You don't have to kill every monster in the Ice Palace

Everyone knows that you don't have to kill the blue bird in the first stage of the original game. But not as many people know that you can spare quite a lot of monsters in the second stage.

By the time you reach the White Hood, you're already at MAX LV. You don't need more EXP:

These monsters can be walked past:

These monsters can be walked past:

You only need one block of ice here:

This last one is particularly egregious, because the game literally teaches you that you need one less block of ice than you have pressure plates. Twice.


absolyr nice guy

That’s because once you use Snowgrave on berdly, you don’t need to kill any more of the darkners in spamton’s mansion

Yet another parallel

Bluebird = Berdly

So sparing Berdly = Weird Route?

No, you freeze berdly in the ice palace

???

If the ice palace leads to the bunker wouldn't it have to be in a different chapter than 2?

No, the ice palace leads to getting the shelter key, not the shelter itself

That’s where board three leads to

In the cold area of the Desert Board there's a bird that flies from tree to tree. You don't have to kill that bird.

and that's parralleled by NEO?

I don’t think spamton Neo has a parallel; he was an unexpected part of the route, something that technically wasn’t supposed to happen

the entire route