Ultima II Day 3 - FINAL -

I've finally finished Ultima II. The whole last day of playing was spent killing monsters for gold. Can you believe it? That's all I did. At first I went around earth circa 1990 but there weren't enough monsters so I headed to pangea which was a lot better. Eventually though it still wasn't enough and I headed to the Time of Legends. There everything went much faster.















This game really wasn't good. Just to show you, here I am struggling to remember what exactly I did in this game today. It was really monotonous and it's affecting my memory :)

Let's see where I left off yesterday...oh yes. The first thing I did today was up my stats again at the hotel. I was really pissed off near the end when I realized that the more money I gave the clerk the more he raised my stats. If I had known that earlier it would have saved me a lot of running outside to save each and everytime I got a stat raised. I was also really pissed that every point of charisma after the 70th one was absolutely useless. Things cost as much at 99 than they do at 70.

New San Antonio. Unsurprisingly, when I talked to him he said he had a quick blade so I boughSo after raising my stats a bit I decided it was time to get the power armor. So, yes you guessed it, I killed monsters for money. Afterwards I bought the armor. At that point I had remarqued something funny; if I saw someone who was not moving in town then that person surely had something important to say. Well except for guards obviously. It got to a point where the only NPC's I talked to were the ones who weren't moving. There was one like that in the prison int it from him. Some other guy told me "She must be a 9-9-9!!" I thought he meant a year at first but I guess not. I talked to the oracle nine times to see all he had to say. At first I was really pissed off I thought he was telling me bullshit, he rambled on and on about some old man under a tree I couldn't believe it. Here I am giving loads of cash to this dude and he's raving like a lunatic? I wanted to kill him. But then when I was in NSA (again!) I opened a couple of doors and found an NPC standing below...some letters spelling "atree". Honestly that is so awesome and retarded at the same time. I guess British felt poetic but didn't have the technology to show his vision so he improvised :)

Like I thought yesterday, the power armor was the key to space travel. This time when I launched the shuttle it stayed in the air. I was confused at first since it said "You are drifting through space!" and I was like what the hell? Then I hit H for hyperspace and it asked for some coordinates, at this point I was on the verge of pulling my hair out but then I remembered "She must be at 9-9-9!" and I typed in that. Like magic it worked and I was on planet x. Well, after crashing the first three times that is but after learning how to land I was on planet x. Nothing much to see there. In fact there's nothing much to see in this game so that wasn't any different.

I have no idea how I had the presence of mind to type in "6-6-6" to return to earth but I sort of thought it must have been that. Back down I killed monsters up to about 5000 at which point I bought the ring from the old man (thanks to the oracle for pointing that out). With the rest of the money I finished upping my stats, maxed out my hit points and bought as much food as I could. See pictures:















At this point I was finally ready for Minax. Thus begins truly the only really fun part of the game. I went to the the time of legends with the plane ready to wage war. I didn't meet much resistance outside since I had already wiped out everyone but once I got inside it got a little bit more interesting. I headed straight up to the throne and was ASTONISHED that she wasn't there! I couldn't believe it! Had I forgotten to do something before going? I couldn't think of anything so I looked for her in the castle.


















I kept running around and couldn't find her. I was getting attacked from all sides but I was making mincemeat out of them. The castle is pretty messed up. You find all sorts of weird people like an insurance salesman (?) and a cleric who tells you to believe in the devil. Well I guess the cleric wasn't that strange but the insurance salesman sure was. At this point though I was on the verge of finding Minax but I had a problem...this invincible Balron was after me and he was literally taking chunks out of my HP every time he hit me! After running away from him I managed to trap him in a corner.















I was finally free to face Minax! The battle was sort of anticlimatic. I found her, hit her once, she teleported to another chamber, I hit her again, after five hits she dies. A weak game ends weakly, fitting isn't it? However the final line is pretty nice "All her works shall die!". Classic :)















Oh well. I'm done with this game and I couldn't be happier. I certainly don't regret playing, I had to. It's a game I played in my childhood and never understood but now I understand it. It's okay, there are worse games than that out there I guess. But I'll surely never replay it, once was enough. It will undoubtedly end up being the worse of all Ultimas I will play during my little journey. Now it's time to move on to Ultima III! Man am I excited about that one, Ultima III is probably THE Ultima of my childhood, it's the one I saw my father play all the time. I can't wait to finish it again!