I've been thinkin this for a long time, all the way back to the 80's with " WonderBoy In Monster Land" for the SMS, such a good game, but wonderboy basically walks into monster land and just starts slaughtering the shit outa any monster he finds. They arent even atacking him, they are defending themselves. There's no implied connection between any of the bosses or the monsters along the way, and every boss is behind a door so he's just busting in and saying "Gimme the key and all your gold", so in the end it's " you just walk into the land and kill everybody". Great game tho but my pre-teen mind had a problem with the plot.
