Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (Game Boy Advance)

Developer | Konami |
Publisher | Konami |
Genre | Action-Adventure, Platforming, 2D Platforming, Metroidvania |
Released | May 6, 2003 |


Achievements
There are 55 achievements worth 584 (3262) points.Authors: PManningFan1618 (36), Infernox (17), SirVG (2)
Old Bones (3) (3) Defeat the Creaking Skull in the Castle Corridor. |
Beastmaster (5) (5) Defeat the Manticore in the Chapel. |
Iron Giant (10) (12) Defeat the Great Armor in the Study. |
Landslide (10) (12) Defeat the Big Golem in the Dance Hall. |
Hunter Hunted (10) (13) Defeat the Headhunter in the Inner Quarters. |
Defying Death (10) (14) Defeat Death in the Clock Tower. |
Amalgamator (10) (14) Defeat Legion in the Underground Cemetery. |
Evil Eye (10) (14) Defeat Balore in the Arena. |
False Prophet (10) (15) Defeat Graham on the Top Floor. |
Raison d'etre (3) (11) Watch the normal ending scene. |
J Who? (10) (15) Defend yourself against a legendary vampire hunter in the Floating Garden. |
Defeat the real master of the castle and obtain the game's true ending. |
Entropy Distilled (25) (279) [No NG+] Earn the game's true ending on Hard difficulty. |
Obtain the Grave Keeper soul. |
Double Jump (3) (3) Obtain the Malphas soul. |
Obtain the Skeleton Blaze soul. |
Obtain the Galamoth soul. |
Concussion (3) (4) Obtain the Kicker Skeleton soul. |
Obtain the Hippogryph soul. |
Soul Seeker (3) (3) Reach level 10. |
Demon Hunter (5) (6) Reach level 20. |
Reach level 30. |
Reach level 40. |
Reach level 50. |
Life Leech (1) (1) Obtain your very first soul. |
Bullet Hell (25) (52) Absorb every type of Bullet Soul. |
Guardian Angels (25) (52) Absorb every type of Guardian Soul. |
Enchanter (25) (52) Absorb every type of Enchanted Soul. |
Open House (10) (48) Explore Dracula's Castle in its entirety. |
Defeat the Chronomage and add its enemy data entry to your bestiary. |
Defeat a Sky Fish and add its enemy data entry to your bestiary. |
The Power to Rule (25) (219) Fill out all of the enemy data and monster drops in your bestiary. |
Deep Pockets (10) (18) Accrue a total of 200,000 gold or more. |
Find the legendary blade once possessed by the Tuatha De Danann, the Claimh Solais. |
Purchase the Soul Eater Ring from Hammer's shop. |
Infinite Power! (25) (54) Obtain the Chaos Ring, the ultimate reward for gaining dominance over the castle's denizens. |
Hard Work (10) (24) Find all 5 pieces of equipment exclusive to Hard difficulty. |
King's Blade (3) (6) Complete Boss Rush in 6 minutes or less as Soma and obtain Excalibur. |
Complete Boss Rush in 5 minutes or less as Soma and obtain the Positron Rifle. |
Complete Boss Rush in 4 minutes or less as Soma and obtain Valmanway. |
Return to Dracula's Castle and defeat the heir apparent in Julius Mode. |
Belmont Legend (10) (26) Defeat every boss in Julius Mode on Hard difficulty. |
Complete Boss Rush in 6 minutes or less as Julius. |
Sword or Whip? (50) (786) Complete Boss Rush in 4 minutes or less as Julius. |
[No NG+ | Hard | Lv.<=2] Defeat the Creaking Skull boss without taking damage. |
[No NG+ | Hard | Lv.<=6] Defeat the Manticore boss in 10 or fewer attacks using only Bullet Souls. |
[No NG+ | Hard | Lv.<=10] Defeat the Great Armor boss without taking damage or utilizing souls. |
[No NG+ | Hard | Lv.<=13] Defeat the Big Golem boss without the use of physical attacks or Bullet Souls. |
Path of the Hunter (10) (108) [No NG+ | Hard | Lv.<=15] Defeat Headhunter without taking damage using only knives, daggers, and bows. |
[No NG+ | Hard | Lv.<=20] Defeat Death without taking damage using only spears and the souls of skeletal creatures. |
[No NG+ | Hard | Lv.<=25] Defeat Legion without taking damage using only a whip and the souls of monsters from the first CV. |
[No NG+ | Hard | Lv.<=30] Defeat Balore without taking damage using only fist-enhancing weapons and martial arts. |
Path of the Warrior (10) (121) [No NG+ | Hard | Lv.<=35] Defeat Graham without taking damage using only physical attacks. |
[No NG+ | Hard | Lv.<=40] Defeat Julius without taking damage using only katanas and fire-based attacks. |
Path of the Goetia (25) (312) [NG+ OK | Hard | Lv.<=50] Defeat Chaos without taking damage using only pistols and the souls of demonic creatures. |
Recent Players:
User | When | Activity | |
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![]() | SrAbortinho | 2023-01-31 00:57:49 | [โฐ26h00:18.61 | Normal+ | Lv.63] Soma is in the Castle Corridor. |
![]() | diegovilliers | 2023-01-31 00:53:18 | [โฐ2h23:37.13 | Normal | Lv.20] Soma is in the Floating Garden. |
![]() | PGRBanBI | 2023-01-31 00:52:29 | Watching the solar eclipse. |
![]() | MrMirv | 2023-01-31 00:40:51 | [โฐ39:38.23 | Normal | Lv.8] Soma is in the Chapel. |
![]() | gheul | 2023-01-31 00:35:29 | [โฐ1h50:41.80 | Normal | Lv.11] Soma is in the Castle Corridor. |
![]() | ossprime | 2023-01-31 00:29:49 | [โฐ16h40:08.98 | Hard+ | Lv.67] Soma is in the Chaotic Realm. |
![]() | rube | 2023-01-31 00:21:02 | [โฐ23:39.38 | Normal | Lv.5] Soma is in the Chapel. |
![]() | Natsumoto | 2023-01-31 00:12:26 | [โฐ24:34.65 | Normal | Lv.5] Soma is in the Castle Corridor. |
![]() | KbzaLuis | 2023-01-31 00:07:26 | [โฐ5h08:44.56 | Normal | Lv.39] Soma is in the Top Floor. |
![]() | benjaminmcp0 | 2023-01-30 23:41:24 | [โฐ4h26:16.86 | Normal | Lv.29] Soma is in the Arena. |
Recent comments: (All 228)
![]() | Vince989 13 Jan 2022 15:14 Except it didn't seem to affect other profiles I saw, I think, I couldn't say who, but on other profiles I think i remember seeing all 55 listed, whereas for me there's only 8. | ||
![]() | Andrevus 13 Jan 2022 15:17 It shows 55 on your profile for me too. Maybe it's a browser error on your end? | ||
![]() | Vince989 13 Jan 2022 15:19 Now it does once again, but I can assure you it didn't merely minutes ago... :P Odd... | ||
![]() | Vince989 13 Jan 2022 15:20 Just for "proof" : https://imgur.com/a/7sW8iGm | ||
![]() | Vince989 13 Jan 2022 15:24 Isolated : It starts to glitch when listing 85 games and above on my profile, and gets worse and worse, say at 150 games : https://retroachievements.org/user/Vince989?g=85 | ||
![]() | Vince989 13 Jan 2022 15:27 (feel free to message me here or elsewhere, and to delete all those comments when not revelant anymore) | ||
![]() | Scott 13 Jan 2022 15:28 that's really wrong :S can confirm that happens here too. Definitely a webpage/browser/data issue of some sort - we need to isolate it a little to start getting a fix | ||
![]() | Vince989 13 Jan 2022 15:31 Probably something wrong in RA's PHP API ? | ||
![]() | Rapid 31 Jan 2022 19:42 it had to be worth more points these path :/ | ||
![]() | Sachiel 1 Feb 2022 21:29 these new boss achievements are absolute dogshit. you spend an hour grinding one soul trying not to overlevel doing it and then you end up kiting the boss to let your magic bar fill up so u can use the soul that you are forced to use. yeah i really feel like im mastering the game now | ||
![]() | bebeidon 1 Feb 2022 22:19 yes i also think there is no fun in it, or have to research youtube to break the game but the authors of this will never aggree, it's ridiculous | ||
![]() | Rapid 2 Feb 2022 17:16 RE-MASTERED | ||
![]() | Sachiel 2 Mar 2022 15:36 Finally remastered. Juluis boss rush was the hardest imo. The boss achievements ended up being fun when they had damageless. The soul or weapon requirements are still stupid. I think if they where just "no magic, no damage + certain level" it would be way simpler and better. | ||
![]() | KevinCarbonara 7 Jun 2022 16:27 These new achievements are awful. Because grinding souls inherently gives XP, it's very difficult to even do them in the same playthrough. They *clearly* belong in a bonus set. | ||
![]() | Seaofstars86 13 Jul 2022 00:14 i would say this set is good almost all the achievements are great except for those infamous hard as hell "paths" achievements and the sword or whip achievement the latter is the only achievement I haven't been able to complete this set just for this achievement, seriously infernox it was really necessary to put this achievement in the normal set you know this achievement is better in the subset-bonus | ||
![]() | Elolawyn 29 Jul 2022 14:00 Thank god i mastered before update | ||
![]() | Kyogre444 7 Sep 2022 13:34 absolute masterpiece | ||
![]() | nahuelescobar 20 Sep 2022 21:38 Mastered!!! definitely the hardest set of the gba trilogy | ||
![]() | bebeidon 21 Sep 2022 00:18 no, the dumbest. | ||
![]() | Davideee 17 Jan 2023 20:59 mastered. |

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Beat the game on Soma Mode (Normal) | |
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Beat the game (All Bosses) on Julius Mode (Normal) | |
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Beat the game on Soma Mode (Hard) | |
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Beat the game (All Bosses) on Julius Mode (Hard) | |
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Complete Boss Rush as quickly as you can. | |
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Complete Boss Rush as quickly as you can. | |
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