How about try to save your game data first so in case you fail with taking the risk of the adventure route, you can start again, right? But if your game card data is full, I think you might as well take the chance--and "spread your wings" but first remember to cultivate some wings with feather hormone injections (im pretty sure they sell those right?). But if your feathers fail you, I guess you can always start the game over.
But in real life, there are no do overs, no back-up memory card. We are perpetually going in one direction: forward. So really, which one to pick? Which dirt or pebbled path will get pretty princess safely to the ball (with not one strand of hair out of place) and which one will lead the prince to the princess, who is at the ball, by the way.