I did a little testing recently and concluded that the Xeen Slayer Sword bypasses the resistance to physical damage of every creature in the game that I could find. This makes it ideal for taking down the creatures resistant (e.g., the Megadragon or Dragon Mummies) or immune to physical damage (e.g., the ghosts of Winterkill and the elementals on the planes of Air and Water). And, of course, you can get more with the "I Lost It" code at a mirror portal.
Also, you don’t have to kill the regular Lord Xeen in Castle Xeen to beat World of Xeen—you can kill one of the Lord Xeen’s in the Dungeon of Death instead and that will get you the Scepter if you don’t already have it (of course, if you aren’t using the I Lost It cheat you’d still have to build Newcastle to get a Xeen Slayer Sword to kill the Lord Xeens in the dungeon.
Normally you have to beat Lord Xeen in Castle Xeen in order to touch the 6th mirror to get the Clouds victory ("an invisible force protects the mirror" is the message you get if you try to touch it without defeating Lord Xeen via some sneaky teleport tricks). However, the force field is no longer there if you have the Scepter, which you can also get by beating one of the Lord Xeens in the Dungeon of Death. So if you've done this then you can teleport behind Lord Xeen in Castle Xeen, touch the mirror, and get the Clouds Victory. Even more amusingly, Castle Xeen doesn't disappear when you get the Clouds Victory so if you do that, you can go back to Castle Xeen after the ending sequence and Lord Xeen is still there!
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