Originally posted by: Encryptic
Pretty much the entire game (well... I got to the city portion about 2/3s of the way through the game and gave up after that).
- The #&($@&#@* spider in the hive caves (where you find the little girl's bones). That thing was ridiculously difficult to kill and that wasn't even that far into the game.
- The constant uncontrollable shape-changing (until you get the charm from Dawn). Can you say "annoying as hell"?
- The Ruloi in the Citadel. The most fscking frustrating fights ever. Chasing those little bastards around just to get close enough to hit one, much less avoid getting zapped by their magic that you can't really dodge or avoid just about did it for me.
- The constant flood of spiders in the temple that prevents you from doing ANYTHING without being swarmed by them.
- The bug at the beginning of the temple that forced me to restart the entire game. (At the very beginning of the temple area, there's an altar with two bowls you have to fill in order to solve a puzzle. Clicking on one of the bowls triggered a bug that made an aloe leaf appear there and you couldn't get rid of it nor put your own aloe leaf in, preventing you from progressing further. Stupid me saved the game after I did this, not realizing it was a bug and only later found that out.)
Been playing the original Lands of Lore recently (thanks to the wonder of DosBox) and it reminded me how much the sequel sucked compared to the original.
Spoilers ahead!
1. There were only a three spiders IIRC. There was the multi-mouthed Executioner near the girl's corpse, there was another on one of the elevator floors, and there was a green one at the bottom of the pit.
2. The only times that it got on my nerves was when you were just about to get into a lizard cave and find some cool goodies, and then all of the sudden you turn into a human and get squashed. Otherwise, it never seemed to matter. The lizard is uber and the beast is great against fighting those two-headed tigers, and you get the Dampen charm in the Huline Jungle anyways.
3. Oh yes, those flying bastards. What really sucks is when they summon those instant-death pillars right on top of you. The way to kill them is with that golden halberd. It gives a lot of defence and does just enough damage to kill one in a single whack.
4. That part was pretty annoying as well. The trick is to kill the Wild Ones and get the green shard off of the shaman. Then you can get the other shard from that swimming pool and skip the spiders entirely.
5. Yeah, that bug is pretty bad, and the game does have quite a few areas that can potentially ruin your game. I always end up having to keep a couple dozen back up saves just in case.