Aaru's Awakening Trophy Guide & Road Map

Aaru's Awakening
Aaru's Awakening Trophy Guide

Overview:

Estimated trophy difficulty: 3/10 (Trophy Difficulty Rating)
Offline trophies: 15 (13, 1, 1)
Online trophies: 0
Approximate amount of time to 100%: 5-10hrs but this is highly skill dependent (Estimated Time to 100%)
Minimum number of playthroughs: 1
Number of missable trophies: None because all levels are replayable.
Glitched trophies: No specific trophies are glitched but there is a potential issue, see here for details: LINK
Does difficulty affect trophies?: No difficulty settings
Do trophies stack?: Yes
Do cheat codes disable trophies?: No cheats available

Introduction and Controls:

Introduction:

Aaru's Awakening is a hand-drawn, fast-paced, 2D action platformer. The game puts players in charge of Aaru, a mythical creature with two unique abilities; teleportation and charging. There are 4 domains (worlds) in the game: day, dusk, night and dawn. Each domain consists of 5 levels, the final level being a boss. You will unlock the boss level after completing the other 4 levels so there is a total of 20 levels across 4 domains as well as 3 tutorial levels. The first domain you will unlock is the day domain after completing 3 tutorial levels.

All trophies in this game are of 2 types:

Achieving a certain class of medals on every level in a particular domain, e.g. earning Bronze medals on every level in the day domain will unlock the Day Bronze trophy. There are 12 trophies of this type
Achieving a certain class of medals on every level of every domain, i.e. on every level in the game. For instance, earning a Bronze medal on every level of every domain will unlock the World Bronze trophy. There are 3 trophies of this type (World Bronze, World Silver and Champion of Dawn). These will be the last trophies you unlock

Each level has 3 medals: Bronze, Silver and Gold. You are awarded a bronze medal simply for completing a level but Silver and Gold have timed requirements. The Trophies stack so achieving Gold medals in every level on a particular domain will unlock the trophies for achieving bronze and silver medals on that domain too. The Time taken to achieve 100% will be heavily skill dependent. In the Trophy Guide you will find a video walkthrough for each level, which shows you how to complete every level within the required time frame. Alternatively, you can use the following playlist which contains walkthroughs for every level: LINK

Controls: I have included this section here in case you find the control scheme to be confusing or ambiguous. By default the controls for the game are as follows:

- Jumping and charging. To jump, Aaru must be on some sort of ground/platform. Charging is essentially a fast dash. To charge, you must be mid-air, for instance, pressing after jumping will cause Aaru to charge.
- Firing Aaru's orb. This will cause Aaru to fire an orb in the direction of the pointer (see ). Holding will cause Aaru to fire an orb with less force.
- Teleporting. This will cause Aaru to teleport to the position of the orb. The synergy of firing the orb and teleporting ( and ) is central to the game.
- Movement. This is used for controlling Aaru's position (while mid-air too).
- Aiming. This will control a pointer and Aaru's orbs will be fired in the direction of the pointer.

Walkthrough:

Step 1: Complete the story, achieving a Gold medal on every level
To earn 100% of the trophies in this game, all you are required to do is achieve a gold medal on every level, with the exception of the 3 tutorial levels. All levels are replayable, so there are many different routes to 100%. However, after completing a level for the first time, I advise you to go for the Gold medal straight away (assuming you didn't get the gold medal on your first attempt), this is because you will be familiar with the layout of the level. This will also be good practise for subsequent levels, which will be harder. While some areas of the game are indeed challenging and even frustrating, the gold medal time requirements are very lenient and you are not required to complete flawless speedruns to achieve gold medals. Practise and perseverance is the key.

[PST Would Like To Thank Jiwan01 for this Roadmap]

Day Bronze

The champion who sneaks is often more ambitious than the one who leaps.
This will be awarded after completing the boss for the day domain. See Day Gold for walkthroughs for every level in the Day domain.
Day Silver

All of day’s caves propose great risks, but not for you, for you know them like your fingernails.
This will be awarded upon achieving a Silver medal on every level in the day domain. See Day Gold for walkthroughs for every level in the Day domain.
Day Gold

Some are afraid of roundhouse kicks, although everyone is afraid of you, for you have mastered the jab.
Walkthroughs along with target times for Gold medals are as follows:

Day Level 1 - 55.0s

Day Level 2 - 1m 40s

Day Level 3 - 1m 15s

Day Level 4 - 1m 25s

Day Level 5 (boss) - 3m 20s
Dusk Bronze

Your body was stuck and slowed down. Your mind however was always already in the night domain.
This will be awarded after completing the boss level for the Dusk domain. See Dusk Gold for walkthroughs of the Dusk domain.
Dusk Silver

Slapped by giant tongues, thrown off by goowalking snails, who cares. You have the silver dusk trophy!
This will be awarded upon achieving a Silver medal on every level in the Dusk domain. See Dusk Gold for Gold medal walkthroughs of the Dusk domain.
Dusk Gold

You could eat goo for breakfast. Dusk’s tentacles seem to cover you and throw you into the right direction. Are you a Dusk local?
Walkthroughs along with target times for Gold medals are as follows:

Dusk Level 1 - 1m 00s

Dusk Level 2 - 1m 20s

Dusk Level 3 - 1m 30s

Dusk Level 4 - 2m 30s

Dusk Level 5 (boss) - 3m 10s
Night Bronze

Some living people are still afraid of the dark, but like you, they survived last night!
This will be awarded after completing the boss level for the Night domain. See Night Gold for walkthroughs of the Night domain.
Night Silver

“BLEEEERQHH!” and “oooHHooo!” no longer shed you, maybe it’s just kind of cute?
This will be awarded upon achieving a Silver medal on every level in the Night domain. See Night Gold for Gold medal walkthroughs of the Might domain
Night Gold

Aaru’s Awakening. You are now also awake, seeing that what may have seemed good your whole life, may actually be a force of suffering.
Walkthroughs along with target times for Gold medals are as follows:

Night Level 1 - 1m 35s

Night Level 2 - 3m 30s

Night Level 3 - 2m 45s

Night Level 4 - 2m 50s

Night Level 5 (boss) - 5m 0s
Dawn Bronze

In Dawn, bronze is more than most can achieve, congratulations!
This will be awarded after completing the boss level for the Dawn domain. See Dawn Gold for walkthroughs of the Dawn domain.
Dawn Silver

In ancient Rome, the people would call you Caesar!
This will be awarded upon achieving a Silver medal on every level in the Dawn domain. See Dawn Gold for Gold medal walkthroughs of the Dawn domain.
Dawn Gold

They say only demigods can hold the Dawn gold trophy.
This is the last set of levels and there is a noticeable increase in difficulty. Walkthroughs along with the target times for Gold medals are as follows:

Dawn Level 1 - 2m 0s

Dawn Level 2 - 5m 0s

Dawn Level 3 - 3m 20s

Dawn Level 4 - 4m 0s

Dawn Level 5 (boss) - 10m 0s
World Bronze

You traveled through the four domains, defeated your own master and spawned a new world!
This trophy will be awarded for earning a Bronze medal on every level in the game, with the exception of the initial 3 tutorial levels. However, you must complete the initial 3 tutorial levels to progress in the game. See Champion of Dawn for more details.
World Silver

Like the silver fox, you accept any challenge presented to you.
This trophy will be awarded for earning a Silver medal on every level in the game, with the exception of the initial 3 tutorial levels. See Champion of Dawn for more details.
Champion of Dawn

Watch out, the gold diggers are coming for you, for you have all the gold in the world!
This trophy will be awarded upon achieving a gold medal on every level in the game, with the exception of the initial 3 tutorial levels. Thus, when you have unlocked Day Gold, Dusk Gold, Night Gold and Dawn Gold, you will automatically unlock Champion of Dawn. Similarly, once you have unlocked Day Bronze, Dusk Bronze, Night Bronze and Dawn Bronze, you will automatically unlock World Bronze.

See here for a Playlist containing walkthroughs for every level: LINK