A Virus Named Tom Trophy Guide & Road Map

A Virus Named Tom
A Virus Named Tom Trophy Guide

Overview

Estimated trophy difficulty: 3/10 (personal opinion) (Trophy Difficulty Rating)
Offline trophies: 13 (1, 3, 9)
Online trophies: 0
Approximate amount of time to 100%: 6-10hrs (Estimated Time to 100%)
Minimum number of playthroughs: 1
Number of missable trophies: None
Glitched trophies: None
Does difficulty affect trophies?: No
Do trophies stack?: No
Do cheat codes disable trophies?: No

Introduction

Dr X brought the world the city of Tomorrow, with robot dogs,and houses that clean themselves. MegaTech promptly fired him as soon as the last chrome brick was laid but Dr X has one final invention, a little virus named Tom. Help this little gremlin bring the city of Tomorrow back to the Stone Age by causing absolute mayhem throughout the city. An Action-puzzler. The puzzle comes from rearranging circuits to spread the virus. The Action comes from dodging anti-virus drones while doing it. IndieDB review.

Credit for the videos goes to SFK64, Lolailo Lama and Thatgame.

Walkthrough

Step 1 - Complete All Levels of the Game.
Try and beat the game without any guides and enjoy the puzzles. Some are quite challenging, so if you enjoy puzzle games, you will enjoy beating this yourself. If you want to just follow a guide, you can fly through this game for some easy trophies. Once you complete the game, you will receive a trophy for beating the final chapter, and the trophy for not skipping any levels.

Tomorrow is History
Pandemic

Step 2 - Achieve a Gold Award For Each Level
Beat every level again. Now you have beat the game the best way would be to use the gold award video guide to show you the quickest and easiest way to beat the required score for each level.

Gold Boat

Step 3 - Clean Up
You will most likely pick up a few of these as you complete the game. If not, play through the individual levels to achieve each trophy.

Helium
Energy Fundamentalist
Stack Overflow
Unobtainium Chain
Adamantium Chain
Coup d'état
Glitch Abstinence
Energy Purist
Energy Extremist
A Virus Named Ninja

[PST Would Like To Thank staytrue1985 for this Roadmap]

Helium

Get TWO Energy Pellets Orbiting TOM at the Same Time
You steal energy from an opponent by getting too close. They have a little orb on their front/rear, which is what you need to steal. Steal 2 in succession.
Energy Fundamentalist

Beat Level 4.05 WITHOUT Stealing Energy
Complete the puzzle without getting too close to one of the enemies. If you get too close to an enemy you will steal energy. Thanks to SFK64 on YouTube for this video.
Tomorrow is History

Complete City of Tomorrow
Complete all of the levels for the final section, which is City of Tomorrow. Any levels you use skip tokens on will count as completed.
Stack Overflow

Collect more energy than the HUD capsules can contain
(1)
You steal energy from an opponent by getting too close. They have a little orb on their front/rear, which is what you need to steal. When you steal energy from an enemy this is added to your energy bar at the top of the HUD. Steal enough of these so that your bar hits the maximum capacity. Level 3-10 is an excellent level to complete this as you should also obtain Coup d’etat , Unobtanium Chain and Adamantium Chain. Thank you to YouTube user Lolailo Lama and forum user cperezprg for this video.
Unobtainium Chain

Get an Energy Chain of 10 Energy Pellets
See Adamantium Chain
Adamantium Chain

Get a Energy Chain of 20 Energy Pellets
(1)
You steal energy from an opponent by getting too close. They have a little orb on their front/rear, which is what you need to steal. You need to do this 20 times in a row in quick succession. Level 3-10 is an excellent level to complete this as you should also obtain Coup d’etat, Unobtanium Chain and Stack Overflow. Thank you to YouTube user Lolailo Lama and forum user cperezprg for this video.
Coup d'état

Score higher than the Devs on any Single Player level 3.01 or higher ("Tim" and "Jeremy" BAKED IN Scores)
(2)
Your score is the value shown at the top of your screen, which is energy remaining. The easiest way to beat the Dev scores is to steal a lot of energy before you complete the level. Once again, level 3-10 is a good level to use as you should also obtain Coup d’etat, Unobtanium Chain and Stack Overflow. Thank you to YouTube user Lolailo Lama and forum user cperezprg for this video.
Glitch Abstinence

Beat Level 3.10 WITHOUT Dropping Any Glitches
Simply complete the pizzle without dropping any glitches. You will have to die at least once to do this, so make sure you steal some energy before you die, so you respawn. The puzzle is a very simple one. Thanks to SFK64 on Youtube for this video. (The level number is different on the video as it was not filmed on the PS Vita version)
Energy Purist

Beat Level 3.04 WITHOUT Stealing Energy
To beat this level without stealing energy you will have to drop a glitch that will kill 2 colliding enemies. This will give you an extra 10 energy points and will allow you to complete the level just in time. The puzzle is very simple, you just have to be quick. Thanks to SFK64 on YouTube for this video.
Pandemic

Infect all levels, leaving none skipped
See Gold Boat
Energy Extremist

Beat Level 6.05 WITHOUT Stealing Energy
(4)
Can be a bit tricky because of the speed of the enemies, but with a little practice you will get this. Thanks to SFK64 on YouTube for this video.
A Virus Named Ninja

Beat Level 6.10 Without Dying
This at first can look daunting, but once you know the required root this should be straight forward. Thank you to YouTube user Lolailo Lama for the video.
Gold Boat

Earn GOLD for all Levels
(1)
Achieve a gold award for each level. Thanks to thatgame on YouTube for these videos.

A Virus Named Tom - Gold Award for Each Level (playlist)

Some on the levels are slightly different and/or in a different order, but this covers the vast majority.

Solutions to levels 6.06 and 6.09, which are vita exclusives, can be found here (credit to psnprofiles.com).

Tips
- Complete a puzzle on your own first, and then take a picture with your phone of the solution just before you move the final piece. You will then be able to very quickly beat the puzzle and get the gold.
- The gold score is based on how much energy you have left. Steal as much energy as you can to boost your score nice and high and you should easily beat the gold score on every level.