I'm not a fan of the Thing-Thing series, so I haven't played it for a while, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that most of the things I didn't like have been fixed since my last experience. :) Not bad at all.
Great Game, I haven't played a good dungeon crawl for years. Only thing that got to me is that I seemed to be spending more time sifting through my horde of magical items than actually crawling and slaying. :P Other than that, it gets the thumbs up! :)
I dunno what it is about this game that makes it so great, probably the seamless graphics and quirky humour... :P A bit tough without some sort of checkpointy thing though. :)