>beat nightmare of druaga, azure dreams, and baroque in recent years
>decide to give ye olde torneko a go again after having dropped it pretty angrily like 6 years ago
>determined to beat it this time now that I have a lot more mystery dungeon experience beyond pokemon
>turns out torneko really is just a special kind of bullshit and you will be put in unwinnable situations often
>enemies quickly become much stronger than you unless you take a lot of time to grind on each floor, however this means you will need a lot of bread, which you won't always have enough of cause you're limited in how much you can bring into a dungeon
>undead have like a 75% chance to drop a tombstone which will resurrect them with full HP if another monster is adjacent
>zombies can freely vomit on your shield, making it less and less effective
>skeletons can freely disarm your shield, potentially deleting it if it lands on an invalid space
>carrots can freely make you dance, leaving you with nothing to do but run for 10 turns
>mages can freely to put you to sleep, leaving you with nothing to do but get your ass beat for 5 turns, aka instant death
>druids can freely warp you and put you to sleep on the space you land on
Fucking hell man, I really forgot just how bad it was. Even trying to grind to have the right equipment to handle all this bullshit can just blow up in your face cause the game decided to say fuck you. This one really is just miserable more often than it is fun, but I'm still going to finish it this time so I never have to play it again.