I just finished this dungeon and I have to say I love it.
I did get frustrated with its maze-like qualities, but it was my choice not to map, and the game certainly does not teleport the party around much, so I have no excuse for getting repeatedly lost beside my own lazyness. Total distance: 44.9km. Run, Forrest, run!
Once I understood the principle, actually, it is quite logical. In a replay, I doubt I would run around in circles quite as much. I love the new weapons and the various secrets, although from this standpoint I still have a way to go, I barely found half of them, and two I could not do (one-man team makes Dance! impossible to win without cheating, I have yet to check whether the particular brand of cheating I had in mind works (summoning extra players doesn't, well done!) The other secret, the lost hallway, I just don't get. I'll have to rack my brains.
I was disappointed by Chaos's wimpiness. I killed all of his instances in the game (4) that I could find, and actually keeping him alive long enough to kill him properly at the end was quite a challenge. Methinks it might be a backward compatibility problem with V0.42 of RTC (the one I played on.) Also, on our first encounter, he did not say anything, I thought he would have but he was mute, even if I did not kill him straight away.
Favorite weapon: The explodagger. So Bond-esque, too bad it's one use only.
Most-used new weapon: Tie between the Zo bomb (suicide pill for exploring pits and other nonsense) and the vorpal arrow (stabbity-stabbity
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Favorite secret so far: Tie between Dance! and the special screamers. The secrets are one of the strengths of this module. The puzzles are great too, but the secrets are really the icing on the cake. Maybe it's just because I'm such a sucker for Easter eggs.
I was not bothered by the respawn rates, but it's true I always walk around with all the stats maxed out by potions, so I kill fast and don't take much damage.
I only had to use the spoiler threads once, to find the last sapphire key in the Nightmare. Although I was well aware of how to open the way (I had explored the other side fully) it had simply not occured to me to just explore it. Once again I blame lazyness and no mapping.
I am left with a few loose ends after completing the game and the alternate Hellion ending. I will certainly replay it to find more secrets. On the other hand, I am a proud 'fashion casualty.' (boy what didn't I try for that puzzle! Never has an obvious puzzle been so hard!)
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