Having the greaves, gloves, and helmet off during the dogs+fire bomb segment would have meant he'd have died instead of escaping with a sliver of life. Fast roll only matters if you manage to roll in time. Should keep the armor on.
Dark Alliance, Champions of Norrath, these games all had the booble jiggle characters. I guess it was a mandatory feature of the engine, there's surely no other explanation.
@dijidiji: As someone who played 300 hours of Stellaris and then found the UI changes they made to be incomprehensible, I have to disagree. I can't play one of my favorite games anymore because they've changed everything about it. It's a Ship of Theseus at this point.
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