- Estimated trophy difficulty: 3/10 (As per the Platinum Difficulty Thread)
- Trophy Breakdown:
- Offline: 35 (1 , 5 , 9 , 20 )
- Online: 0
- Approximate time to platinum: 20 - 30hrs
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1 + grinding
- Missable trophies: None, planets can be revisited
- Glitched trophies: None known at the moment
- Do cheat codes disable trophies?: There are cheats, not sure if it effects trophies though.
- Difficulty affects trophies?: No difficulty trophies.
Ratchet & Clank is a Playstation exclusive franchise created and developed by Insomniac Games. The series takes place in a science fiction setting and follow the adventures of a Lombax called Ratchet and his robotic side-kick Clank as they travel through the universe, saving it from evil forces on a regular basis. The series is noted for the inclusion of many exotic and unique, over the top weapons and devices.
The first game in the series, titled simply 'Ratchet & Clank', was originally released in 2002. In the game, Supreme Executive Chairman Drek plans to take pieces from other planets across the Solana Galaxy and create one new planet for his people, the Blarg, whose planet has become polluted and uninhabitable.
The franchise has now, deservedly, been remastered in HD for the Playstation 3, with the inclusion of trophies and stereoscopic 3D capabilities.
The game is very good, if you enjoyed the PS2 game you will enjoy this one even more because it has trophies! I'm sure you'll enjoy going for the platinum as it isn't difficult and there isn't really any boring trophies. The 10 gold weapons trophy might take a while but it's fun going for them.
Step 1: Complete the Game
The first thing you want to do is just complete the game, enjoy it. You can go for Skill Points and Gold Bolts if you want and other miscellaneous trophies but don't get too caught up in it as you'll have to begin a second playthrough anyway. Reason is your Ratchet is too weak and you won't be able to complete most of the skill points because of it (you also won't have the necessary weapons etc), so it's best to leave everything till the second playthrough when you are more familiar with how the game works and other such things. By the end of this step you'll have both the boss trophies and other such miscellaneous trophies. If you decided to get all the bolts in this step, you'll have that one too.
Step 2: Challenge Mode (NOTE: Keep same save file)
Challenge mode is basically new game +, you keep all your weapons, bolts, health upgrades etc. Make sure you overwrite your previous games save rather than creating a new one, as doing so will reset your progress towards the 1,000,000 bolts trophy. A huge bonus for Challenge Mode is your bolt count increases x2, meaning you will earn twice the amount of your first playthrough. During this playthrough you will want to buy the R.Y.N.O which costs 150,000 bolts, which is a lot. The main objective of this step is to get all the skill points and gold bolts, getting all skill points will net you 22 trophies for just getting all 30. Most of them are easy, some of them like Jumper, Speedy and Careful Cruise etc can prove to be difficult, but if you practice on each of them they are doable. You will also want to focus on collecting 1,000,000 bolts, which is cumulative so you don't need to carry 1,000,000 for the trophy. The last thing you want to do is obtain all 10 of the golden weapons as these take a long time to get because of there price and the amount of time it takes to get all of them. At the end of this step you should have all the trophies, including the platinum. If for some reason you don't, continue to step 3.
Step 3: Clean Up
Missed out on a skill point? Didn't collect all the gold bolts? Well now is the time to go back and complete what you are missing. At the end of this step you will have your platinum, congrats!
[PS3T Would Like to Thank wottagunn and Harry94 for this Roadmap]