The coastline west of Scuttle Town. A lot of platform jumping, few enemies.
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Lighthouse The Lighthouse is where Shantae lives, and where the game begins. A steep cliff prevents progress without the Monkey Form. (Technically the Lighthouse is it's own area.)
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Pits Pits and moving platforms as far as the eye can see.
More seaside stuff. A Golden Baby Warp Squid can be found in the water here, in a cave accessible through an upward-leading passage near the bottom left.
You'll find a lot of mermaids here, and some cliffs as well.
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A golden baby warp squid can be found in a cave at the bottom left hand corner of this lake. With Mermaid Bubble Shantae can access the game's final area - Sunken Cavern.
The desert southwest of Scuttle Town occupied by Ammo Baron. Each section of desert is connected to the others by a network of caves called Desert Passage. The Monkey Bullet and Elephant Stomp relics are found here. (This is presumably the same desert as in Shantae (GBC) - it's in roughly the same place relative to Scuttle Town.)
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A series of pits and caves leading to the Desert Passage. A boulder at the right entrance hides a cave with a Magic Jam that requires Mega Pike Ball or Spitfire to access. To the far left there is one final pit that can only be crossed with Monkey Bullet; on the other side is another Magic Jam.
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Ammo Baron Camp Aside from Ammo Baron's tent and an easy Magic Jam to the far left, there's a boulder that leads nowhere particularly interesting.
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At the top of the 'stairs' to the far left there is a cave where the Monkey Bullet can be obtained, with a bit of fire.
The Desert Passage is an underground extension of Baron Desert. Since the game's map feature doesn't track underground movement, you'll have to remember your way around here (not too difficult).
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Desert Passage contains a single interesting item - the Elephant Stomp - buried under a boulder in the cave area accessible from Baron Desert(7).
A scarecrow-infested field. (It's probably the same place as Scarecrow Field in the original game, judging from its location and the excess of scarecrows.)
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A Heart Holder can be found atop a pedestal here, but you'll need a monkey.
The forest isn't so tangled as to fully earn its name, but it is the biggest area and has the most stuff of any other area of the game.
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There is no 1A. The bottom left 'corner' of the forest is actually Lilac Fields' save point.
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The entrance to the Forest Cave is here. There's also a massive pit that can't be jumped over - you'll have to go 'around' it by jumping deeper into the background and moving past it. Rottytops' place is just to the east.
This odd area resembles Pumpkin Fields or Lilac Fields more than Tangled Forest. You can find the Coffee Machine to the far left, and there's a Magic Jam under a boulder here, but you're going to need Spitfire to get it.