Might and Magic II - a warning

                 sent in by Ron Rainbird

@~This was part of a letter I received from Ron recently. We had
@~both been playing M&M2 and his characters were a lot more
@~advanced than mine so he was well ahead of me in the game. The
@~information he gave me in the letter might be worth reading if
@~you are also playing the game.

I've finally put Might and Magic II away with no hope of a
reprieve for it. I got to the final dungeon - Square Lake Cavern
which cannot be entered until you have done things with Time
Travel, Discs and talons. Getting the items was most enjoyable if
a bit hair-tearing, but upon entering the aforesaid Cavern I could
have bounced the machine in frustration. I'll try to do a
reasonably short explanation.

The location consists of roughly 16 upward sloping corridors,
running parallel to each other. At the end of each corridor you
meet a horde of monsters - and I mean a HORDE - never less than
250 in number. The first group waited until I had reduced it to 60
or thereabouts when it called up reinforcements of another 100.
This rather depressed me. Anyway I forced myself to continue for
another 3 (I think) corridors, stopping for ages at the end of
each to fight ridiculous numbers of creatures, when I found that
just to do these encounters had taken me more than 2 hours with no
way of saving without going back to an Inn and starting again.

Purely by chance (this was several weeks ago) I met an RPG
enthusiast in Northwich who had completed this game and he told me
that he had sat up half a night to complete this Cavern and that
nothing would ever induce him to either repeat the performance or
play a game that included a similar situation. So there you have
it. If you are carrying on with M&M2 I wish you good luck.

@~... and so do I. I have also put my disks away for the time
@~being. Why do they have to make some end-games so infuriating to
@~complete and thus spoil the enjoyment of the whole game?