It is a good tournament game to see if players know the ruleset and are able to play the game.
Also it shows the skills of a player, if lightning flippers are installed.
The rest is just a well integrated theme use with animations, artwork, music, and sound.
Some operators got "confused" on how to fix the game, or just thought the Mist Multiball feature was more trouble that it was worth and disabled or modified the use of the function.
This game is not that temperamental in comparison to games such as Shadow or STTNG.
The game is more prone to planking due to insert use and LS manufacture.

As bit of pinball history as far as collectors are concerned, nobody even cared about this game before around 2002.
Many all over the world were in warehouses with a layer of dust.
Some were rescued before they were parted out for the WPC board sets which was common as the PCBs were worth more than the game.
I reimported dozens in the early 2000s.
It is always interesting to see people's opinions when they first "discover" the game today which is much different than those over 20 years ago.

That is a little intense, people could just a stone gargoyle, as looks great on mine.
Still scares people though with the "following eyes".