Posted March 07, 2016
Waltorious: For Xeen, the sense I get is that it's pretty easy to simply "win" it without worrying about one's party too much, but many players still find enjoyment in playing for a completely maxed-out party, or in setting optional challenges to tackle that are much harder than the game itself (e.g. clearing out the Dragon Tower early). But I've only played Xeen once, when I was much younger, so I'll have a better sense of that when I play it again (I need to play MM3 for the first time ever first, now that I've finally played MM1 and MM2).
Actually, I think it is easier to do Dragon Tower early than it is to do the Labyrinth of Lost Souls without first doing Dragon Tower. Also, early Dragon Tower is more fun because offensive spells are actually quite useful there, where as the LoLS (what a curious acronym here!) has magic resistant enemies that are rather hard to hit at reasonable levels, which is not fun. (Also, the LoLS drags on, whereas the Dragon Tower quest involves dangerous overworld enemies and *two* separate dungeons, one with its own cloud area.) After Dragon Tower, you likely have a high level party (level 50, even more if you use permanent level boosts after reaching level 50), and you have access to the fountain that adds +50 temporary levels. As you can see, that makes physical attacks *far* more effective and trivializes the dungeon.
(Of note: While writing this post, at one point it said "reasonable enemies" instead of "reasonable levels".)