the game boy rpg equivalent to telling the same joke four or five times over the course of a night to the same group of people every time and then pretending not to notice the looks on their faces getting more grim with each subsequent telling

not even my love for awful translations could save this game from being dropped when i found out i'd have to grind for like 5-6 levels (19-25 out of a max of 31) against the worst enemies in the game... and never die in the process lest i get sent back to the beginning of a triple-layered maze, all in order to have a chance to beat an rng-heavy two-phase final boss