Battle!

Well I got through the mirror maze and then had to fight the guardian of the card (a giant mask/moth) only to have the villain (who was standing there the whole time to just walk u and grab it.

Another frustrating thin about this game is how incredibly stupid the characters are. It's like they can't move and speak at the same time, so when anything happens they just stand still and say out loud what is clearly going on. Several times they are faced with the bad guys and a monster shows up, then the bad guys just walk off with out being stopped. There are six of the good guys and only 3 can fight the monster at a time, why can't the other 3 just fight the bad guys!? Or in this case they chase the bad guy into the chamber with the card and the guardian shows up, during the whole fight the bad guy is just standing off to the side wiating for the good guys to win, and presumably half the good guys are sanding around too. Then once the battle is over they just stands there as he walks over to the card says "I'll take this" and grab it, no one thinks "Hey, our nemisis is feet away from the card we just risked our lives for, better grab it quick" or even "Hey, he's going for the card, stop him!". They just stand there as he teleports away and then say in flat stilted dialogue "oh no, he's getting away with the card."

The battle system is also getting more frustrating. To stand a chance I load the deck with about half attack cards, half defense cards, and some healing items, since the cards are dealt at random I then have better luck having both types when needed. Unfortunately what normally happens is that the monster targets one character the whole fight, so not only do they use up whatever def cards they may have but the two other characters soon get full hands of def cards they can't use and no room for attack cards when their turn comes. So I would go 6 turns in a row of having to waste 2/3 of my turns discarding useless defense cards while one character is being slowly killed due to a lack of defense cards! At least the fights last for 30 or so rounds, so eventually I get back to a point where the other characters have attack hands, but by then the monster switches targets to the defenseless members...