I can happily say that with one swift arc of a tentacled appendage, all of the problems with the first edition of Mansions of Madness are swept off the table.
I'm still not sure if it was my mistake or an error in the rulebook but one game fell completely apart when we realised the key to a locked door was placed on the wrong side of said door. Worst of all it, was very easy to make a mistake during setup. The rulebook was more difficult to decipher than the Necronomicon and it took so long to set up it would have been quicker to summon an actual dimensional shambler. The problem was it was as shonky as a shoggoth with a gammy leg. It also introduced some new ideas each mansion was heavily story based and relied on the players solving simple clues, as well as a Crystal Maze like puzzles, before the GM player could complete whatever dark ritual he had in mind. It followed a lot of the classic dungeon crawler mechanics exploration, combat, miniatures and a GM playing the bad guy.
The first edition of Mansions of Madness was always a bit of a cult classic (pun intended), a blend of Fantasy Flight Games' Descent dungeon crawler and Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu RPG (the title Mansions of Madness is taken straight from a compendium of scenarios for the pen and paper roleplaying game).
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