The problem isn't that Lord Dredmor's too hard. The problem is that everything up to him is laughably easy in comparison. There's no difficulty curve whatesoever.
For 90% of the game you're tested by no other human metrics than luck and patience, and I don't find that fun.
The only things about it I liked were the "you n'wah" quotes and this, which is now my icon for everything.
