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Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide & Roadmap

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Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Roadmap

  • Estimated trophy difficulty: 2/10
  • Approximate amount of time to platinum: 10-12 hours
  • Offline Trophies: 16 (1trophy, 9trophy, 4trophy, 2trophy)
  • Online Trophies: 0
  • Number of missable trophies: 0
  • Glitched trophies: 0, version 1.4 fixes :gold: Fatality on PS4
  • Does difficulty affect trophies?: No difficulty settings available, difficulty is the same for everyone.
  • Minimum Playthroughs: 1 + level clean-up (optional)
  • PS4/PS5 Autopop & Save Transfer: No
  • PS4/PS5 Crossbuy: No
  • Free-Roam / Level Select after Story?: Yes, levels and boss fights can be replayed as many times as you’d like.
  • Release Date: May 27, 2022

Introduction

Welcome to the Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide! Kao the Kangaroo is a reimagination of the platformer franchise from the early 2000s. You can expect lots of fun exploration, hidden collectibles, and some platforming challenges. Unorthodoxly though, you won’t have to collect all collectible types to earn all trophies. For the Platinum, you just need to find all KAO letters, all Runes, all Eternal Wells and Heart Fragments. Feel free to check our Kao the Kangaroo All Collectible Locations. Scrolls, Gems, and Chests aren’t required for any trophy, but, especially Chests award you with loads of coins that are needed for two other trophies, so make it a priority to never ignore these. The other trophies are unmissable and story-related with just a couple related to combat.

Step 1: Play through the story while collecting as much as you can

You can earn the Platinum trophy in one single step! Just finish the story and as you play through the levels, grab as many collectibles as you can to avoid too much backtracking. Feel free to follow our Kao the Kangaroo All Collectible Locations Guide. Following it as you play through the game will net you everything in one playthrough without any backtracking and you will have the Platinum after defeating the final boss.

Step 2: Clean-up (Optional)

During this step, you might need to grab some left-behind KAO letters and Heart Fragments or find remaining Eternal Wells. You shouldn’t have to do any clean-up if you’ve followed our Kao the Collectible Guide.

Useful Tips, Tricks and Guides:

Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide

Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide Full set
Get all other trophies.		 Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide
Earn all trophies in Kao the Kangaroo to unlock Platinum (DLC not needed).
Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide …And lived happily ever after
Finish the game.		 Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide
Unmissable, story-related. This trophy will unlock after defeating the game’s final boss, The Eternal Warrior.
Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide Warm up
Complete the tutorial with Walt		 Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide
Unmissable, story-related. This trophy unlocks upon completing Walt’s Dojo, which acts as a tutorial for the game’s base mechanics.
Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide Out of Bubblegum
Find and defeat Terror		 Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide
Unmissable, story-related. This trophy unlocks after defeating Terror. This boss fight has three different phases.

Phase 1: simply avoid his incoming attacks and punch him when his head starts reeling. Repeat this twice more.

Phase 2: avoid his tornados and when you see blue stones on the ground, pick one up and throw it at the chandelier. Repeat this twice more.

Phase 3: avoid his tornados and as you do, make your way up to the three Eternal World switches to deactivate his shield.
Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide Another day at the office
Defeat Jayabaya		 Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide
Unmissable, story-related. This trophy unlocks after defeating Jayabaya. This boss fight has three different phases.

Phase 1: simply avoid his attacks and spam your punches when you have an opening.

Phase 2: get rid of the enemies first. Then, pick up a fire charge and use your air tail spin attack to deflect the incoming barrels to return them to Jayabaya. Repeat this twice more.

Phase 3: the third phase is very similar to the first, with the only difference that Jayabaya uses different attacks. The one you only need to watch out for is when he puts his shield up and spams purple waves at you. When he does that, you need to locate the crystal that deactivates the shield and destroy it.
Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide Reborn
Defeat The Oldest One		 Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide
Unmissable, story-related. This trophy unlock after defeating Jayabaya. This boss fight has only two phases.

Phase 1: use the fire charges to thaw out the mirrors and then use these to deflect the projectiles she shoots. When she’s down, punch away. Repeat twice more.

Phase 2: grab some ice charges from the dispenser in order to hit her ice mimics. Keep doing so until you find the real one. Then, when she’s not made of ice anymore, she will start attacking you. When she stops and you see an icon above her head, go in and throw a few punches. Repeat twice more.
Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide Reunited
Beat The Eternal Warrior		 Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide
Unmissable, story-related. This trophy unlock after defeating Jayabaya. This boss fight has two phases.

Phase 1: when platforms rise up from the ground, use them to reach a rock and throw it at him. Repeat twice more.

Phase 2: use the different elemental powers to reach an Eternal World switch. Then, drop down to the Eternal Warrior and slap him good. Repeat this twice more, making sure you use the correct elements.
Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide KAO!
Collect the KAO letters on all levels		 Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide
» Kao the Kangaroo All Collectible Locations
Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide Healthy
Unlock all extra heart slots		 Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide
» Kao the Kangaroo All Collectible Locations
Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide Find’em All
Collect all the Kaopedia entries about Foes		 Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide
Unmissable, story-related. Each level has different enemy types. When you kill an enemy type for the first or second time, this will drop a scroll and unlock its entry in the Kaopedia. For this trophy you need to collect all foe-related scrolls, so make it a habit to kill foes anytime you see any. This trophy should unlock halfway through the level called The Sparkly Funfair.

Here’s a list of all enemy types and their location:

  1. Stinker: The Dark Forest, The Lava Caves
  2. Frogster: The Dark Forest
  3. Range Frogster: The Dark Forest
  4. Terror: boss fight
  5. Bongo: The Durian Valley
  6. Buba, Guba, and Tuba: The Muscle Brothers: scattered across the Hungry Jungle levels
  7. Glider: found across the Hungry Jungle levels
  8. Fringer: The Frosty Canyon
  9. Sheep Master: The Hot Springs
  10. Piranha Keeper: The Hot Springs
  11. Piranha: The Hot Springs
  12. Pogo Bouncer: The Hot Springs
  13. Beakster: The Sparkly Funfair
  14. The Overseer: The Sparkly Funfair
Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide Master Key
Collect all the runes		 Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide
» Kao the Kangaroo All Collectible Locations
Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide Flawless Victory
Defeat one of the bosses without receiving any damage		 Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide
As the trophy description says, defeat one of the bosses without suffering any damage. All levels can be replayed, including boss fights. Choose whichever one you want and upon defeating your chosen boss, this trophy unlocks. None of the boss fights are particularly challenging, so it’s just a matter of doing it with the one you like the best.
Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide Between Worlds
Find and complete all of the Eternal Wells		 Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide
» Kao the Kangaroo All Collectible Locations
Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide Health Insurance
Have 20 lives in total		 Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide
To unlock this trophy, your life counter has to show 20. While you can find 1-2 lives in each level, most of them will have to be bought from any of the vendors found across the hub worlds. Each life costs 500 Ducats and you can buy as many as you want, provided that you have the right amount of Ducats. If a store runs out of lives, travel to any other hub world or level to spawn them again. If you’ve been thoroughly collecting Ducats, you should be able to unlock this trophy by the end of The Hungry Jungle. Once your counter reaches 20 lives, this trophy will unlock.
Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide Fatality
Defeat five enemies at once with a finisher		 Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide
The best place to achieve this is in The Dark Forest level. Halfway through the level you will reach an area with lots of Frogster enemies, most of which are on a performing stage. Lure them all to you and land one punch to each one of them to weaken them first, ensuring you don’t get hit as this will deplete your rage bar. After you’ve filled up your rage bar, make sure that they’re all relatively close to each other and when you see the :triangle: prompt above your head, press it to land the finishing move and hopefully unlock this trophy.
Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide Mystery of the Volcano
Wear an outfit from Kao 3		 Kao the Kangaroo Trophy Guide
To unlock this trophy, you need to buy two specific items of clothing from any of the vendors found across the different hub worlds. From the first row you need to buy the fourth item from the left (hat, 750 Ducats) and from the second row you need to buy the fourth item from the left (brown shirt, 750 Ducats). This outfit is a callback to Kao the Kangaroo 3: Mystery of the Volcano.

 

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  2. I got the final heart piece and it now reads that I have 10 total. However, the trophy didn’t pop for me. I’ve tried everything I can to get it to pop since, but it’s useless. What a disappointing experience to be screwed out of a trophy for no reason. 🙁

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    • same…

      did you buy the last heart piece or find it in the worlds? i see reports that if you buy the last heart pieces it may not pop.

    • It does, Sony just hasn’t put the PS4 list on servers yet, hence it doesn’t sync yet. You can already earn the trophies and they are stored offline on your PS4. Once Sony puts the list live you can sync it retroactively and the trophies will show up in your profile.

  5. the trophy ”beteende worlds” doesn’t pop up after beating all 14 wells. will try to beat all of them again and see of it pops up!
    (the ps5 version)

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  7. For me KAO letters and health hearts glitched :/
    Tried without patch but crystal caverns level is so broken it cannot be finished. And that was the level with the last letter. Mess of a game

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  8. Just adding to what others have said, the majority of trophies are bugged. For the wells/scrolls, you can just redo any well or collect a random scroll. But for the KAO letter, heart fragments and runes, you’re out of luck as it seems the game needs to register another example of you collecting one of the items for it to pop the trophy.

    Overall, a teribbly buggy game. I made a new save file to try and speed run the collectibles, but one of the letters didnt count as registered and now has disappeared from the game, making it impossible for me to get all the letters. This happened on the SECOND level!

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  9. The find em all trophy is bugged on ps5, the pogo enemy scroll didn’t unlock and have tried beating it numerous times as well

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    • Same here. I replayed the entire game got all scrolls and trophy still hasn’t popped

    • I closed the game and came back the Day After. After collecting a life in the Durian Valley It unlocked.

  11. Find ’em all trophy is bugged for me on PS5. I’m missing terror scroll. I beat him around 20 times and it wont drop

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    • The terror data is actually supposed to pop by grabbing the scroll in front of his lair. There isn’t one that drops from him.

    • The same as starting them for the first time ;)
      There is level selector in menu but it doesn’t work so you need to travel to any hub and then to level where you missed something.
      Good luck!

  13. The Find Em All trophy is definitely bugged on the PS5. The only one I am missing is the scroll in front of Terror’s lair. But it hasn’t been there at all.
    Is the only solution here to play the whole game again? Just for that one trophy.

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  15. Anyone have the bug in the crystal caverns where the crystals at the end won’t slide across the ice? Did you find any fix?

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  17. Fatality trophy still bugged as of 24/06/22 on PS4 edition. Waiting on a patch from the devs. Feels like it should be here by now

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  20. The between worlds trophy did not come to me. I collected 14 challenges. Is there a problem or what should I do?

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