Dread Pirate Lombax

Two more levels down, and it is getting even more challenging, but not quite for the right reasons.

The first area was pretty straight forwards, and even had a bonus side map for an extra item to collect up bolts from boxes. The end of the area though had a huge boss fight that started in a rail grinding segment and every time I died I had to do that segment all over again. The boss fight itself was tough too since the giant robot would take off a quarter of my health in one hit. Finally I beat the boss and ratchet got the macguffin, only to have it stolen by the pirates that have been bugging them the whole game.

Next was a huge level with hoards of pirates everywhere, and half a dozen mid boss fights, it was good that they had reload stations every 10 minutes since I was almost fully out of ammo every time I found one. The final section of the level started with Ratchet on a small air ship fighting off waves of pirates while every now and then a bigger ship would pull up beside and blast him with cannons. I was doing rather well my first time though, and then suddenly the other ship went away, I clear off the last of the pirates and waited for the next wave... and kept waiting...

The game had glitched out again and the next area wasn't loading, so I had to make Ratchet jump off the ship to re-spawn at the start again. This threw off my momentum and it took half a dozen tries to get back up to the final boss fight, but in the end I beat him and not only won the loyalty of the pirates but also a handy map tool that shows secret areas and power ups. Too bad Quark got away with the macguffin...