Shantae: HGH – Non-Shop Collectables Hero Mode Route

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Shantae: Half Genie Hero – Non-Shop Collectables Hero Mode no WTTD Route
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Based on the 100% Hero Mode no WTTD route, which was based on writings off of Taconator7's original route and just changed what I felt needed to be changed, with some help from Xsczo, GreenZSaber, Ryuujinx, HCFWesker, and srs_seth

This route does not use the “Warp Through The Danger” (WTTD) glitch. For an explanation head here: http://pastebin.com/ksRyLKjb and for a video head here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKRH4Nn_97s

Introduction
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-Hold right.


Scuttle Town Square #1
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-Talk to Mimic.
-break pots for up to 6 gems
-Talk to the Bath Lady to get the *Sales Slip*.
-Talk to the Shopkeeper to obtain the *Magnet*.
-Talk to Mimic.
-Talk to Sky to get the (Whistle) and go to Main Street.

Main Street #1
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Area 1: Scuttle Town
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-Run to right as Monkey, stopping to break any large pot.
-At the second pool of water, go into the tunnel on the right as Crab to get (Green Stone). Exit as Crab

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Area 2: Burning Town
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-Fly directly up to get (Waterfall Relic).
-Fly right to the portal and get (Monkey Bullet).
-Head straight to the restaurant through the right side, breaking the pots on the right-hand side of the wall on the way down.
-In the restaurant, kill tinkerbats until *Health Permit* drops.
-Go out the left side as Monkey and climb the staircase.
-In the staircase, go into the small tunnel to get [Heart Holder 1/2 (1/12)].
-Run to the left and talk to the Cook to get *Salted Caramel*.
-Run all the way right to the exit.

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Boss 1: POOPTOOT
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-After you hit the barrel, drop down immediately.
-Ideally, this boss can be three cycled.


Scuttle Town Square #2
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-Talk to the Maiden at the end of town to get the *Mermaid Falls Map*.
-Get 20 gems along the way from all the pot
-If you don't have 160 gems after breaking all of the pots either reset or enter and exit the gallery. The pots nearby will respawn for an extra 12+ gems (more depending on your luck with the small pots)
-Go to the Item Shop and Buy (Fireball), (Pike Ball) and (Super Pike Ball) for 160 Gems
-Talk to Sky and go to Mermaid Falls.

Mermaid Falls #1
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Area 1: Waterfalls
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-Monkey through the first area until you reach the first waterfall in the 2nd area.
-Use the Crab to go up it for (Harpy Talon).
-When going down the waterfall, detransform RIGHT as you go down it to cancel the waterfall animation, which will drop you down to the higher platform instead of the lower one.
-Use Super Pike Ball to break a Large Pot to your right, then transform into monkey and head to the portal next to 2nd waterfall.
-Use Elephant to push the block and get (Mermaid Dance).
-With Harpy, fly directly up and right to go to the exit.

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Area 2: Mermaid Factory
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-Use Harpy to fly all the way to the right wall.
-Use Elephant to unblock the room and get (Crab Claw).
-Go left into the first body of water, and cut the grass to get *Blobfish Kid 1/5*
-Stay as crab, and go into the body of water nearest the room exit to the left, and cut the grass to find <Sunken Soul 1/7 (1/10)>. [NOTE: You will likely take damage on the way to the  Sunken Soul, which is pretty risky this early in the game especially when Data Chip Early is right after this. You can also get this during the 2nd trip through factory right after stomping the flower, it's only around 1.5 seconds slower if that]
-Back in the first room, from the right, go into the second body of water to find *Blobfish Kid 2/5*.
-After that, drop down and cut the grass to the right to get *Blobfish Kid 3/5*.
-Then, continue left to get <Sunken Soul 2/7 (2/10)>.
-Go past the main platform with a flower on it into the second body of water to get *Blobfish Kid 4/5*
-At the very beginning of the Factory, go into the water and cut the grass to obtain *Blobfish Kid 5/5*
-With all five Blobfish Kids found, fly right back to Grandma Blobfish to get *Race Ticket 1/2*.
-After leaving the cave, fly up + left and get the large pot sitting on the platform.
-Go to the leftmost wall to break some pots, then go directly up, skipping the last large pot right before the portal until you exit it.
-In the portal at the top, get (Bat Dance).
-Go to the Data chip room, breaking 2 more Large Pots on the way.
-Get (Data Chip) early by jumping on the fake spikes (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdYXjLt5E28 )
	-Do a short hop to get on the spikes, regular hop to get to the room
	-Do not need to do a running jump off the spikes, just inch your way left until the monkey is standing on air, then jump and grab the platform
-Transform into Bat and leave the data chip room, monkey bullet to the next area.
-Whip the two gator workers five times then use two Fireballs on them to get *Gator Steaks*.
-CONSOLE ONLY STRAT: talk to Tuki and buy (Warp Dance) for the sick console only strat during the Tassel Town chase sequence.


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Area 3: Factory Escape
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-An autoscroller, make sure to grab as many gems and Oranges as you can.
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Boss 2: Giga Mermaid
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-Use Harpy Talon to break all 6 locks, starting from down left and going counterclockwise.
-On the second phase, use Harpy to dodge the initial attack and position near the center left.
-Spam Harpy Talon on the Giga Mermaid's head gem for a one cycle kill.

Scuttle Town Square #3
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-Talk to the girl at Sky's Hatchery to get *Bird Seed*.
-Talk to the man at the Item Shop to get *Copper Ore*.
-Buy (Metronome) for 50 Gems
-Talk to Mimic.
-Talk to Mayor Scuttlebutt at the end of town to get the *Tassel Town Map*.
-Talk to Sky and go to Tassel Town.


Tassel Town #1
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Area 1: Outskirts
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-Right from the beginning transform into Mouse, then clip through the slope while holding left
-You should hear yourself fall into the water, keep holding left until you see the underwater room w/ gargoyles shooting fire.
-You should also hear splashing as you press left and right. Press right to hear the right splash.
-Jump, hold right slightly then hold left once the screen stops scrolling.

-Fly straight up until you see the room right before the Spider Portal Room. Hold left and Harpy Clip to get inside.
-At the portal, use Elephant to get (Spider Dance). Then use Monkey to jump up to the small tunnel in order to exit the room.
-Fly to the upper-right of the portal to break two large pots, then head to the exit.

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Area 2: Tower
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-Use Monkey to climb the tower for the most part, except for breaking pots or whipping blocks along the way.
-grab the 2 pots to the left of the first dragon head with monkey bullet, then the next one right after with super pike ball
-There will be a set of 3 tunnels right after the first Dragon Head, the one on the right leads to another Dragon Head, go up that way and Harpy clip through the blocks right next to that Dragon Head.
-whip the blocks to get past, then monkey up the tower, push another block, then grab that large pot with Super Pike Ball
-When you see a large block on the right hand side near a Large Pot, push it with Elephant to get to a chest holding [Gallery Key 2/4 (2/10)].
-Eventually you will grab a ring and go up through a Monkey tunnel to reach two Dragon Heads

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Console Version:
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-Break the left one and Dryad clip through the mouse maze, then use Monkey + Harpy Clip to get [Heart Holder 1/4 (2/12)].
-Clip into the room that has the portal to Mouse Bite with Gemjug, use Mouse to exit.
-Go up to Heart Holder up top of the tower [Heart Holder 2/4 (3/12)], then Dryad Clip through the left wall and use Harpy to fly over the top of the oob area and hit the loading zone for the exit.

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PC Version:
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-Clip into the room that has the portal to Mouse Bite with Gemjug.
-Clip into the wall on your right, then fly up and detransform once back inbounds. Gemjug clip again and fly straight up to land right near the door (or just fly around but my method looks cooler so shut up). Exit into Area 3

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Area 3: Ruins
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-On the first section, fly low until you get to the chest containing [Gallery Key 3/4 (3/10)].
-After that, break the two large pots and move on to the second section.
-In the second section, fly high until you see a chest inside of a small tunnel.
-Fly up to the small crevice and do a Harpy Clip to reach the [Heart Holder 1 or 2/4 (2 or 3/12)].
-Crawl out of the alcove, and fly above everything towards the third section.
-In the third section, break the large pot and then proceed to fly over everything again.
-Fly down before the room to Wilbur to talk to Tuk
- Buy (Dryad Dance) and (Warp Dance) for 300 Gems

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Boss 3: Wilbur
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-Use Fireball or Elephant to hit the molten rocks and hit Wilbur's eye by spamming Storm Puff (PC users have to spread them out while running, console can just sit and spam 3 in the same spot)

Tassel Town #2
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Area 1: Outskirts
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-This time from the beginning do the mouse clip again and follow the same steps as last time, but instead of transforming into Harpy once you drop down into position...
-hold left and transform into Dryad 4 times, then detransform and hold down + left to enter the pipe from out of bounds.
-Open the chest and grab the [Heart Holder 3/4 (4 or 5/12)].
-Exit the pipe and navigate out of the underwater chamber as Crab until you exit the pipe up top.
Once outside collect <Sunken Soul 3/3 (6/10)>  then whistle out and return to Tassel Town.
-Transform into Harpy and head right
-Go into the first body of water to find <Sunken Soul x/3 (x/10)>.
-Once you reach a big quicksand pit under some large pots, do Iron Slab early (video using Elephant clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm6OPw3QhGo)
(video using Dryad clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2CsLoh9auw)
-Exit the pipe as Mermaid and grab the <Sunken Soul 2/3 (4/10)> outside.
-Go back inside the pipe and Warp Dance to Tower.

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Area 2: Tower
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-Talk to the man to get (Elephant Stomp).
-Fly up and break the two pots near the first Dragon Head, then use Elephant to smash through.
-In this room, break the two pots and stomp on the flower to get *Remains 1/5*
-Monkey up the right side until you reach the second Dragon Head, then in the room beyond, get *Remains 2/5*.
-After you get up the next floor, get through the first Mouse Maze, break the pot and open the chest containing [Gallery Key 1/4 (1/10)].
-skip the next Dragon Heads you'll see on the left side between now and the 3rd remains
-Break the Dragon Head next to the monkey tunnel on the right side to get *Remains 3/5*.
-Monkey up until you see 2 dragon heads next to each other in a room with a bunch of chains. Charge through the top one to get *Remains 4/5*.
-Dryad Clip through the ledge of the path that led you into the room, transform into Elephant, Stomp down on the dragon head and enter the mouse maze block room.
-Go to the left hand wall where the mouse maze is and mouse clip to get the [Gallery Key 4/4 (4/10)] inside the chest.
-Go back up above the ring through a Monkey tunnel to reach a split path leading to two Dragon Heads.
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CONSOLE VERSION:
-Go right to the Dragon Head that guards the remains
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PC VERSION:
-Break the left one and Dryad clip through the mouse maze, then use Monkey + Harpy Clip to get [Heart Holder 1/4 (2/12)].
-Fly all the way up the tower to open a chest containing [Heart Holder 4/4 (4/12)].
-hit the spikes on your right to respawn outside the left Dragon Head
-Go down and around to get to the Dragon Head that guards the remains on the right
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-break it and collect *Remains 5/5*
-After collecting all the Remains the game will teleport you to the bottom of the tower.
-Talk to the man again to get *Sick*, whistle out and head to Main Street.

Main Street #2
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Area 1: Scuttle Town
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-At the first pool of water, enter tunnel on the left as Crab to get [Heart Holder 2/2 (5/12)]. Ledge clip on the edge and follow the steps in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvNPt9c7E9Q to enter the Adventure Guy room in order to obtain *Vorpal Blade*.
-Warp to Burning Town.

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Area 2: Burning Town
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-Head straight to the restaurant through the right side, breaking the pots on the right-hand side of the wall on the way down.
-Fly to the end of the level and break apart a group of five blocks, revealing a flower.
-Stomp the flower to get <Scrap Metal 1/1 (1/5)>.
-Whistle out, and go back to Scuttle Town.


Scuttle Town Square #5
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-Talk to the Warrior Girl to get [Heart Holder 1/1 (6/12)] if you have a Monster Egg right now, if not, just wait until after the next time you go to Mermaid Falls.
-At the end of town, talk to Twitch and Vinegar for *Race Ticket 2/2*.
-Talk to Rottytops to get the *Dark Shard*.
-Go to the Item Shop and buy (Scimitar) for 300 Gems
-Maybe consider buying a potion or two for Twitch and Vinegar, they drain your magic + health pretty low and it would save you the trouble of having to dodge enemies frantically.
-Talk to Mimic in order to get the *Cape Crustacean Map*
-Stomp the flower on the left side of town to get <Scrap Metal 1/1 (2/5)>.
-Talk to Sky and go to Cape Crustacean.

Cape Crustacean
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Area 1: Carpet Race
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-Another autoscroller, do whatever you want.
-Harpy will ensure that you take no damage, but it's also slower by a second or so because the game does pause to transform.
-Stay on the left side so that you can quickly land on the carpet at the end.
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Boss 4: Twitch and Vinegar
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-Use Scimitar to do massive damage to both at once.
-With eight hearts, you can afford to jump on top of them and tank the falling damage to kill them faster.
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Area 2: Airship Fleet
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-For the lasers, you can use Magic Mouse (R Button/Right Trigger while jumping + holding forward as Mouse) to pass them without waiting for them to dissipate
-Go to the second airship and drop below deck to find a door.
-Enter the door and stomp the green blocks to get [Gallery Key 1/3 (5/10)].
-At the sixth airship, go below deck to find another door with [Gallery Key 2/3 (6/10)].
-Inside the 11th airship, use Magic Mouse or a well timed Monkey Bullet to get past the lasers and acquire [Heart Holder 1/2 (6 or 7/12)].
-At that one airship that's loading do this if possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8er-xT34Quk otherwise use harpy to wait near it until the ship is fully on screen
-Note: Last room in an airship has a bunch of gems but that's about it
-Make your way to the main airship and go into it.
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Area 3: Main Airship
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-Charge through as Elephant until you reach a spike-lined shaft on the ceiling.
-Fly up it and enter the door to get the (Red Stone).
-In the large room filled with lasers, go to the lower right and drop down the platform.
-Break the pots and stomp the flower to get <Scrap Metal 1/2 (3/5)>, then go right.
-In the fuel room, navigate the waterfalls until you find [Gallery Key 3/3 (7/10)]. Dryad clip to exit.
-Fly up through the laser room, and continue until you see a Monkey tunnel.
-In the Dark Room, fly up and over the spikes
-Break the 2 Large Pots near the door and head right into the room containing (Spider Venom). Exit the room and return to the main area.
-Back at the main area, continue until you find a block puzzle.
Push the right block down, then dryad clip through the wall. Transform into Monkey and jump while going across to skip the puzzle.
-Solve the puzzle, and use Monkey Bullet to navigate the next room and get [Heart Holder 2/2 (7 or 8/12)]
-Kill yourself with the spikes to get back to the main path, then exit.
-Push the block off, fly to the upper right and out of the airship, and use hair whip + Schimtar to break the generator.

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Boss 5: Ammo Baron
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-Keep jumping and hair whipping while letting your scimitars do most of the work.


Scuttle Town Square #6
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Go to the Bath House and talk to the Doctor to get the *Lollipop*.
Talk to Sky and head to Mermaid Falls.

Mermaid Falls #2
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Area 1: Waterfalls
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-Go to the main area and fly up to the top-left corner of the room onto a platform hitting the Mouse Maze next to it, using it to Dryad clip through.
-Navigate a bit left until you can't hold left anymore and do a Mouse Clip to get [Gallery Key 1/3 (8/10)].
-Transform into mouse, enter the maze, and head right to exit it.
-Kill the Naga for a Monster Egg, then transform into Monkey and head over to the right side of the platform with all the pillars. There will be a moving platform on the right side, jump onto it and use Dryad to clip through.
-Do a Dryad Ledge Clip as shown here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJUs8ZIbWpA] to get to the Wizard who will give you the *Light Shard*.
-After that, fly up to near the entrance to factory and use Dryad Clip + Mouse to get [Heart Holder 1/2 (8 or 9/12)].
-Whistle out and head to Scuttle Town.


Scuttle Town Square #7
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[If you didn't talk to the Warrior Girl yet w/ a monster egg, talk to her now to get [Heart Holder 1/1 (10/12)]
-Go to the Item Shop and Buy (Silky Creme) and (Shampoo)
-Talk to Mimic to receive the *Hypno Baron's Castle Map*.
-Talk to Sky and go to Hypno Baron's Castle.

Hypno Baron's Castle #1

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Area 1: Interior
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-At the top of the door you entered from are some blocks. As Harpy break the top 2 layers.
-Dryad Clip through the wall and use monkey to jump around the door and avoid the loading zone.
-Grab the heart holder [Heart Holder 1/1 (11/12)], then Dryad clip through the wall on the left and jump around and over the loading zone to go through the door above.
-Fly up to get (Bat Sonar)
-Fly to Poe's Room and get (Zombie Hamster)
-Either Dryad Clip through the left pillar or GemJug Clip through the right pillar.

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PC VERSION:
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-Jump to the floor below and head to the door on the left.
-Before entering that door transform into Spider, and do the Spider Clip (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cctXgiSqjHQ) to land right next to the exit

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CONSOLE VERSION:
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-get on top of the pillar on the floor below that separates two areas on the floor below, and Dryad Ledge Clip through it to reach the final area below. Head right to exit.


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Area 2: Exterior

-Graveyard skip to skip everything and go right to the entrance.
-How to do: Turn to the wall on the left, transform and detransform into Dryad 4 times to clip through, run left a little till you hit a wall, transform and detransform into Dryad 4 times AGAIN, then jump forward while holding left and you should hit the loading zone easily

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Boss 6: Dual Barons
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-For Phase One, just damage Squid Baron as much as you can with whips and Scimitar.
-For Phase Two, once one Baron is down, the other one will enrage.
-Hypno Baron has less health and is easier to hit, so kill him last.

Scuttle Town Square #9
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-Go to the Item Shop and talk to the Azure Knight to receive *Foxy Grandma Hat*.
-Then, talk to the Grandma Blobfish to get (Mermaid Bubble).
-Talk to Mimic to get the *Risky's Hideout Map*.
-Enter the Art Gallery and unlock all of the doors except the first 2 while also talking to Squid Baron to get <Velvet Poster>.
-Talk to Sky and go to Hypno Baron's Castle.

Hypno Baron's Castle #2
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-Keep going right until you find Abner, who will give you <Squid Poster>.
-Whistle out and go to Mermaid Falls.


Mermaid Falls #3
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Area 1: Waterfalls
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-At the entrance, stomp on the flower to get <Scrap Metal 1/2 (4/5)>.
-dive into the pool of water to the left of the first waterfall as Crab.
-Cut the grass and get the <Sunken Soul 3/7 (5/10)>.
-Use the Mermaid form to traverse the first pool of water and get <Sunken Soul 4/7 (7/10)>.
-In the second screen, go into the first body of water as Mermaid, and then go down, left, and up to get <Sunken Soul 5/7 (8/10)>.
-Go down the water to the bottom and head right, break the blocks in front of you to get <Sunken Soul 6/7 (9/10)>.
Swim right and up to get to the chest holding [Gallery Key 2/3 (9/10)].
-Swim down and break the rock blocking a path to a pipe and go inside, finding [Heart Holder 2/2 (12/12)].
-Proceed to warp to the factory.
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Area 2: Mermaid Factory
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-Make your way to the second screen, then stomp on the flower to get <Scrap Metal 2/2 (5/5)>.
-fly to the right side until you see a breakable block, stomp it with Elephant to get [Gallery Key 3/3 (10/10)].
-Go back into the first body of water as Mermaid, and break the rock to gain access to <Sunken Soul 7/7 (10/10)>.
-After that, whistle out and go to Tassel Town.

Scuttle Town Square #10
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-Enter the Bath House and talk to Hypno Baron to collect <Risky's Ribbon>.
-Talk to Ammo Baron to receive <Risky's Pendant>.
-Go to the Art Gallery, unlock the 1st two doors, and talk to Mayor Scuttlebutt for the (Magical Tiara).
-Then, talk to Squid Baron and claim <Risky's Buckle>.
-Talk to Techno Baron to get <Risky's Cufflink>.
-Talk to Mimic to obtain the <Magical Polarizer>.
-Talk to Sky and head to Risky's Hideout.


Risky's Hideout
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Area 1: Undersea Caverns
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-Do Autoscroller Skip and head to the next area.
	-Easy/Fast Harpy method (doable in all versions?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBhzjPHN5m4
	-Older PC Autoscroller Skip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUcWTrib8oo
	-Console only Autoscroller Skip:
-Or actually just do the autoscroller but be warned it's 2 minutes slower roughly

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Area 2: Volcanic Lair
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-Use Monkey for the first half Harpy for most of the level, except for where other forms are required to progress.
-Ignore every enemy except for the Tinkerslugs blocking your path.
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Boss 7: Risky Boots
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-Focus on doing max damage by making sure that your scimitars are always hitting.
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Boss 8: Tinkerbrain
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-The screws on Tinkerbrain's head will light up as you run in one direction.
-The left screw lights up as you run clockwise (left), and the right screw lights up as you run counterclockwise (right).
-Use Monkey form to accelerate the process.

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Boss 9: Corrupted Genie Realm
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-You can also use scimitars to kill the same genie repeatedly before her shield can activate.
-It takes 10 successful volleys to destroy the Tinkerbrain.
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Area 3: Lair Escape
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-The final autoscroller. Jump over the gaps and grab onto the rings when you can.
-Timing ends on the white flash after escaping.


Thanks for reading. If you have any questions or suggestions, you can reach me, Taconator7, the one who wrote this and not Madtaz who literally stole my hard work from charity on the following platforms:
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