Been playing The Elder Scrolls: Arena, here's my thoughts so far. I am on Linux and have to use Boxtron (Proton for DOSBox) to run the game properly, so I may experience things differently to someone on Windows.
The game is buggy, ended up stuck inside map a few times, found enemy sprites glitched into walls and had a few audio issues. It can also be tedious and annoying, the dungeons are large like Daggerfall's but there's no mark/recall spell and sometimes you'll encounter enemies like Ice Wolves that laser you to death with ice shards, there's no pain sound when you get damaged and there's some triggers in dungeons that will spawn enemies right next to you. It's easier after buying more spells and saving after each encounter, shield, levitation and destroy wall spells are incredibly useful. In character creation, you have to choose from a list of pre-made classes and only some of them have access to magic and only some can equip heavy armour. You level up by getting XP from killing enemies and invest stat points. Towns are quite similar to Daggerfall's, though you will get attacked by enemies if you wander at night. You can only sell things one at a time and haggling is manual. I quite like the horn that plays whenever you enter or exit into a town and I like the music that plays when you swim in the overworld.
If you decide to play, I recommend reading a beginner's guide since the game doesn't explain anything.
Also I'm really into Asian women right now???
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