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…
