The very worst part of MUA?

[bufossil]

SPOILERS

When your team gets to Doom's Castle, the devs have removed all save points. It is impossible to save your progress for a very long time (you can't even save for a while after you get to Murder World).

Getting to the long hall with the spiked wall is not difficult, just time consuming. Even getting through the vertical chopping gates--which the devs have designed to hit some of your team members--is not bad if you have a healer on your team at the other end.

However, getting out alive at the end of the long hall is difficult. I just saved up all four extreme attacks until I got the final barrier removed, and then initiated it. It killed all mobs in the vicinity.

Unfortunately, the three characters I was not controlling did not follow me into the next room. They remained in the hallway. So I quickly controlled one of them and moved her into the next rooml, but the other two were killed when the spiked wall trapped them.

So, now, I have to go through all of that all over again. I am on my seventh run over the same long area. Why was this stretch designed so that progress could not be saved? The whole rest of the game is designed so you can save your progress, but in this one area the player gets the middle finger from the devs. The game, and the characters, exhibit totally unique behavior through this section to get you killed. This is not fun, this is anti-fun.

[Beatmasterfresh]

Ha ha the save system isn't great in the game. My main frustration is that your AI Allies will run headlong into traps and die without any warning. Still love this game though, when it goes on sale I may get it on PC

[KL36720]

At least the SHIELD portal is accessible in main Doom’s Castle areas (not the one in Murderworld). In Murderworld, we have to save Jean first to get the blue Save Point active, just like when we beat all Doom bosses & get Doom’s armors

[bufossil]

Yes, good points one and all. I also still love the game. I played it on the Xbox 360 a few years ago, forgot a lot since then, but remembered I love the game. Doesn't mean I like the long distances between save points though.

[Lariria]

I feel it's how some of the damn special missions for the characters are poorly balanced.

Blade got so, so screwed.