1st January 2017, 10:38 PM
I might go into a more detailed rebuttal later, but for now let me summerize: I think you rushed through the game just to "get it over with" and that's tainted your view of the game. I can't imagine how you'd find your list of "missable" items annoying unless you were in such a hurry that you didn't bother making notes of things like the book of Mudura and so on early on. For my part, that book taunted me for a while and I dashed straight back to town the instant I got those boots. I just can't help but disagree with a huge amount of that.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)