Ultima Exodus NES Review - The Ultimate Obsession.

I played this game so much when it first came out it literally broke me and a girlfriend up. Today that girlfriend is my wife, and I don't get to play this as much as I used to, but every time I do, I still love it. This is a faithful cover of the PC games, perhaps better because of the graphics, and is just as engrossing. Money is the key in this one, as if costs bookoo bucks to get your characters strong. Unfortunately, the best way to get money is buy going into the dungeons, and at the start of the game this is a little risky for your party of 4 to do, so at the start you must fight almost unbearable amounts of enemies to pick up armor/weapons in the town stores. If you can get past this, the game starts picking up more speed.
The dungeons, thankfully, are easy to map out on standard graph paper, and the land of Britannia itself in this version isn't so huge it even needs to be mapped after playing awhile.
The only problem I have is the graphics tend to flicker a lot, and the theif doesn't get as strong as he should for the job he has. If this guy was stronger, the game would be a lot less tedious in the beginning. 9 out of 10

-ToddVania