History YMMV / TaskMaker

* UnintentionallyUnwinnable: The game can become this if you bestow a task item to an NPC and then kill them -- quite often, it won't be on their person when they die. However, 1.) bestowing is optional in the first place, 2.) there are plenty of far better objects that can be bestowed, and 3.) using "restart place" will make the task item respawn in its original place.

* UnwinnableByInsanity: The game can become this if you bestow a task item to an NPC and then kill them -- quite often, it won't be on their person when they die. However, 1.) bestowing is optional in the first place, 2.) there are plenty of far better objects that can be bestowed, and 3.) using "restart place" will make the task item respawn in its original place.

* BreatherLevel: Once you navigate Fierce Fold, Dripstone (the 7th task) is quite easy due to its small size.

* ThatOneLevel: Poet's Nightmare and Vidair's Tower. Poet's Nightmare involves a ''lot'' of going around in circles, while Vidair's Tower involves going through the right pattern of teleports and doors (broken if you're lucky with a Teleport scroll).

* UnwinnableByInsanity: The game can become this if you bestow a task item to an NPC and then kill them -- quite often, it won't be on their person when they die. However, 1.) bestowing is optional in the first place, and 2.) there are plenty of far better objects that can be bestowed.

** Ethereal potions can also be a game breaker in both versions, as they allow the player to pass through most walls and skip straight to the goal. The programmers acknowledged the ethereal potion cheat in Poet's Nightmare, by adding a staircase hidden behind a wall that leads straight to the goal.

* GoddamnedBats: Mostly inverted in the original; in most dungeons, monsters are very few and far between.

* GoddamnedBats: Mostly inverted in the original; in most dungeons, monsters are very few and far between. Far more present in ''Tomb'', especially in the final battle, which is swarming with evil guards which can spawn at any time.

* GameBreaker: Using the "restart place" spell, you can reset a dungeon repeatedly to get multiple copies of rare items (such as the Poison Potion, Potion o' Plenty, or Z's Power Up, which greatly increase all stats). Enough "restart place"s around one of the power-up potions can easily cap your status bars. ''Tomb'' asks "are you sure?" before you use a restart-place spell.
** Ethereal potions can also be a game breaker in both versions, as they allow the player to pass through most walls and skip straight to the goal; the same goes for Falling Wall scrolls in ''Tomb''. The programmers acknowledged the ethereal potion cheat in Poet's Nightmare from the first game, by adding a staircase hidden behind a wall that leads straight to the goal.

** ''Tomb'' also has a super-easy way to level-grind: use a task object, and the screen instantly fills with the monsters corresponding to each village/dungeon/town/etc. Lather, rinse, repeat.

* ThatOneLevel: Poet's Nightmare and Vidair's Tower in the first, Butterscotch in the second. Poet's Nightmare involves a ''lot'' of going around in circles, while Vidair's Tower involves going through the right pattern of teleports and doors (broken if you're lucky with a Teleport scroll). Butterscotch is just ''loaded'' with super-powerful enemies, most of which you have to beat to get the item.

* BreatherLevel: Except for navigating the force field maze in Fierce Fold, Dripstone (the 7th task) is extremely easy.

* RunningTheAsylum: Two of the previously-DummiedOut dungeons in ''Tomb'' were built by fans.

** Ethereal potions can also be a game breaker, as they allow the player to pass through most walls and skip straight to the goal; the same goes for Falling Wall scrolls in ''Tomb''. The programmers acknowledged the ethereal potion cheat in Poet's Nightmare from the first game, by adding a staircase hidden behind an exit.