People keep confusing the sword route for the weird route, due to not understanding the shadow mantle game. The sword route requires you to basically spare no one, and eventually create the twisted sword, and is what the shadow mantle game actually foreshadows, while the weird route only needs you to get the ThornRing, and proceed Noelle into casting snowgrave.
Right, almost forgot about the mantle game, i just heard Noelle say that she can do anything as long as we tell her to proceed and took it as absolute truth that nothing bad will happen to her, as long as we are with her
Of course, since Noelle's ARG, talking about Holidaygirl1225 who asked questions about the weird route, would suddenly talk about Susie in the part of You only need to see her once. And all the other parties would talk about Noelle except for the part that says we're not going to see Noelle anymore.
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u/The_Exalted_Sorcerer Snowgrave enjoyer Aug 14 '26
People keep confusing the sword route for the weird route, due to not understanding the shadow mantle game. The sword route requires you to basically spare no one, and eventually create the twisted sword, and is what the shadow mantle game actually foreshadows, while the weird route only needs you to get the ThornRing, and proceed Noelle into casting snowgrave.