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[A Black Falcon]

...KQ7's desert? You had trouble with a desert that you were never required to actually wander aimlessly through? Technically all you needed to do was stick with the area with actual stuff in it until you made some fresh water for the ghost who would be on whatever screen you decided to wander to, and he'd guide you where you needed to go himself. Getting back was as simple as "go north".

Yeah, you just had to go up three screens. But if you don't know that, it's not obvious... it's certainly no comparison in annoyance to the KQ5 stuff, of course, though. There were worse, more annoying, puzzles in KQ7 than that. I don't remember specifics really, but I remember a lot of confusing stuff I'd have had a very hard time figuring out without a guide... and a few too many annoying random deaths.