Mt. Brave, huh?
Eh, forget it.
It looks like the Pronesaurus is hurt here, but it's not. They attack by spinning around with their tails out. If you're on a platform above them (or are flying as a bird), they spin so fast that they propeller straight off the ground.
Anyway, before we leave...
...I green crystal into a bird.
The irony is not lost on me that, in the playthrough where I refuse to evolve into a bird, the bird-only level I'm cheating my way into is hovering over Mt. Brave when I enter it.
Anyway, green crystals don't wear off inside the Cloud Maze, probably because there are several areas inside where you'd be stuck and have to reset your game if you couldn't fly.
They do wear off in the River of Asteroid, though, because you exit here by falling off the bottom of the screen.
Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
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Whew. If you're going to do this trick in your own game, don't forget to snag the replacement green crystal from the rightmost asteroid before you head left.
Hey, free EP.
This is the Nautilon's Body, which is only available to quadruped dinosaurs.
It's magnificently tanky, but slower than Kotaku sucking molasses out of a frozen pipe.
Dinosaurs can evolve to walk on two legs for an agility boost, but this limits their skin type to the Armor body.
Evolving to two legs again puts their posture in that painfully-upright stance that nobody thinks dinosaurs ever actually used anymore.
Anyhow, I settle on a semi-upright stance and the Armor body.
Because, as it turns out, Tyrasaurus have really poor depth perception. Some manner of hitbox weirdness means the Tyrasaurs will try to bite and just plain
miss, even if you're standing still. I guess their vision really is based on movement!
WHAT Gaia sheesh can't you see I'm in the middle of something here this better be importa-- oh. Right.
Off we go then.