Changes

After completing Stage 1, you want to take the lower route to the Mad Forest stage. You will get a couple screens of extra game play (Block 3-00) before reaching the owl screen. Owls in this game will lock on to your X and Y position and swoop towards the spot. Their spawns patterns vary from run to run, so you need to be prepared for any spawn pattern and make the right adjustments to continue. You can easily manipulate them to swoop out of the way by jumping at the right time. Be careful though, as Owls can drop hearts or subweapons if they take multiple hits from the holy water burning on the ground. Once you get past the owls, there is another screen where you will need to utilize damage boosts with the bone pillar's fireballs (2nd one is a 3-frame window or 1/20 of a second to hit). When you reach the door at the end of Block 3-02, there will be another branching pathway to deal with.