Evergrace

Darius has a similar place at the beginning. Walk past the archway (next to the first savepoint and kill the dragonfly mutant. It drops a blue fruit and you can reset it by doing the shop trick. The dragonfly comes to you sometimes if you just stand at the entrance. A good way to start the game fully pumped/equipped.

Unlimited Stat Pumping:
To do this with Sharline, you have to find a plant critter that appears near the first crystal she sees. Kill this critter and it not only drops a Blue Fruit every time but also some money. The Blue Fruit allows you to spread five points among your stats. Walk through the crystal to the shop. This will reset the screen with the critter in it. Now when you return the same critter will be there, and killing him again will get you a fruit.

Darius is a little harder to do this with. He has at least one similar spot (that I have found), but requires more work to get pull off. In the upper shrine, in the far east corridor there is a Rock Golem. Killing him seems to drop a Red Fruit (twice as good as the Blue) each time he's killed. You still have to reset the screen with a visit to the shop, which this time is far away, but it can be done. The limit to stat increases from fruit is 200 for each. Darius' early Blue Fruit creature is the Paraday near the fountain.