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• Demonic Spiders: Venom Dragons. If you encounter them, RUN!
• Ear Worm: Almost the entire damn soundtrack.
• Scrappy Mechanic: Whoever designed the menu interfaces was probably on several illegal substances. Some of the more frustrating 'highlights' include:
  • Any weapons and armour you purchase in town cannot actually be equipped while in the shop. You have to head over into the Spire proper, or go into the Guild and choose the "Status" option, before you can change your equipment.
  • You cannot actually check the stats of the weapons you purchase, thus leading players to rely on the 'it costs more, so it must be better' approach. And even that doesn't work very well, because there are several expensive weapons that are worthless and cheap ones that are overpowered. The $100 Estoc does much more damage than any other weapon available in the store's initial selection, including the $3000 Katana.
    • For that matter, the up/down arrows on the purchase screen do not actually delineate whether the stat values go up or down, but whether or not the character's class allows for equipping that weapon without penalties. Nowhere in the game or manual is this mentioned.
  • While in the item menu, pressing 'Y' destroys an item immediately, with no confirmation message. Might not be so bad, except the equipment you're currently wearing is also listed in the item screen. So it's entirely possible to destroy aforementioned brand-new battleaxe as you're trying to figure out if there's some way to check the stats on the thing.
  • The game expects you to choose the item being used and the target character simultaneously (via the up/down and L/R buttons respectively). If you press 'A' on an item it will be used immediately on the currently highlighted character, which will 90% of the time be the lead because most every other game asks you to select the item first and THEN select the target character.
  • Inconsistent menu interfaces. The game allows you to cycle through the characters on your team with the L/R shoulder buttons... except when it doesn't. Why? Who knows.
    • All in the name of properly emulating the frustratingly obscure and clunky interface of any good ol' dungeon crawling RPG and the nonsense rules of AD&D First Edition!
  • Want to get a High/Dark Elf? Alternate between going to the tower and praying at the respective alignment's church for half an hour! Unless you're willing to get it "fairly", in which case have fun benching a party member that you've put hours into so you can have a slot for your new party member!