Trophy hunters will already be familiar with the work of Ratalaika Games, no doubt. The port house has built a pretty compelling business model out of converting small indie titles to Sony’s platforms and populating them with relatively easy Platinum Trophies. While not every single one of its published titles is easy, the vast majority are, which is good news for those looking to fill their virtual cabinets with Sony silverware.
For the longest time, fans could double up on these easily obtainable pots, as the company would release them as cross-buy between the PlayStation 4 and PS Vita. But changes to the European ratings board ruled out any further handheld ports earlier in the year, meaning most recent Ratalaika Games releases have been on the PS4 only.
However, now the firm’s managed to get its hands on a PS5 development kit, and so the cross-buy fun can continue. It recently released a PS5 port of Destruction Derby-esque combat racer Concept Destruction, and now it’s followed up with physics puzzler Freddy Spaghetti. To be honest, we’re not sure what to make of the title’s trailer, but we bet you can pop its Platinum in under an hour.
Anyway, we imagine more Ratalaika Games published titles will release on the PS5 in the near-future, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing! While not every title it ports is an instant classic, we’ve had fun with a fair number of them, and they’re always priced appropriately on the PS Store. Oh, and those easy to obtain Platinums are always nice, aren’t they?
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As someone with 85 platinums, it's no fun to get a platinum trophy if there's like zero effort involved. I only go for the plat on games I enjoyed or were available on PS+. I've never been one to buy a game just because it was an easy play and I mean, if I see hana montana on your trophy list I shake my head...unless you bring it back with a ninja gaiden plat.
Yeeeah, I would never buy a game just to get trophies.
I’m rubbish at getting platinums, I only have 8. Although that’s soon to be 9 if I can stomach destroying 5000 obstacles in a carriage in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate. I can’t even cheese it 😫
I got 19 plats now. Never cared about trophies until something changed and I started caring about trophies
As someone who "played" Snake Boat, I welcome this development. I'm off to take a shower now.
@ATaco Ratalaika stacks actually carry more risk than so-called "real" games. It's about the meta of getting all the stacks which involves performing a hack on vita that has a risk of destroying the legitimacy of your profile if done incorrectly, so it's not exactly zero effort. Although that's a thing of the past now with no more vita games.
I don't have Hana Montana on my profile, but I have Barbie.
@Milktastrophe well barbie is fine. Awesome game... 😂
Im jk ive never even seen barbie, but like @Voltan i never used to care about trophies but now im always trying to get them. Its like a mini games inside each game.
I have 160 platinums and I admit I'll steer clear of almost impossible trophy list games as well as super easy one too.
I'm happy enough with my 11 soon to be 12 Plats once I finish a second playthrough of Kiwami, games like this cheapen getting them imo.
Despite the image that Ratalaika do just trophy games, some of them are genuinely good titles.
Ratalaika plats are for peasants. Everybody knows this.
@Voltan i'm the same, have 20 platinums and now I want to go back and play all my games to grab ones I didn't bother with before. Got the platinum for the 3 games i've played on PS5 but currently playing Demon's Souls so could be playing that for a good while!
I only get platinum for the game I love, like transistor, shantae half-genie hero, nier automata, god of war, and others, I don't want to buy some games only for the plat.
I'm good, I like my platinum trophies to mean something.
Quality over quantity. I’ll never buy a game because it’s an easy platinum, it’s kinda sad and I only ever platinum games I really enjoy. I get it though, it’s smart using it to potentially get more sales, don’t blame them.
I have zero platinums. It will probably remain that way for a long time if not indefinitely. Despite that, having only been a PS owner since the middle of the year I too have revised my opinion on trophies. Whilst I don't agree that they're a must have for any platform (I don't miss them on Switch), it is quite fun to see them pop up as you make your way through a game.
(I don't foresee having any platinum trophies mostly because on the whole I play through the main campaign of a game and move on. There are too many games I want to play!)
Just what we needed. The ps5 store flooded with god awful cheap games that are only bought and played for a platinum. It will end up like the ps4 games list. Trying to find a diamond in a mountain of rocks.
I have like 3 Plats and all of them are visual novels, as I never revisit games. Like it would probably take me 30 Minutes to get all trophies on Astrobot which is probably my Goty but I just don’t care enough
The joy of trophies for me is in the extra challenges the devs give us to attain them. Sure some are given just for running through the story, but the others encourage me to play in different ways and see things I might never see otherwise. Or just act like fun mini games.
That’s why these games aren’t of interest to me for trophies. Generally they just come from playing through the game and that’s it. Same reason they aren’t fun in telltale games.
The games themselves can be fun though, so I have apparently cheap trophies on my profile just because I enjoyed the games.
I’m not a trophy wh*re, but I’m also not a trophy elitist who wouldn’t sully his profile with these games (they are out there).
@winnipegborn1984 I'm astonished, 160 platinums? That's quite something! I wonder what your #hoursplayed would be across the lot?!
In 10 years of PlayStation I only got my first platinum this summer playing God of War. And that is only because it was such a satisfying game to play and didn't require multiple playthroughs or hard difficulty. I've since platinumed Astro's playroom which was delightful.
Generally though I don't have the skill (in my 40s now!) or the inclination for the busywork required. There's just too many other games and other distractions to focus on them for me. But kudos to those that do!
@ATaco For me its the same with Platinums that make me tear my hair out. 🤪
@thefourfoldroot My favorite talk too everyone in the game and you miss one character in a big RPG. 😭
@Flaming_Kaiser
A similar thing happened to me in Tokyo Xanadu Ex +, although that requires a second playthrough anyway (which I still need to get round to)
@nessisonett Ah it made me sick too it was such a terrible time and so boring best too just ride around smash everything for short bursts.
@thefourfoldroot For me that was the end of the game it was on PS3 i can get so annoyed with some trophies i dont want too see the game anymore. How about good and evil playtrough on Infamous its not hard but i like playing the good guy and being evil not so much.
@Flaming_Kaiser
I don’t like replaying games generally, but if I have new interaction or missions I don’t mind, so going for an opposite karma in Infamous Second Son didn’t really bother me.
@thefourfoldroot For me i dont have lots of time and i dont like being evil so thats the biggest issue. 😅
@Flaming_Kaiser
My problem with being evil in games is that the missions and relationships are often fewer and less nuanced. For a second playthrough though it can be fun.
@MuppetThumper I'm in the same boat as you. I just don't have the desire to to the busywork unless I absolutely love the game. Being almost 40 myself, my dexterity isn't there anymore for the more skill-based Trophies, either.
I have 2 Platinum Trophies: Final Fantasy XV and Days Gone.
I have a handful of platinums, but I only bother with them if it is a game I am really enjoying. I’d never play something I’m not having fun with for the trophies. And that includes games I did enjoy that require a bunch of busy work for the platinum.
@MuppetThumper my trophy list started when trophies first started so many years it took to acquire them all. I'm in my late 30's and just love games. Games like Death Stranding felt like one of my longest to acquire. I do love seeing how rare my platinums are. I think Deus Ex Mankind Divided is around 0.1% which is a shame cause it was such a fantastic game. I'm currently working on Cyberpunk.
I'm currently on 54 Platinums. A few were quick and easy, but earned because I enjoyed the game, not because they were easy; others were most definitely not quick or easy - Fallout 3, Horizon, Spec Ops: The Line.
I wouldn't really call myself a trophy hunter, as I don't go out of my way to get every trophy for every game... but if I really enjoy the game, I'll get as many as I can. I've done all the Uncharted games twice, on PS3 and PS4.
Yea ive always liked the effort for trophy hunting. Ive went on a Rata streak for about 7 or 8 games and I didn't like how I felt afterwards. Not that they were bad games. I just didn't like the little effort I had to put in to get the plat. I'll still play one one or two of there games here and there between bigger titles im playing, but i will never just go for easy plats. There's no fun in that.
I'm the first to admit Ratalaika Games main sales pitch is easy platinums. They produce tons of shovelware games, but there are hidden games like Metagal (Mega Man clone) and Tamiku.
I think it’s pretty harsh to rag on Ratalaika Games as being cheap throwaway titles. Sure not every game will appeal to everyone, but there are some genuinely fun titles.
I think it’s really great that they help really small indie teams port their games to console, I can only imagine how exciting that must be for them!
Go on and support some of these guys! They need it!
All these people saying they don't care for trophies and platinums sure care enough to click and comment on an article about Ratalaika. Salty bunch.
@MuppetThumper Age has nothing to do with skill. I turned 50 this year. I've had this PS account for 3 and a half years (had another prior but the trophies don't pass over) and in that time I've got 107 platinums so far. Currently playing TLOU2 grounded on perma-death, to get those two extra trophies, just because I was annoyed they made the platinum on this TLOU so easy. lol
@thefourfoldroot I wish they would release a game with more grey areas sometimes i see the "good" way of fixing things not as the completely right way.
@Breekhead nobody really says ratalaika games are bad, though. The trophy lists are the bad part. For example Jack n Jill DX can be platinumed in 5 minutes, it only requires playing the first couple levels. You miss almost all of the game if you stop after the platinum.
@Flaming_Kaiser
In a way I agree, but worse is when choices seem to indicate one thing and something you didn’t intend happens.
@Eldritch ok well I clearly lack the skill lol. That must be a whole lot of gaming in just 3 years, may I ask what your typical hours are per week? I need to be more efficient with my leisure time!
@MuppetThumper I have no idea really what my total hours gaming are... But since they added times played on things recently I found out I'd put 1,760 hours into The Division 1. And I can't say that's my most played game. I'm not sure I want to know more stats like that. lol At the end of the day though it doesn't really matter how skilled you are as long as you enjoy it. But I do find it annoying when people say children are naturally good at games. My mate's children are good at fortnight but that's about it. I've never tried it. But they are in in awe of the trophies I've got off games they've tried and can't get the trophies. Age doesn't dictate skill but enjoyment beats everything.
@thefourfoldroot Like when people beat the living ***** out of a conduit that did nothing wrong. Is it a bad thing if blow these people away.
Got my 100th Platinum recently , it was Demons Souls, my 99th was the Evil Within, I have a few easy plats but wouldn't grind a bad game just for a plat, it has to be a game I enjoy.
Game devs gotta pay the bills too, man.
@AndyKazama This. Ratalaika is a publisher and the majority of the games they publish are good small indie games that are already successful on pc.
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