This is one thing I like about the SNES version. You have to dart around the screen to right-click on the weapons and make the attacks The attack buttons aren't all conveniently lined up in a row. It is a frontier long since crossed and to a modern eye looks a lot like a chintzy Pioneer tourist trap in Pennsylvania. That you could perform these actions that were utterly useless to you the PC, but that would be appreciated by denizens of the world you temporarily inhabited, is lost on today's gamers.
This greatly added to the verisimilitude of the game, a novel idea not often appreciated after the fact. They'll be useful to the people in the story but not you the adventurer," they said. These days it seems good to criticize a company for including useless items in the game ("if they're useless, then why even put them in!?!?!") as opposed to the original viewpoint of "our worlds are so vast we can have the luxury of including utterly useless items. These days, sure, people who crossed over are by default the ones left talking about it. There simply wasn't that much of an overlap. The average computer game player of the time didn't play both. In Savage Empire you didn't, because of Origin's filigree work ("We Create Worlds"). In this game you definitely grab anything that isn't nailed down. Ha! Amazing how perspectives can shift in time.
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