Self-explanatory; unlock all other trophies to unlock this, the game's platinum trophy.

In Chapter 8, Brutal Lands, you'll have a Chaos event right at the start of the level and immediately after that be introduced to the Brutal Maul enemy: they are armoured knights that carry an enormous hammer with which they can unleash a freezing shockwave with a massive area of effect (and this is the move you must avoid).

When you first encounter Brutal Maul there will be two of them: one visible in front of you and one out of sight to the left; the one in front of you can be shot from distance with a rifle - he won't move towards you and it's easy to figure out the range of his shockwave so that it won't reach you; if you go left, there's a little elevated shelf around the structure in the middle of the room which you can perch on and shoot the other Brutal Maul without being hit with his attack - equip a rifle and go for many headshots.

Do not try to get this trophy in melee combat - it's nearly impossible to keep an eye on both Brutal Mauls at once, so inevitably you'll be hit with an attack if you rush into them; content yourself with shooting one of them for trophy purposes, then proceed with as much reckless abandon as you want.

Please see the trophy for Annihilation Kill

Getting 10 kills at once will also unlock the trophy for getting 5 kills at once, but, frankly, there really isn't a good place to do this in the story mode; 5 kills can be achieved in one of the handful of trials that you use to practice a few of the skills you unlock from altars in the game (specifically the trials for Earthquake or any of the "massive" versions of spells: Ignition, Freeze, Heavy Strike), but it can be tricky because you usually won't get more than 6 enemies onscreen at one time; during the final level, Dragon Temple, there will be a couple of instances where you'll have the necessary amount of enemies onscreen at the same time but it's very tricky to get them to group together in order to kill 10 at once.

The better option is to do this is in an Outbreak match: absorb enough Chi to unlock the "massive" category of spells: Massive Freeze, Massive Ignition, Massive Heavy Strike; make sure you don't take out any enemy outposts so that there is something to keep your own troops busy/kill them off (to keep them from getting kills you're after), then do one of two things: either let the enemy overrun your forces - simply stay by your base and wait for the enemy forces to come to you -; or run on ahead to the enemy base in order to intercept a group and get first crack at any respawning groups; once you're up against a substantial enough force, melee attack enough to fill your magic gauge and unleash a massive attack - the most effective thing to do is to use either a regular fire/ice spell and follow it up instantly with a massive heavy strike (note that you'll need the Rage Saving ability to pull off 2 consecutive magic attacks).

Outbreak also has the added virtue of immediately informing you of how many enemies you hit with any of your "massive" attacks, thereby giving you a sense of how to develop a strategy for getting this done if you're having trouble.

Self-explanatory; die frequently during the game and this should come towards the end of your first playthrough as all kills are recorded, even when you die; die infrequently and this will have to be unlocked during your hard playthrough: your statistics will carry over to your second playthrough via chapter select.

It's worth pointing out that any enemies you kill in Outbreak will also contribute towards this trophy.

A counterattack occurs when you are about to be struck by an enemy attack and appears over top of the attacking enemy, giving you a brief window of time to counter the attack: hold the in the direction of the enemy and press to succesfully counter.

Only certain enemies give you the opportunity to counter their attacks, and these tend to be slow, heavy enemies: Brutal Zombie Heavy, Brutal Zombie Fighter, Tribal Zombie Heavy, Tribal Zombie Fighter, and Humans wielding large swords.

It should be noted that the same combination - + - is also used to perform finishing moves on weakened enemies: finishing moves are not the same as counters and will not contribute to this trophy; counterattacks are non-lethal, so if you do an move that results in the death of an enemy, it will not count as a counterattack.

Frequent deaths will probably net you this by the end of the game; if not, the best place to farm counters for this trophy is in the final room of the ninth chapter, Brutal Town: it's a large room inside the castle, and when you enter it the first time there will be several Chaos Observers you'll have to deal with; killing all of them triggers a new wave that includes a couple of Brutal Zombie Heavies and several Brutal Zombie Fighters - each of these enemies will offer you multiple chances at counterattacks and the checkpoint is right at the start of this wave, so take out all but a single enemy, then let that enemy kill you in order to restart the wave.

There are a couple of places you can do this more or less organically: against the Shaman Boss at the end of chapter 2, Jungle, or against the Brutal Lich enemies you'll encounter at the broken bridge in chapter 8, Brutal Lands, or against the Vicar of Chaos at the end of chapter 8; in each of these instances there will be several corals for you to dash to (hold to target the coral, to dash to it), and in the instances of the two boss fights the corals will encircle the arena, thus facilitating easy movement between them. The problem with the Shaman Boss is that going in a complete circle will result in you dashing to the boss and landing on the bridge, and the somewhat sluggish movement speed of the camera makes it tricky to go back and forth between the corals in this location; against the Vicar of Chaos, there's simply a good chance that he will hit you with an attack that will knock you to the ground while you're trying to do this; so, if you're going to try to do this in either of these locations, make sure to do it after you've killed the boss.

You can do this anywhere, though: simply make use of any location with a handful of corals gathered together - of which there will be several throughout the game - that you can dash back and forth between; and remember that it just needs to be done 30 times consecutively, not with 30 different corals (there is no such place in the game): clear an area of enemies and work on doing this at your leisure.

This will unlock after finding 16 notes; please see Collector for more information.

Notes emit a tremendous glow of light and, if you're looking in their direction, are impossible not to notice; having said that, there are a couple that you will have to go out of your way to find, but, luckily, those instances are the exceptions.

There are 31 notes to be found across the 10 chapters of the game and this trophy will unlock once you've found all of them. Click here - Blades of Time Collectibles Guide - for a complete collectible guide.

There are 4 types of equipment in the game: Swords, Rifles, Rings, and Amulets; each piece of equipment gives Ayumi a different buff to at least one of her abilities, and those buffs are stackable.

You will acquire each type of equipment very early in the game, but this trophy won't unlock until the third chapter, Human Base, when you find the Machine Gun in a treasure chest; the reason for this is the word "find" in the trophy description: this means acquiring the piece of equipment by finding it in a chest; you'll actually acquire a rifle in the first chapter of the game, but because it wasn't "found" it won't count towards this trophy.

This can be done against AI controlled enemies in the mode Outbreak Single, which is basically a conquest type of mode: both sides spawn on opposing sides of the map from a base, and each side has an equal number of outposts in the middle of the field; the goal is to progress to the other side of the map, destroying the enemy forces, outposts, and, ultimately, their base.

You get to choose a handful of abilities at the start of the match, and each time you die your collected Chi will allow you to buy more abilities. Also, you have an army to help you along that will respawn over time, but you have to be careful with your own deaths and respawns: too many of them and you'll start to lose outposts at your base, the ability to spawn fighters and, ultimately, the match.

Outbreak can be pretty challenging if you decide to just run headlong into everything; but there is a very easy way to win a match against the AI: for your three abilities at the start of the match, choose Earthquake, Heavy Strike, and Ayumi's evade move; when you spawn, let your troops move on ahead of you so that they will arrive at the first enemy outposts ahead of you - they'll immediately start attacking the outposts and be targeted by the outposts' magic missiles. At this point, if you don't attack an outpost yourself it won't target you because of how many of your troops are attacking them. Move past your troops and intercept enemy forces - make sure you're out of range (and stay out of range) of outpost attacks and take out the enemy forces by yourself. Earthquake (press then hold down + ) requires no magic in order to be used so abuse it frequently; if you're taking a lot of damage press in order to activate Ayumi's auto-evade - half of all attacks will miss her for a time; once you've got magic in your meter start unleashing Heavy Strikes, spam Earthquake if you risk being overrun, and always stay ahead of your own troops.

The strategy here is pretty simple: if you're always ahead of your own troops, the enemies will stop to attack you, and this allows your troops to work on the outposts without being distracted. Obviously, this requires you to defeat all opposing enemies yourself, but with the difficulty on normal, being out of range of outpost attacks, and being familiar with the controls should make this pretty easy. Once all the outposts have been destroyed, move on to the enemy base. There are two more outposts there, and you're going to have to work on them from afar - let your troops run up to them, provide support by shooting from a distance (make sure to have the Old Wars Rifle equipped - it does the most damage per shot of any rifle and you can fire it while moving; personally, I find Machine Guns are useless in Outbreak because you can't move while firing them). Once the enemy ranks have thinned, run in to get some attacks on the outposts, then retreat to give your health time to restore. Doing this for a while will whittle down the health of the final outposts, leaving the base defenseless - get in there and destroy it.

One final note on Outbreak: Story mode items can be used in Outbreak, and any items you acquire in Outbreak can be used in Story mode; make sure to equip your character to suit your style of play before the match starts - I find that any equipment that gives you health or speed buffs are particularly useful for this mode.

This is the only trophy of that game that needs to be done online.

Straightforward enough: play a Vs. match against another human player, find that player on the battlefield, and kill them. You have to be the one to deliver the finishing blow for this trophy to unlock - if the enemy player is killed by your troops or one of your outposts it will not count as your kill.

It might prove to be difficult finding someone to play against online, so if you would like to find someone to assist you in getting this trophy, you can try your luck with posting your details in the boosting thread for the game: Trophy Boosting Thread.

There are 6 bosses in Outbreak, and the game will let you know when a new boss or enemy type has appeared; the bosses are:

Blaster (this is Brutal Maul from the Story mode)
Invisible Assassin (this is Chaos Slasher from the Story mode)
Chaos Monster (in the mass of Chaos Monsters that come for you, one is considered the "boss" - just make sure to kill them all)
Giant Spider (I've gotten boss awards for killing both the Giant Poisonous Spider and the regular silver Spider, so I do recommend making sure to kill them both)
Skyguard (this is the Skyguard Commander from chapters 4 and 7 of the Story mode)
Shaman (this is the Shaman Boss from chapters 2 and 9 of the Story mode).

All of the bosses will spawn over time, but the Shaman seems to have some kind of mercurial requirement that I admit is completely beyond my ability to figure out - out of around 10 matches split between Brutal Lands and Jungle (avoid Desert like the plague), he spawned roughly half the time, seemingly without any rhyme or reason: he appeared when I died more than 5 times, when I hadn't died at all, when I had only one outpost left, when I had all outposts left, about 5 minutes into a match, about 15 minutes into a match...The only advice I can give for getting him to spawn is to keep playing until he does.

As with killing a human player, you must be the one to actually defeat the bosses in order for it to count as your kill: bosses killed by your troops or outposts do not count towards this trophy.

Another self-explanatory trophy: simply play Outbreak 5 times; 5 matches against the AI will do the job, and you don't have to win them or even accomplish a single thing in them - the match simply needs to be completed in order for your progress to be saved.

I will point out, though, that any new items you may be rewarded with in Outbreak can be used in the Story mode of the game, which might prove helpful to anyone looking for a bit of extra help going into a Hard difficulty playthrough.

Please see Treasure Hunter for more information.

Ayumi carries a compass in the game; pressing activates "compass mode"; in this mode, a yellow triangle will indicate the direction you need to travel in order to continue with the story; if there is also a red triangle present, that means there is a chest nearby; the red triangle will spin in circles when you're next to the chest; at a certain point in chapter 2, Jungle, all chests until the end of the game will henceforth be invisible, and Ayumi will have to cast an order spell - press - while next to each chest in order to reveal it.

When not in "compass mode", the compass can be seen hanging from Ayumi's belt; if it starts emitting a blue light, that's your indication that there is a chest nearby, and you should activate your compass in order to try and find it.

There are 22 chests to be found across the 10 chapters of the game and, yes, they do indeed have to be found on both difficulty levels; while some might see this as an ordeal, the boon to this is that you will find new and better gear the second time around (provided you played on Normal first). Also, the chests will appear in the exact same locations on both difficulties, so a single guide will be enough for locations on both difficulties.

And to see that guide, click here: Blades of Time Collectibles Guide.

The time rewind double attack can only be done against certain enemies: Brutal Mauls, Brutal Zombie Heavies, and Skyguard Heavy Infantry (the giant guys with the backpack that regenerates their health; and it's questionable that they actually count, seeing as how you only use your Time Rewind to disable their backpacks, not to actually kill them).

This is how the time rewind double attack works: do enough damage to the enemy and you'll get an prompt above that enemy; hitting makes you jump on the enemy and you'll then get a prompt - tap and Ayumi will start to pound on the enemy until he shakes her off; once Ayumi has been shaken off, hold down to rewind time until you see Ayumi's "clone" jump onto the enemy and start doing that pound move, let go of , and if you're close enough to the enemy you'll get another prompt - your "clone" will jump off the enemy as you jump onto him, and this will result in the finishing move that is required for this trophy.

Even with frequent deaths you will probably not get this by the end of the game; statistics do carry over via chapter select, and you will probably get this during your second playthrough, but there is a place where you can easily farm these kills if you want to, and that place is the final room of the ninth chapter, Brutal Town: it's a large room inside the castle, and when you enter it the first time there will be several Chaos Observers you'll have to deal with; killing all of them triggers a new wave that includes a couple of Brutal Zombie Heavies and several Brutal Zombie Fighters - this move can only be done against the Brutal Zombie Heavies, of which there will be two; once you've killed both of them, let yourself die and the checkpoint will restart.

Any time you're attacking enemies - either melee attacks or shooting attacks - you can hold down until you see another Ayumi appear onscreen; let go of and you will have another Ayumi onscreen attacking the target you've been attacking; as the "time rewind" function winds down, your screen will start to go a deep red colour, and it is during these moments that your "Berserk" buff is active - if the enemy you're fighting dies during this buff, the kill will count towards the trophy.

There really isn't a need to farm this as it will come with time, and it will be very helpful to you on your hard playthrough to make extensive use of this ability in combination with your machine gun to help thin out groups of monsters, especially heavies - multiple Ayumis firing machine guns into mobs will make quick work of even the most difficult situations.

Enemies with magic armour will have a red bubble around them; they cannot be harmed while the armour is active, and it can only be destroyed by "fast shooting" - having more than one Ayumi onscreen and peppering the target with bullets. Have a machine gun equipped, start unloading into the target, and after you've put a third or more of a clip into him hold down until another Ayumi appears, let go of , and you will now have two machine guns blasting at the target; repeat until the armour is destroyed.

Even with frequent deaths and two playthroughs you're unlikely to be anywhere near getting this trophy unless you've done some serious farming for it; the place to do that farming is the final room of the ninth chapter, Brutal Town: it's a large room inside the castle, and when you enter it the first time there will be several Chaos Observers you'll have to deal with; killing all of them triggers a new wave that includes a couple of Brutal Zombie Heavies and several Brutal Zombie Fighters - none of the enemies will have Magic Armour when the wave begins; only as you take some of them out will one of them suddenly acquire the armour; across the whole wave you will get two or three enemies with magic armour; if the last enemy is wearing Magic Armour, do not kill him or the wave will end - let him kill you to restart the checkpoint.