Since Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando — the sequel to the original game on PlayStation 2 — I’ve played every game in the series with one goal: to upgrade all the guns.

Ratchet & Clank’s New Game Plus modes have always been the best, and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart continues the tradition.

In Rift Apart, players can upgrade each weapon five times during their first playthrough.

Rift Apart also carries forward the age-old tradition of adding Omega versions of these guns in New Game Plus.

Once players have their new Omega weapons in hand, the quest to upgrade starts again.

I play Ratchet & Clank games with a mission — to fully upgrade my entire arsenal — and I can’t fully accomplish that without New Game Plus.

Part of what makes Ratchet & Clank’s New Game Plus work for me is that it’s augmented.

The best part about New Game Plus in Ratchet & Clank is that it lets me use these super-powerful weapons.