The world is mostly open and you can reach many areas way out of order if you are willing to wander a lot.In true old-school fashion, it’s important to find easily accessible chests that refill themselves with valuable items and repeatedly mine them for resale Money remained relevant the entire game.Sometimes it’s easy to connect the dots but there are times when you need to actually think and make your own inferences It’s very important to pay attention when talking to people or reading in-game books if you want to find people and items or learn how to deal with certain monsters.Was the color bleed and lag on the Apple ][ really this pronounced? I haven’t used one in 30+ years but it always seemed at least as quick as a C64 running the same program, and maybe a little blurrier but still legible.Some comments, which are mostly positive: Two 100% INT-based (pretty much interchangeable - this type of build doesn’t allow for any real diversity).Two 100% DEX-based (1 dual-wield melee, 1 dual-wield thrown). Two 100% STR-based (1 2-handed, 1 sword & shield).My party, which ended at level 10 (max) with their most-used skills around 90 - 110: After an hour or two I switched to the excellent Nox Archaist Companion developed by rikkles, which made the character stats much easier to keep track of. For some reason I found it intimidating to get started, although it became much easier to play and was actually borderline addictive after the first 30 minutes or so. Overall I enjoyed it a lot – it’s very successful at the Ultima V vibe it’s clearly trying for. I recently finished this game after having it in my queue for well over a year.
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