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The Razor Claws is a weapon in Tools of Destruction. It is a melee weapon manufactured by GrummelNet Industries, and is a pair of wrist-mounted splitter claws that slashes enemies, with slightly longer range than the OmniWrench. They can perform normal ground strikes and downward aerial hits. Each strike powers the claws up for a combo (indicated by the color changing from yellow to red), making it gain power as it is used.

The Razor Claws are available for purchase upon reaching Kerchu City on Jasindu for 125,000 bolts. With use, it can be upgraded to the Shredder Claws, which have wider, blue blades and release a burst of energy on their third strike.

The Razor Claws are notable for their ability to glitch the game and climb walls, accessing otherwise inaccessible areas.

History[]

Many at GrummelNet argued the Razor Claws were too dangerous to be upgradeable. Ultimately, they gave into customer demand and created the Shredder Claws.[1]

Characteristics[]

The Razor Claws are wrist-mounted weapons with a small node on the back, from which the laser splitter claws are generated. The yellowish laser claws change color to red as they continue to strike enemies and gain power. The Shredder Claws are a light blue instead of yellow, and release a powerful Floomis Energy shockwave on their third strike.[1]

Combat[]

Razor Claws gameplay

The Razor Claws in action.

The Razor Claws are a melee weapon which deal great damage to a target, and have a minor area of effect, and also ignore shields, but are unable to hurt electrified enemies. The damage of the weapon is very high, and becomes stronger the more hits it deals without taking damage, with an increase of 50% at max combo. The max combo limit is four, with each level requiring three hits without taking any damage. Switching to another weapon does not reset the combo, but being hit does.

The primary disadvantage of the Razor Claws is that, as a melee weapon, the player must be close to enemies to damage them, meaning often placing themselves in harm's way in order to use the weapon efficiently. This can be difficult when trying to build a combo, as enemies are most dangerous up close, although using the aerial strike to get closer mitigates the problem somewhat. The weapon works well when paired with another source of crowd control, such as the Nano-Swarmers (with the special upgrade that freezes targets), or the Mag-Net Launcher to disable them entirely.

The Razor Claws can be upgraded with raritanium to add upgrades such as More ammo, More damage, More raritanium, and More bolts. The player may choose to prioritize upgrading its ammo and damage to play to its strengths, with especially ammo running out fast. The Fission Accelerator special upgrade improves the speed at which a combo is build, lowering the amount of hits needed per level by one.

The Shredder Claws allow it to release Floomis energy on their third strike which, while very useful against tougher enemies when using it, also does not overcome the shortcoming of the weapon being risky to use.

In challenge mode, the Omega Shredder Claws upgrade could be purchased from any GrummelNet vendor for 3,500,000 bolts.

Bugs[]

Wall clawing[]

The Razor Claws, or any upgraded version of them, allow the player to scale any relatively smooth vertical wall, cliff or rock lacking a death barrier obstructing them, thus accessing otherwise inaccessible areas. Once the Claws are equipped, the player has to hold R2 and high jump into the air close to the wall, attack the wall with the Claws, keep R2 held down, then high jump again on contact and repeat. When finishing the aerial attack, Ratchet automatically lands on his feet, even if there is no surface.

Air clawing[]

Another bug is air clawing, allowing the player to jump far distances. To do this, with the Razor or Shredder Claws, the player has to hold R2, high jump into the air and then attack with the claws while still holding R2 down. Once scything down with the Claws, if nothing but open space was hit, the Claws would act as if the open space was still a surface, and Ratchet could jump and automatically long jump to a different location.

Behind the scenes[]

Razor Claws concept art

Concept art.

A similar weapon named the Razor Talons was set to appear in A Crack in Time, but was cut due to time constraints and can only be found in the Insomniac Museum.[2]

The Razor Claws appear in the 2016 movie reboot, used by some characters in the film.

The Razor Claws are weapons that can be used by Ratchet in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.

Citations[]

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