Since making its debut on the PlayStation 2, the Ratchet and Clank series remains one of the tentpole series on Sony's family of consoles. The series will continue on PlayStation 5 with Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart as the titular heroes battle their longtime enemy Dr. Nefarious with the fate of reality hanging in the balance. However, the galaxy's last Lombax is no longer the last of his kind as Sony formally introduces the new, heroic female Lombax.

Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart takes place some time after 2013's Into the Nexus and follows the heroes as they try to stop Dr. Nefarious from rewriting the dimensions using the Dimensionator. The two will traverse across multiple dimensions to stop him and find aid in a mysterious female Lombax battling against Nefarious in a dimension where the villain reigns supreme.

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While the new Lombax was first seen in the debut gameplay for Rift Apart, a new trailer shared on Twitter ahead of Sony's April State of Play properly introduces the series newest hero. Rivet is a Lombax living in an alternate dimension where Nefarious rules the galaxy and she is one of the few fighting his evil reign. She stumbles across Clank after he gets separated from Ratchet and the two must work together in order to find Ratchet and save the dimensions from collapsing.

Rivet is only the third new Lombax Insomniac Games has introduced into the series as well, following in the footsteps of Alister Azimuth from A Crack in Time and Angela Cross from Going Commando. However, Rivet is the first new playable character the studio is introducing to the mainline series since it began in 2002. Other games like All-4-One feature other playable characters due to a focus on multiplayer, but the mainline single-player series typically kept the focus on the titular heroes.

Rivet may be a new character, but the overall gameplay doesn't appear to be any different from style fans associate with the long-running series. She will have access to a wide and colorful array of weapons to battle Nefarious' forces as perspectives jump back-and-forth between Rivet and Ratchet.

The introduction of a new Lombax at this point in the Ratchet and Clank series could mean Insomniac has some big narrative plans going forward. This was the case in 2007's Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, which served as a narrative jumping point to explore Ratchet's past and what happened to his people in the subsequent games in the Future series. It's also possible Rivet could simply be a one-off character for Rift Apart, but don't be surprised if her impact resonates across future installments of the series.

Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart will be available June 11, 2021 exclusively on PlayStation 5.

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