Sylviana: Ai Ippai no Boukensha/Final battles

Return to the house
After you have collected Lucia's Sword from the East Tower (8), make your way back to the mirror image version of your home (H). Go in and speak with the blue creature that lives there. He will rattle off advice to you, before very quickly warping you to a location just outside of the fifth town (E). The advice he gives you is to use the Life Gem on a bridge. There happens to be a bridge two screens to the west. Before you leave, it's advised that you stock up on as much equipment as you can afford.

Walk to the west until you reach the bridge. You do not have to clear all of the enemies from the screen before you try this, but you must be standing on the bridge when you activate the Life Gem. It appears to work better if you are standing on the right half of the bridge. If you succeed, a single blue creature will replace all of the other enemies on the screen. Walk up to it to talk with it, and it will push you across the water and onto the island to the West.

Now that you have access to the island, the only choice is to follow the path across the island until you reach the castle near the bottom. Step inside when you arrive.

(11) Demon island castle
This castle is smaller than the other castle that you investigated, but it's more challenging since the enemies are tougher. The room you arrive in contains a chest that has some bread. From here, it is recommended that you head south two screens, but do not open the chest you find in that room since it contains a thorn. If you choose to use a key to unlock the door and head back up the right path, you'll only find a 3rd Eye.

Instead, head to the room on the left. Ignore the path that continues to the left, as it only leads to a dead-end. Take the center path up to the room above. Unlock the door on the left side to gain access to the chamber of chests, and open the closed one to find the last Heart in the game. This one will increase your health meter to 192 hit points. After you collect it, quickly explore the room above to find a chest with a key, and then return to the previous room.

From here, head to the left. Ignore the room above, as the chest that you'll find there contains a Scythe. But do explore the room below in order to obtain a Tulip. This Tulip will serve as a very useful warp back to the light world and spare you a lot of trouble trying to return home. Come back up to the room above, heal yourself, and Quick Save your game before climbing the stairs.

The boss of this castle will introduce himself as the demon Gengar. He will promise to destroy you and Dr. Doppler. Despite all of his threats, he is (unfortunately or not) exactly like every other boss that you've faced in the game. Stay to his right, and push him into the upper left corner to defeat him. Upon destruction, you will obtain the eighth and final treasure of Dr. Doppler. Use the Tulip to warp yourself back to your home in the light world.



Seeling Dr. Doppler
From your home in the Light world (A), make your way to Dr. Doppler's cave (1). At this point in the game, the monster are so pitifully weak that you'll hardly notice them. Make your way to the chamber where Dr. Doppler once waited, and you'll find another person who claims that the doctor has been kidnapped. He will give you an Ice Orb to use. It is said that using this orb will actually cause the very oceans to freeze. Sure enough, no matter when you choose to use it, activating the Ice Orb will do just that: freeze the sea.

With the sea frozen, you will be able to walk across is as easily as land. There is a small side-effect to this power. Many other solid objects suddenly allow you to walk through them. You can sometimes take a shortcut through sections of the map that were previously off limits. With the sea frozen, your goal is to once again access the castle on the isolated island which, in the Light world, is located in the southern east corner of the map. Simply walk across the ice to reach it.

(11) Light island castle
Naturally, this castle will be the mirror image of the castle you just explored (which itself was the mirror image of this castle). In the room that you arrive, you'll find a chest containing a key. You could follow the same path as you did in the previous castle, but going down will only net you a puppet and a 3rd Eye. Instead, you may wish to travel to the right instead, and go all the way over to the right side, taking the top path first so that you can collect the Tulip in the chest found behind a locked door. Then return to the previous room, and follow the lower path to the right, before going down one screen, and coming back to the left.

The chest in the center room is empty, so you should not waste a key to discover that. Simply head up to the room above to examine the chest that is only accessible from this direction. Inside, you will find Lucia's Shield, the best shield in the game. Coupled with Lucia's sword, you should not be at your most powerful.

Come back down, return to the room on the right, and follow the path all the way down to the stairs which lead to the final boss lair of the game. Heal yourself and Quick Save the game before climbing the stairs.

To your surprise, the boss will be Gengar. He has returned to extract his revenge for defeating him in the demon world. Nevertheless, the fight will proceed exactly the same as it did in the demon world. Upon defeating him, it will turn out that Dr. Doppler was not kidnapped after all. He was Gengar, transformed by the evil within him, which you helped to defeat. Back to his regular self, he gladly mixes up the medicine that you require to save your mom. All you must do is use the Tulip to return home, and speak with your mom to save her. Congratulations.