this whole series is like the guy who wears a star trek costume to the renaissance faire (as opposed to wizardry, which is like the guy who wears a wizard hat to a linux convention). personally i find that kind of charming.

that said, xeen is probably where m&m peaked for me, and it's still not as interesting as wizardry or etrian or old school roguelikes. probably because it's very easy. it might be a good entry point to dungeon crawlers, but who's getting a DOS game for that purpose today?