Bat Boy: Part 15: Grinding for the Rest of the Seeds
3Before I take on the ACTUAL final stage in this game, I've been curious about the seed shops and wanted to max out Bat Boy's HP & SP as much as I could.
Like I said in Part 14, if you found Rufus in every stage and bought all of his Golden Seeds in each, he'll finally return to his own Shop, like the ones Helsia and Stasia have.
Rufus will have more three more visible Golden Seeds to sell to you for 300 Crystals, but he can also exchange any Red & Green Seeds you either found or bought for further additional Golden Seeds for 50 Crystals each.
And then, if you have enough Golden Seeds, you can still use them to buy more Red & Green Tonics from the sisters for more max HP & SP. So then...
...I decided I needed to get a lot more Crystals so I can run all three shops dry and not need them anymore. Doing this is required for 100% completion in this game.
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So I then decided to do several reruns of Ivory Palace to try and get as many Crystals as I could out of it again and again. You can see some amateur speedrun strategies at play, such as using the Bull Rush to get through the stage faster than usual.
This also means I have to keep kicking Captain Ace's ass so that my collected Crystals stick when I beat the level again.
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Eventually, I got all of the Golden Seeds, and subsequently all of the remaining Red & Green Tonics I needed to max out Bat Boy's meters.
Now it's time to take down Lord Vicious once and for all, by heading back to his castle and venturing through the North Tower...