Min Hero: Tower of Sages, Hard Mode

Beating the Grand Sage in Min Hero: Tower of Sages will reward the player with a Titan minion:

Claimed the Titan minion!

It also unlocks Hard Mode, accessible from the floors menu.

Hard Mode Tower.

In Hard Mode, the player starts again from the bottom with more Stars to collect. Normal Mode is still available so it is possible to go back there for any Stars that may have been missed.

Remember the blank portal rings in Normal Mode? These portals are active in Hard Mode:

The portal works now.

This particular portal leads to a new room with a new opponent:

Expert Sage waits behind the portal.

Also, the Qui-tel Trainer, who used to be helpful with maps, now fights:

Qui-tel Trainer became the Hard Sage.

And the locked door now has additional locks:

Door with six locks.

Extra opponents on each floor mean more Stars to collect. These Stars will be helpful since the opponents now have high-level minions - overpowering them with high-level minions is no longer easy.

I have not reached the first Seal yet. I wonder if there are any additional bonuses from obtaining Seals in Hard Mode.

Update 22 August 2013:
Just barely beat the Grass Sage in Hard Mode. I did not get anything new other than a Star (out of three). I should have guessed that would happen since beating the earlier Minor Sages do not give me a piece of a Seal. Plus, my profile showed that I had all six Seals.

I forgot to mention before that beating the Hard Sage and the Expert Sage will each give the player a gem.