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