Rabi-Ribi (PS4) - Platinum Trophy Complete Playthrough

The current version 1.05 has broken several trophies, so the entire playthrough is done on v1.03 via a physical disc.

Rabi-Ribi is a complex Metroidvania where your items and progression influence boss strength, and certain hidden passages are active when you have a low amount of items. This is important as the game requires completing the postgame content at 0% items. Other tasks you need to do include getting 100% on items, map, beating 2 boss rushes, MAX ranking almost all the bosses, doing a speedrun of the main game (can be done on NG plus) and some sequence breaking.

While the game has multiple difficulties, all trophies can be obtained on the Casual difficulty, although with the challenges the game asks of you, doing everything on Casual will still require some game mastery.

The biggest challenge will be doing the 0% playthrough, and also completing the whole game without touching a spike once. What makes the spike trophy annoying is how the game preserves your spike damage even if you reload your autosave, so you'll need to go back to your last manual save if you ever touch a spike. Most of the time, spikes aren't too hard to avoid, but they become a lot more difficult to get through in the postgame.

The 0% playthrough can be rough if you do bosses in the wrong order, as they get progressively harder the more you beat. It's not too bad with a good boss order. Also, you can die multiple times to get a defense buff if a section is giving you a hard time.

The other trophies should be easy to get once you've completed the 0% run, especially if you're on Casual difficulty, as nothing should pose a huge threat once you've gathered enough items and powered up. Should you choose to continue from the 0% save, do it before beating the final postgame boss, as beating it will respawn all other bosses, and you don't want to be facing powered up bosses at 0% items.

The other trophy to be wary of is MAX ranks on most of the bosses. MAX rank can be obtained by maxing out a combo bar by hitting a boss with different types of attacks. Get enough offense-based items, health, the different Ribbon attacks, and the essential movement upgrades before taking on the final postgame boss, and try to get MAX rank on it. This will open up the extra chapters. Complete those to unlock Bunny Memories, which will make getting MAX ranks a lot easier. Most of the bosses will be MAX ranked during the NG plus run.

The route towards 100% completion takes into account potential boss refights and doesn't do the areas with bosses that won't be fought on the NG plus run until after beating the postgame boss. Make sure to MAX rank these when refighting them, otherwise you'll need to beat the final postgame boss again to respawn them.

Boss rush is straightforward when doing it on a Casual 100% save. NG plus will be the playthrough where every missing trophy is cleaned up, including the speedrun trophy. Once you know what bosses to do and use air dash a lot, it should be easy to get, especially if you use Bunny Memories.

0:00 - Start 0% no spike damage playthrough
1:53:56 - 0% postgame
3:07:27 - Start item collecting
4:52:11 - Extra Chapter 1
5:24:10 - Extra Chapter 2
6:01:34 - Finish 100% cleanup and MAX ranking bosses
7:16:26 - Boss Rush
7:56:53 - New Game Plus
8:45:10 - Detour for Sequence Break trophy
8:51:03 - Finish New Game Plus playthrough