vinylrake wrote:The first few hours I played I figured I'd just hang out in the hallway and wait to go to the portal room till everything was dead. doh!
Heh, I'm glad I'm not the only one. I looked at the clock not having read the "spoiler" hints and realized I'd been in the first hallway for a good 45 minutes... I was beginning to doubt the "30 to 60 minute" claim on the map length. That or the much more reasonable possibility that I'm one of those "more than three standard deviations below the mean" quality players.
It was much swifter the second time around *snicker*, although the second hallway still is a problem I have yet to surmount.
I can do the second hallway. I don't think the third is possible without co-op help, even on timid. In co-op play, I had torch run past the thrall and close all the gates while the other five dwarves basically just fought to stay alive in the mean time. We had to constantly retreat.