Yeah the little spider was going to be more of a feature but had to be cut for time, as for the maze I designed it to loop on itself, unfortunatly the save and load feature broke so It must've been really frustrating, I apologise for that.
I was also going to make it alot harder to die there and instead have the game promt the player where to go. Poor time management really hurt that section of the game sorry again.
If you ever try to get through it again grab the torch at the info booth and then go left down the dark halls.
the initial left-right paths take you to the same place so don't worry about that choice.