Aug 6th, 2023, 12:37 AM
How do you feel about games that use a villain for more than one game? Are you always fine with it, or does it depend on certain things?
For me I don't like a single villain that gets re-used when they're introduced after the first game in a series. To name two notable ones that I always think of in relation to this:
I hate Dr. Nefarious a lot because of how the R&C series leaned on him so hard that Ratchet & Clank PS4 outright throws the main villain of the original Ratchet & Clank game under the bus and suddenly makes Nefarious the main villain when he was never even introduced until the third game!
For me I don't like a single villain that gets re-used when they're introduced after the first game in a series. To name two notable ones that I always think of in relation to this:
- Ripto in Spyro the Dragon. He was introduced in Spyro 2, and then we only got Spyro: Year of the Dragon (2000) and Spyro: Season of Ice (2001) which both have new villains before Ripto then proceeds to appear in the next four games in a row: Spyro 2: Season of Flame (2002), Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly (2002), Spyro: Attack of the Rhynocs (2003), and Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy (2004).
- Dr. Nefarious in Ratchet & Clank. He was introduced in Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (2004), and then acts as a background antagonist from the end of Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty (2008), and then as a main antagonist again in Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time (2009), Ratchet & Clank PS4 (2016) and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (2021), and any games that happen between ACiT and R&CPS4 are all spin-off titles besides one, so we got basically one game without him as the main antagonist ever since QfB.
I hate Dr. Nefarious a lot because of how the R&C series leaned on him so hard that Ratchet & Clank PS4 outright throws the main villain of the original Ratchet & Clank game under the bus and suddenly makes Nefarious the main villain when he was never even introduced until the third game!