Just finding this odd item is an exercise in hoop jumping. Instead, if you collect it and then type the word “umbrella” it will instantly kill any bats in the room. Perhaps weirdest of all is the dagger, which can’t directly be used as a weapon at all.

Most infuriating is that the final boss, whose dungeon is located in a random room of the castle, cannot be beaten unless you’ve found the cross, which is hidden in a secret room beyond an inconspicuous wall you have to break with your sword while leaping in mid-air and hitting it multiple times and also trying to land back on the platform above a bottomless pit.

Aphrodite can’t, not unless she collects some bread and water. There’s the weird way only Popolon can walk through revolving doors.

But we don’t have time for that, so here’s just a few memorable examples… There are the invisible walls in World 5 that can’t be seen unless you’ve found the candle, or the Bible that allows you to freeze enemies with a press of the CTRL key, but only up to 15 times. You could write a book on all the crazy, weird, counter-intuitive, bizarrely brilliant game mechanics in The Maze Of Galious, and it would probably be written backwards and in multiple dead languages too.

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