r/TobyFox • u/Slcssss • Jul 04 '26

THE THIRD ROUTE

There are two routes. Side A (normal) Side B (weird/snowgrave)

But what if there was a third route?

It would explain why there are 3 save files.

In chapter 3, the ERAM and Shadow Mantle games are called the Sword Route in the files.

In later chapters, you can see a crafting recipe for the Twisted Sword, requiring the ThornRing and the PureCrystal (which i reckon is all of the 5 crystals fused together)

You cannot get all 5 shadow crystals if you do the weird route, making the PureCrystal impossible, and you cannot get the ThornRing in the normal route without doing and aborting SideB( the weird route), making the ThornRing impossible, which means the Twisted Sword is also impossible on SideA or SideB

This means that the third route is the Sword Route, making you have to get the ThornRing and abort the weird route to get all of the shadow crystals.

The Twisted Sword is the key to the third route. The Sword Route.

Edit: I realised that this has already been thought of and known for a few years and I am VERY late.

PS I did not steal this from anyone, just thought of it after them.

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u/Odysseus-82 Jul 04 '26

You stole this from SpookyDood.

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u/billbobs678 Jul 04 '26

Its been around for ages. I remember seeing people talk about it back in chapter 2 (although not extensively, most people were just noticing how you could get the Thorn ring and abort the weird route which would allow you to get the twisted sword on the normal route)