Ultima™ 9: Ascension

This game has problems but it is far from as bad as people claim. The game has some of the best designed dungeons of any games since its release. Also, maybe I'm riding the crazy train here, but I think I enjoyed Ultima 9 more than I enjoyed Ultima 8.

I started the Ultima series with this game and I fell in love with it because it had very beautiful environment and the music is superb! There were some bugs in the game, but it's not a big deal. You maybe have to use the fly cheat to get the virtue stones from the altar when merging the items together because it sometimes get stuck in the air, but except from that I didn't really find any relevant bugs. I actually love almost everything with this game so I don't understand all the haters out there. When I finished this game I started from the beginning with Ultima 1,2,3,4 and 5 and I finished them all. Very good games all of them, though I used walkthrough most of the time since I didn't want to spend 1000 hours. I just wanted to see what happened before Ultima 9. When I came to the 6:th game I couldn't stand the graphics. That made me never complete 6,7 and 8 which is a pity. However, this is a great game with fantastic music and I really like the story and the puzzles as well.

Although there are many disappointments, the world of Ultima is constructed in a stunning 3D space, and just being able to freely explore within it is satisfying. Even though the story has been simplified from the original plan, I think it is a fitting final chapter in the series.

This game is just... awful. Besides numerous errors in the series own history, it had broken gameplay and broken quests and a story that just didnt make sense to anyone familiar with the prior games. Think what EA did with C@C4 was bad? you have no idea compared to what was done with this series.

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