Wow! sounds like a bunch of people have beaten the game on HOF mode. I don't know about you, but I like my game kept on normal mode.
For some reason I just am not very motivated to finish the game. I started off real well and then I kinda got bogged down in the maze forest and ever since then the game has just kinda gone downhill. Its getting better though, i'm in dragons eye and there are some HARD enemies down there. Like an iron golemn which I can't kill and all sorts of traps... i'm going on and on aren't I? I have to say, they really put some cool weapons in the game though. Its almost worth playing it just for the weapons.
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