While taking a break on Grimrock, I've been collecting my thoughts on it, possibly for a review.

I have made it past level 6, have faced Trolls, giant enemy crabs, acidic slimes, flying not-wyverns, skeletal warriors, and more.

But past all of those, my most hated enemy? The goddamned giant spiders.

I have no issues with spiders, and in fact tolerate them far more then most people I know. In Grimrock, however, they move faster than any other enemy I've encountered, cause poison, which I feel is the worst status effect in the game, and squeal like tormented swine.

Anyone have similar/differing opinions on their most hated enemy in the game?

I dislike the 4 skeleton warrior dudes, they are a killer. Literally.

I've only encountered one ogre, but I hated him; why did he have to be so mean to me ;__;

Yeah. I nearly shit myself when I saw that ...4 skelly dude(s?). Took me a while to take them out and they took down like half my party twice. The spiders aren't too bad once you pick up a decent weapon. You can take em down in 2-3 rounds usually.

Yeah the 4 skeleton soldiers are giving the most trouble so far.

So maybe we should turn this into a help thread.

Circle Strafe the Skeleton Soldiers. Also, they seem to hate Electricity. Maybe from the metal armor?

There is an antidote recipe for the poison. Makes the spiders far less annoying.

Also having a mage makes large groups of mobs much easier since the spells affect all the mobs in a group.

Seen a lot of hate for the spiders, personally I disliked the poison cloud fungus guys (not the spitters) more. Also, you meet some other stuff further down (don't wanna spoil) that's a bitch to deal with if you're fighting several monsters.

I'd have to say either the slimes or the spiders, as for the 4 skeletons they are pretty easy cause they are slow and a good fireball can do massive damage to all 4 of them. So far the room full of spiders and the room full of slimes gave me the most trouble.

And then there is the small green scorpionísh looking things which are a pain cause both times i've run into them they came in groups of 15+, twice that ammount maybe in the fighters challenge room.

Fucking spiders. The fast movement or poison on their own aren't bad but combined they are a recipe for pure hatred.

I found the four undead soldiers easy. They are slow and easy to circle strafe and magic can damage all four. So far I have found the Herders that creates poison clouds the most annoying to fight, it's easy to get cornered when avoiding the clouds.

Those accursed spiders. Damn them.

ive only come across 2 sets of the four skeleton soldiers, and for both i dropped emm down a pit and then felldown after ontop of emm to insta kill emm, Spiders so far have been a huge pain.

I don't have too much trouble against any single titled enemy or group of enemy. Its when there are three or four enemies chasing me that things get tough.

Fucking Spiders!

Food, with Slimes coming in close second.

But seriously, I'm running out of eats.

The steam purchase button. For some reason it won't accept my Paypal purchase and I cannot play the game :(

@ccampb89 said:

The steam purchase button. For some reason it won't accept my Paypal purchase and I cannot play the game :(

Buy it off the developers website and you'll get a Steam key.

Spiders, GODAMN SPIDERS. Why do game developers feel the need to put giant spiders in EVERY RPG EVER? And then go to the effort of animating them in the most disturbing ways possible, AAAARRRGH EFF SPIDERS!

Spiders, and Skeleton Legionnaires are a welcomed sight after you have to face Ogres, and those god damn flying electrical things. I would take spiders over those guys any day of the week.

@Eujin: Dude, spiders are the FUCKING WORST in this game. I just got to the level where they're introduced, and it's terrible. I forgot that poison would be a thing in this game. And now I'm upset.

@GreggD said:

@Eujin: Dude, spiders are the FUCKING WORST in this game. I just got to the level where they're introduced, and it's terrible. I forgot that poison would be a thing in this game. And now I'm upset.

I just got to the crabs and man do they hit hard, I'd kill for some spiders right now.

spiders are pretty rough atm, they attack hard and inflict poison. Carelessness with spiders gets you killed quick!

Crabs because they do a lot of damage and they can move sideways.

Opened door

Spider : "Oh hai there"

Poisoned

Close door

Fuck spiders

I entered the one room with the 3 or 4 of them and just went "Aww fuck this". and shut that door down.

you can abuse some doors to get rid of a bunch of spiders. open them land about 2 hits/spells and close the door. rinse and repeat.

@Lake: You have no idea how happy it makes me that the crabs move sideways, however I'm sure there I will be murdered.

further in im rethinking my stance, cant decide it the fire elements or the ice lizards are worse... or the 7x7 room u port in the center of every single square around u has a little lizard around u

I'm only at level four but spiders were damn annoying with their poison. Luckily I could out-live the poison but damn does it take you out fast if you're not aware.

Snails....because I haven't gotten any further than them

kinda funny, been using the doors to midagate a lot of the packs, cheesing the encounter, theres enemy's later on that can use door :(

I'll tell you, that first ogre you face... Well for people who haven't gotten there yet. Have fun running for your life!

@phampire said:

you can abuse some doors to get rid of a bunch of spiders. open them land about 2 hits/spells and close the door. rinse and repeat.

I've used this trick so many times now. Works great on the crabs, and there is no way I could have beaten the first troll without it.

My new words of wisdom for everyone: Ice Magic.

Once you're strong enough in it, your spells will start freezing enemies for at least 1-2 rounds of attacks.

FUCK SPIDERS. GODDAMN IT.

If they sneak up behind you they clip through your view. THE SPIDER FORCES ITSELF INSIDE YOU. YOU WILL NEVER BE CLEAN.

The four skeleton dudes will fuck your shit up in a corridor, but man, FUCK THOSE SPIDERS.

Bastards get like 3 hits in before I can do one.

People complaining about Spiders must be only three floors down. I beg for spiders. I've seen things, man. Horrible things. Things that make a spider look like a puppy. I've seen fiery demons and horrible ogres and fucking goddamn giant enemy crabs with no weak point and electrical wyverns....and......dear god.........

I've encounter the fire elementals. Oh man... Slimes are a pain too because they always seem to attack the spot you're moving into.

I hated the robed Cthulhu dudes... mostly because i didn't know you could take down their shields...when i hit something with everything i have and it all turns up as 0 hit points i assume that's the game telling me you can't kill that enemy and you have to find a new tactic...looked up how to kill them and the answer breaks down to "keep hitting them until it matters" That's kind of annoying.

Yeah the robed dudes are nasty no doubt. Luckily they don't have so much HP.

Savor those first 4 floors. Spiders seem bad until you run into everything else. Fuck those thunder wyverns.