I remember see ads for this at the time and really wanting to play it for years. But when I finally found years later on abandonware, I was mostly confused and a bit underwhelmed. Is it worth giving it another go?
It’s difficult to answer, since it relies on personal needs and tastes of course, but I feel that it withstood the test of time very well.
It’s deeply enjoyable, and may surprise you - thieving classes may disappear during sleep with some of your gold. Members of the party may dislike each other and even kill one another. There’s a quest, where a male party member may fall in love with a rescued princess. Mazes are difficult to survive. Enemies guarding vital places in the world are very powerful. The world itself seems quite vast.
I always enjoyed playing the game and I wouldn’t mind doing it again.
It was all the stuff about party members turning on each other that made me so excited back in the day. I think when I finally played it I was expecting something much more narrative (I’m a big ultima fan) so I was a bit disappointed. But I should give it another go, with clearer expectations! It still looks gorgeous.
The game is more a “dungeon crawler” under an open sky, than an open-world game. There’s not much of a story there, no deep dialogues.
But, given the times it was released, it’s not unexpected…
It was also probably the only game where you had to pay gold to save game.
