you spend like 30 runs learning which items are even in this fucking thing and how to fight all the bullshit gimmick monsters that also hit way too hard. you keep dying for a while because monster houses keep spawning or you just appear in a giant room with monks who teleport hasted monsters onto you
then you get to the end and you find out one of the planets still wasn't aligned
lol, very next run i got literally everything in the world except a peach staff. a grass merchant was on the first floor and i gambled selling a few things to get fortune grasses for cave mamel leveling (which i was able to get the rocks for in time too), and bought one of each of the 400g grasses, which i knew were revive and invincible. then a few floors after all that an identify scroll revealed those and some other stuff, including a synth pot. and then by 10f i got a second one and fuuma equipment, 4 blank scrolls (one of them failed to banish knaves but i ended up banishing swordsmen a couple floors later anyway which i think was more important given where i was at) and the cashing pot to one-shot the boss. (the last blank scroll i wrote as windblade to identify them and so i knew i had an uncursed one.)
honestly there were a couple times i would just not play for a week because this was actually so frustrating, and especially once i started to really learn the tricks i got really annoyed by how easily a bad monster house, initial floor spawn, or behemoth floor could ruin a run, and then finding out the boss just has like an infinite supply of super strong ninjas on top of that was...horrifying. kind of hilarious after all that sweating to have what has to be about the easiest run ever; i lost a few items to a quite dangerous monster house around 11 or 12f, but i wasn't really that close to losing it all...