A rather anticlimactic ending, but hey, after beating up thousnds of those bat-dog things in the Witch Finger cave in order to go up a level and get enough hit points to survive the Guardian, I actually beat the Guardian!
Strange, though, and I'm wondering if this is a quirk ... I was fighting that beastie, had hardly made a dent in in, then switched to the techno plug-in to pitch a tent and recover HP. Well, when I went back to the main game, there was the big hole in the middle of the floor, and the Guardian wasn't touching me, so I jumped down the hole, and I won! My saved game file is right before going into the Guardian, so I'll try that same thing again...
Great game, keep the plug-ins coming!
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