* BreatherBoss: The hellhound at the end of stage four, scary as it may be, is definitely the easiest boss in the game.
* GoddamnedBats: Basically every flying enemy is one!
* GoodBadBugs: [[http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthread.php?242448-Magician-Lord-A-secret-is-revealed-%28after-23-years%29 A multi-jump exploit]] allows you to bypass significant portions of the game.
* NightmareFuel: The entire "Highway Leading to a Foreign Space" and the Hellhound boss stand out as the most disturbing parts of the game.
* NintendoHard: Ridiculously so. The home/AES version made the game even harder by respawning you at designated checkpoints, rather than the place where you died like the arcade/MVS version.