Overview:
Estimated trophy difficulty: 6.0/10
Offline: 12 (1 , 4 , 7 )
Online: 0
Approximate amount of time to 100%: 10-20 hours
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1, but a second playthrough is recommended
Number of missable trophies: 1, Safe Journey
Glitched trophies: None to my knowledge
Do cheat codes disable trophies?: No cheats
From Dust is a strategic adventure game in which the player takes control of the Breath, a godlike figure who watches over the tribe that worships it. Using the powers that you unlock by creating new villages around totems, you protect the tribe and it's villages from the power of nature.
Playthrough 1 - Almost Complete
Playthrough each of the 13 levels paying special attention to the locations of the seven memory stones (detailed in Memories found) and earning 100% vegetation in each level. The good part about the vegetation is that it is done nearly automatically. You have to provide the earth near the vegetation around your villages to spark its growth. If you get your tribe to the portal before reaching 100% vegetation, you can go back to the level via chapter select and bring it up to 100%. You will know if you have reached 100% coverage if there is a leaf icon next to the level in the level select menu. The tutorial level does not count for Green thumb, but the 12 do.
Just by completing the story, you will receive Exhaling, Hell, The end of our journey, and Sanctuary automatically. Those are all story progression trophies and you cannot miss them.
Three of the other trophies Krakatoa, Powermonger, and Amazon are all progression trophies. You will most likely unlock them as you go and progress through the story. However, you can grind them out all at once, if you want to. Lava and the Powers of the Breath first appear in The First Power and you can first move trees in Wildfires. If you happen to miss one, you can go back to any of the levels where lava, trees, or the powers appear and grind through them there.
By the end of your first run through of the game, you should have at least nine trophies and possibly 10 if you went for Safe journey. If you do go for that trophy, then be sure to restart a level as soon as you lose a village. It is riskier to go for everything in one playthrough, but it will also be faster.
Optional Playthrough 2 - Stay Safe My Friends
If you want the easier route for Safe journey, then doing a second speed run will be the way to go. Personally, I would recommend this method as you will know what to expect from each level and you won't have to worry about getting 100% vegetation coverage. The same principles apply though. If you happen to lose a village, restart the level so that it won't count.
Keep in mind that if you do decide to go for a second playthrough, make sure to get Green thumb before starting a new game. It will make things much easier since reaching 100% vegetation will not be a priority on your second playthrough.
The Challenges
Once you are done with the 10 trophies that are related to the story line, it is time to move onto the challenges. There are 30 in all and are unlocked as you progress through the story. As you can expect, the early challenges are quite easy. They do slowly ramp up the difficulty however. By the time you reach the final challenges, you will be experiencing a similar feeling as when you first played through Movements, "How the hell did it get so hard, so quickly?"
That doesn't make the challenges impossible at all though. There are plenty of videos on Youtube to look up if you require help. There is also a Challenge Guide that goes along with Gauntlet to help you get through them.
Clean Up, If Necessary
If you have followed the steps in the road map, then immediately following earning Gauntlet, you will also earn Last Breath to complete your 100%. Last Breath requires four trophies to be unlocked before you can earn it. These are Sanctuary, Gauntlet, Memories found, and Green thumb. If for some reason you missed any of those, then now is the time to clean them up if you want that 100% on your profile.
If you also decided to hold off on the second playthrough for Safe journey, then go back after completing the challenges and start a new game.
Enjoy the game. It is definitely one of the more unique ones that you'll find on PSN.
Controls
- Absorb material.
- Release absorbed material.
- Zoom out.
- Speed up cursor.
- Send villagers to totem, Memory stone, Repel stone, or move totem.
Hold and push - Release all absorbed material at once.
[PS3T Would Like to Thank olsen77 for this Roadmap]