The inferno was scary until I realized that my party is really op for it by that point, just ended up being a source of like 20k xp to reach level 17. The abyss was scary and stayed that way all the way through.
Earth and air weren't that interesting, though the ending to the deeps was satisfying.
The final boss was great and made sense plot-wise.
I liked the plot in general, you go to great lengths to make all the Grimrock assets fit your own world-building, and I like might & magic style sci-fi elements in fantasy in general.
I was expected one more big actual fight somewhere in the proper ending though. As it stands, the survival test is really the big final fight of the mod and, though it actually is long, difficult and involved enough to be a great final fight, it isn't really signposted as such at all, which made me be a lot stingier with my consumables in it than I should have been.
I guess the ratlington bonus treasure would be needed to get the virge secret properly then? That secret is really neat (though I don't have it in my save
), but the reward seems extraordinarily useless, the deeps roots are like the only thing you could even theoretically use it on and they really weren't dangerous at all.
I also ended up with 16 unused enchantment scrolls and 24,4,5 BGR gems, but was also running out of pretty much all herbs, so actually using all the enchantment scrolls would have been difficult. (Also spent like 20 rocks on the casino and ended up running out of rocks for enchantment
.) The herb balance in general is much better than the base game with your increased alchemy costs, but makes alchemists an even better class than they already were.
Foodwise I pretty much exactly ran out of all my cooked food and spices, ending up with a giant pile of uncooked meat with no way to cook it. Had 2 iron guts for most of the game so I could have optimized that a lot more if I'd fed them a lot more raw food. Also fed almost all the eggs I found to my lizard, limiting my ability to cook the fancier recipes (and efficiently making use of both cake healing and nutrition is really difficult anyway).
