty easy and fun game to play. They also each have a running towards camera moments way too many times that aren't fun. Really weak compared to A Crack In Time's ones that incorporated time travel and whatnot. There's like 3 and all you do is swap between 3 kinds of little droids you use to traverse an area. Clank's puzzle sections are extremely easy and weak too. I understand it's a remake of the original, so maybe the guns brought from it weren't the best since it was the first, but I just felt like a majority of them felt really weak. Once I ran out of ammo for those I used the one I least liked and just didn't have fun with them. There were really only 3 or 4 of the 12 weapons I really liked. A lot of them felt like the max ammo counter was really low for the first levels of it so I was constantly running out of ammo.
Also you can't upgrade weapons without leveling them too. Many times I felt like I should be demolishing waves of enemies, but many felt like they took 3 shots too many. My major gripe is that none of the weapons in this one feel especially good or powerful. It's nothing deep story-wise or gameplay wise. It was free with PS+, so I downloaded it during the quarantine as a time killer after I finished a few games prior. After Crack, I didn't play any more R&C until this one. Clank's puzzle section were really cool and well done. I remember enjoying the hell out of that game.
It wasn't until I heard the high praise for A Crack In Time that I came back to the series. You will follow the left path from the start of the level and eventually make it to the arena. The first arena you come across in the Maxtar Nebula. They are known as Arena Battles, and can be found at two different areas of the game.
My brother was more into them during the PS2 era than I was, but I popped them in on occasion. One of the major additions to the R&C series began in this game. I randomly played Ratchet and Clank games throughout the PS2 era.