Good info to know that the game doesn't really tell you: If you fully upgrade yellow shards, their bonuses become permanent! You no longer need to have them equipped to get their benefits. If you do equip them though, they apply the bonus twice.
Also again, Vinny didn't pay attention to what Dracula librarian told him. He gained the ability to lend out more books, and they are very good.
I can see why people thought that song during the last minigame sounded a whole lot like Kirby, but I rather thought that it sounded more like the Ponce De Leon boss fight of Rogue Legacy.
Y'all paying so close attention to the guide that you aren't paying attention to the game. You managed to get lost like a dozen times in the same fairly short stretch of maps. It's a forest, don't look too closely at each individual tree.
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