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>You can't even leave the first room unless you do some really obscure stupid shit that you would never think to do.
It's a 2x2 room, and one of the four tiles is the summoning circle. You can summon monsters, and only two of the first batch are spell-casters, LVL 1 Priests and LVL 1 Mages. Unless you went full-retard with a melee-only party, there's good odds you summoned both the priests and the mages, or at least you grabbed the priests so you could get healing for your party. After 1-3 battles, odds are one of those priests is going to cast the light spell you need.
Wizardry 4 doesn't actually become a fucked up nightmare until you reach the floor just prior to the Cosmic Cube. Everything prior to that is just dealing with the RNG while you map out the floor and figure out what you need to do. Then the floor prior to the Cosmic Cube is designed to stick you in an unwinnable state, and the Cosmic Cube has sections that can only be beaten by pure luck. The most evil of all is before you reach the exit of the Cube.
The game puts you in a room full of spinners, and you need to reach a specific spot in the room, which is surrounded by teleporters that will either throw you backwards in the Cube, or into a section of the Cube with no actual exit. The spot you need is in the center of the room, where you can't see the walls to orient yourself. So you have absolutely NO idea which direction you are facing, or where you are standing in the room. You literally have a 1/4 chance of making the correct move, and you have to do about 6-8 of these 1/4 chance moves correctly IN A ROW in order to move forwards. The PS1 version lets you see the floor and shows your view spinning, so you can actually tell what direction you are facing if you pay attention. The original computer version does neither, making it pure RNG.

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