"So what if it sold horribly? It was a darn good game, so we're making sequels!!"

[Great Rumbler]

On a similar note, the stealth gameplay. Yes, I know that this cannot be Theif. But I think that having the guards just do one blast of that gun and then turning around and leaving is such bad design... no human would do that! I wish it was more like a real stealth game... if you get seen alarms go off and it gets harder to progress, you can be followed by badguys, make the levels a bit less linear (as it is it's really 'rooms that are puzzles', not stealth -- the stealth areas are just types of puzzle rooms, not true stealth gameplay, I'd say.

If they did that I'd never be able to beat it!! I get caught all the time, though I think that might be because I don't really try that hard to be stealth, but still...

Simplistic combat -- it's not awful, but it is quite easy and there is a lot of it for that level of simplicity. But it's entertaining so this is not a big problem. The dungeons are fun most of the time. But I wish that the combat was both more complex and more challenging. Either, or preferably both. There have been just a couple of times when it's actually been a challenge and those have been some of the more fun parts of the game... I wish more enemies were tough. Sadly few seem to be. It's definitely a missed opportunity. Like with all of these.

The battle system isn't supposed to be complex because you're supposed to use stealth to get from place to place.