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Ultima IX (Video Game)
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Ultima IX: Ascension (1999) is a video game, the ninth and final installment in the Ultima series of role playing games by Origin Systems.The Avatar is called to Britannia one last time, where he discovers a series of monoliths have risen all across the kingdom, and the locals are acting very strangely indeed. It turns out that these towers are the doing of the Guardian, whose realm, Pagan, the Avatar has recently escaped from. It's down to you to defeat the Guardian once and for all... by making a Heroic Sacrifice. | |
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Flaming Sword | |
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Flaming Sword: While it's incredibly useful for seeing in dark areas, it's actually... not that powerful a weapon, really. | |
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Brainwashed and Crazy | |
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Brainwashed and Crazy: Almost all of the 8 companions have been corrupted by the Guardian and turned into members of his Wyrmguard, serving as the bosses of several of the Glyph Column dungeons (the only exceptions are one who was considered too weak by the Guardian to be worth bothering with, one who was stuck in the Ethereal Void at the time, and one who was busy being dead). The Avatar can either redeem them with a Puzzle Boss fight related to their respective virtue, or just straight up kill them with hacking and slashing. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: The Bob White plot would have revealed the Time Lord to be the last of the Ultima, creating The Codex of Ultimate Wisdom as the guide to Ascension. | |
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Lord British Postulate | |
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Lord British Postulate: The trope namer returns, invulnerable to attack... unless you made a poisoned loaf of bread on Earth and feed it to him. Then he drops like a brick. | |
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Karma Meter | |
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In Buccaneer's Den, a prostitute will offer you a good time. Taking her up on it leaves you with less gold, and it also hurts your Karma Meter. Resist the temptation, Avatar! | |
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Bag of Spilling | |
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Bag of Spilling: The Avatar completed Ultima 8 as the Titan of Aether but begins this game with all of his stats being either "poor" or "dim" and having no magic whatsoever. Even if he starts out as a mage! | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Lampshade Hanging: After the infamous 'The Codex of Ultimate Wisdom?' line, the gargoyle he's speaking to offers us this: | |
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Memetic Mutation | |
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Lord British invokedis not entirely sure why bad things are afoot in Britannia. This despite the fact that he learned about Guardian and his plans to invade Britannia several games ago and now there is an enormous stone carving of the Guardian's head at the entrance of his main fortress. | |
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Game-Breaking Bug | |
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Game-Breaking Bug: More than a few of them too, even after patching. | |
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What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids? | |
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In one cutscene, Raven makes sure the Avatar has a invokednon-optional sexual encounter. | |
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Death Is Cheap | |
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Death Is Cheap: Even if you do choose to kill your former companions during the course of the game, they'll all be resurrected (along with Sir Dupre, who died two games previously) with no ill effects whatsoever, after you restore the Shrine of Spirituality. | |
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Video Game 3D Leap | |
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Video Game 3D Leap: This was the first (and in the end, only) game in the main series to be 3D. | |
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Misplaced Accent | |
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Misplaced Accent: Bizarrely, a number of different Earth accents pop up here and there in the game. There are at least one person with a thick French accent and one with a Russian accent, on a world with no France or Russia, or Fantasy Counterpart Culture for them. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: Technically, as the Avatar is promised that his "knowledge of the land shall be great" once he reaches Britannia. However, most of the game has him being clueless about just about everything and needing NPCs to constantly enlighten him. | |
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You ALL Look Familiar | |
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You All Look Familiar: Character models being constantly re-used is par for the course with this genre, but this game also re-uses models for main characters with little or no alteration. Most infamously, this creates the impression that Gwenno is moonlighting as a prostitute in Buccaneer's Den. | |
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You Have Researched Breathing | |
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You Have Researched Breathing: A woman has to tell the Avatar how to eat food. Granted, this is a way of letting the player know that Nobody Eats is averted, but the way it's presented is really silly. One of the first books you come across tells you how to read books and how helpful it can be. | |
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Elemental Weapon | |
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Elemental Weapon: The game has swords of fire, ice and lightning variety. | |
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Hit-and-Run Tactics | |
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Hit-and-Run Tactics: As with the previous entry in the series, this is often the optimal way to win battles, since you no longer have a party and enemies are often too stupid to try pursuing you more than a few feet. | |
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Fisher Kingdom | |
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Fisher Kingdom: According to design documents, the widespread magical corruption of the land is weighing on Lord British physically, which is the reason why he suddenly looks so old. | |
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Nobody Poops | |
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A woman has to tell the Avatar how to eat food. Granted, this is a way of letting the player know that Nobody Eats is averted, but the way it's presented is really silly. | |
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Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe | |
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Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: Averted.It's the first game in the entire Ultima series where none of the characters speak like this. | |
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RailRoading | |
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Rail Roading: You're given only a small amount of freedom up until you've cleansed the first shrine, and still forced into a very specific sequence of storyline events throughout the game. The previous three games tended to do this a little bit as well, but you still had a lot of freedom to act once you'd gotten out of the first major area. If you've played the other games, you probably know the correct words to activate the shrines... except that the game will reject the correct word until you've done the relevant quest to discover the word. Which would make a lot more sense if this wasn't something the Avatar's had to do on multiple adventures by now. | |
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Disc-One Nuke | |
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Disc-One Nuke: You can find a two-handed sword in catacombs on the cliffs right next to Paws, which will serve you well for a long while. | |
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Plot Hole | |
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Plot Hole: The game is riddled with them. A few examples include the Time Lord's warnings in Ultima VII that the Guardian will be unstoppable upon entering Britannia, the circumstance surrounding the summoning of Pyros (which should be impossible for a variety of reasons, the least of which is that the Avatar killed Pyros in Pagan), the whole issue with magic and the appearance of several things which shouldn't be possible owing to the fact that they've ceased to be (i.e. Mondain's Skull, Korghin's Fang, Dupre's Ashes, Stonegate, etc). | |
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Gemini Destruction Law | |
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Gemini Destruction Law: The three demon lords plaguing Valoria are thought to be invincible, until you learn the key to defeating them is to slay them all at the same time. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: The Avatar himself sacrifices his corporeal form in order to destroy the Guardian in the game's ending. In a rare inversion, Sir Dupre's sacrifice from all the way back in Serpent Isle is casually undone, with no real explanation of how or why it happened. | |
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Putting the Band Back Together | |
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Putting the Band Back Together: Averted. Most of the "team" from the previous games are present in this one, but unlike other games in the main series (Ultima VIII: Pagan excepted), you can't actually get any of them to come with you. | |
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Optional Sexual Encounter | |
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Optional Sexual Encounter: In Buccaneer's Den, a prostitute will offer you a good time. Taking her up on it leaves you with less gold, and it also hurts your Karma Meter. Resist the temptation, Avatar! In one cutscene, Raven makes sure the Avatar has a invokednon-optional sexual encounter. | |
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Took a Level in Dumbass | |
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Took a Level in Dumbass: The Avatar has forgotten practically everything that he experienced in the previous games. See Idiot Hero above. | |
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Idiot Ball | |
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Idiot Ball: Aside from the Avatar's legendary case, the Guardian can pretty much kill anyone on the planet with a thought. He nukes Skara Brae with fire with a thought. And yet his ultimate plan relies on his 'giant evil columns' dropping moons on the planet. Why not just kill everyone with magic and avoid the complexity? Lord British invokedis not entirely sure why bad things are afoot in Britannia. This despite the fact that he learned about Guardian and his plans to invade Britannia several games ago and now there is an enormous stone carving of the Guardian's head at the entrance of his main fortress. | |
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Idiot Hero | |
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Idiot Hero: The Avatar comes across as one, due to seemingly knowing absolutely nothing, even basic facts, about the world he's explored and been the savior of for the past dozen games. While his dialogue was obviously scripted this way to avoid invokedContinuity Lockout for new gamers who haven't played any of the other games, it makes him come across as a complete moron (earlier games handled this much better with As You Know dialogue instead of giving the Avatar a sudden onset case of complete amnesia). Early on, the Avatar says he should have known Blackthorn was behind Britannia's corruption. The scene immediately previous to this has one of Blackthorn's soldiers explicitly state so. Even worse, he has to ask about the fate of Skara Brae (despite the fact that the Guardian destroyed it and gave him a front row view) and ask Raven how to cleanse a shrine (when he's done so already). There's forgetting things from the previous games and then there's forgetting things that just happened hours, if not minutes, ago. | |
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Plot-Relevant Age-Up | |
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Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Was almost this trope. In short, Lord British appears here as an old man with white hair and a long beard, while in all the other games he was a spry young king with brown hair and a goatee. In early drafts of the script, this was explained to be the result of a curse by the Guardian, but that got cut in the final game, so he just looks old. | |
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Continuity Cavalcade | |
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Continuity Cavalcade: The museum area is meant to be this, with its artifacts from previous games however the fact that they're there in the first place goes against any and all continuity in the first place. | |
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Back from the Dead | |
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Back from the Dead: Sir Dupre. Given the nature of his original death, this probably means the universe falls apart a month or so after the game ends. | |
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Out-of-Character Moment | |
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Out-of-Character Moment: The time when the Avatar says "What's a paladin?" At one point he could have been a Paladin himself before he became the Avatar, and even then ignores his close friend The Paladin Dupre. | |
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Dumb Blonde | |
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Dumb Blonde: What the game also turns the Avatar into. To a lesser extent, Gwenno, who gets turned from an Action Girl into a housewife for this game, and for some strange reason now has blonde hair instead of brown. | |
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Physical God | |
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Physical God: The Guardian, which makes you wonder why he needs the Wyrmguards or Blackthorn when he can do all the things he can. The Avatar was supposed to be one, the Titan of Ether, but the game forgets about that while bringing in things from Pagan that shouldn't be there. | |
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Convection, Schmonvection | |
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Convection, Schmonvection: Valoria (the replacement for Jhelom, the town of Valor) is built inside an active volcano, with rivers of lava flowing across the streets. | |
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Fade to Black | |
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The biggest is that the previous game is entirely about getting back to Britannia to stop the Guardian's invasion, finally gaining the power to construct your own black gate and make the journey only to find that the world has already fallen and Fade to Black. This game starts with the Avatar home on Earth with no idea the Guardian had even returned. Shortly after he gets to Britannia, he does see a red sky with a giant stone head of the Guardian, kind of like the conclusion to U8, but this is Broad Strokes at best. | |
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RetCon | |
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Retcon: Probably the main reason (other than the bugs and the simplistic gameplay) why this game is so widely hated in the Ultima community. While every other Ultima game retconned some lore from its predecessors (mostly stuff added for flavor), they can't even compare to the sheer number of continuity errors and deliberate retcons in this game. This website in particular was dedicated to listing all the inconsistencies in the Ultima games, and there are about as many pages about U9 (if not more) on that site as there are pages about all other Ultima games taken together. The biggest is that the previous game is entirely about getting back to Britannia to stop the Guardian's invasion, finally gaining the power to construct your own black gate and make the journey only to find that the world has already fallen and Fade to Black. This game starts with the Avatar home on Earth with no idea the Guardian had even returned. Shortly after he gets to Britannia, he does see a red sky with a giant stone head of the Guardian, kind of like the conclusion to U8, but this is Broad Strokes at best. The Time Lord is Hawkwind the Seer. In the Bob White plot, the Time Lord is the last of an ancient race of beings and created The Codex of Ultimate Wisdom. | |
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Colony Drop | |
| Ultima IX (Video Game) / int_b3eecaae | comment |
Aside from the Avatar's legendary case, the Guardian can pretty much kill anyone on the planet with a thought. He nukes Skara Brae with fire with a thought. And yet his ultimate plan relies on his 'giant evil columns' dropping moons on the planet. Why not just kill everyone with magic and avoid the complexity? | |
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Money Spider | |
| Ultima IX (Video Game) / int_bc0ad0c0 | comment |
Money Spider: Every damn monster drops a pile of coins upon death, which is something the previous games had carefully veered away from. | |
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Costume Copycat | |
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Costume Copycat: One of these can be found in a hut outside Britain, claiming to be the Avatar's biggest fan. | |
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Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence | |
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Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Theoretically this is what happens to the Avatar at the end of the game, though in practice it just looks like him blowing himself and the Guardian up. | |
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Trophy Room | |
| Ultima IX (Video Game) / int_bef9ad0 | comment |
Trophy Room: This is the intention of the museum, showing artifacts from past games and briefly summarizing the events of those games. | |
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Dragon Rider | |
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Dragon Rider: The Guardian's villainous Wyrmguards, though sometimes having a dragon with them is optional. | |
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Enemy Without | |
| Ultima IX (Video Game) / int_c6afe285 | comment |
Enemy Without: The Guardian turns out to be the Avatar's evil side. | |
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Series Continuity Error | |
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Series Continuity Error: As seen above under Retcon, Ultima IX contains a nigh-uncountable number of these. | |
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Suddenly Voiced | |
| Ultima IX (Video Game) / int_d40a8a0f | comment |
Suddenly Voiced: Everybody has actual voices in this one. Most noticably the Avatar himself, who in the previous games was always a Heroic Mime. | |
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Continuity Snarl | |
| Ultima IX (Video Game) / int_df582b0b | comment |
Continuity Snarl: The game has too many to count. Several significant items from earlier games show up despite being previously completely destroyed or last seen in another dimension, and many have a different functionality from what they did in previous games. Virtues and magic work in drastically different ways from earlier games with no explanation. Established characters have personalities that clash with their histories that players have seen play out. The game even begins with a Continuity Snarl — Ultima VIII ended with the Avatar returning to Britannia and finding its been turned into Mordor and ruled by the Guardian, who was busy conquering the land during VIII, but IX opens with the Avatar sleeping in their bed on Earth being called to Britannia because "the Guardian has invaded Britannia" and when they arrive there the Guardian is still at war to take it over. | |
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Pimped-Out Dress | |
| Ultima IX (Video Game) / int_e5448c9 | comment |
Pimped-Out Dress: In the tapestry, Minax from Ultima II is drawn in a green dress with fur-lining, which can be seen in the hanging sleeves. | |
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Grid Inventory | |
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Grid Inventory: The only game in the series that adopts this approach, after previously using either text or freeform inventories. | |
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Purity Personified | |
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Purity Personified: Ascension would have you believe this about the Avatar despite the games having mentioned: "No soul in life can be purged completely of virtue or vice." This, by the way, was used as the origin of the Guardian. As in, he's the Avatar's dark half. | |
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Easily Forgiven | |
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Easily Forgiven: Whenever you do anything bad in this game — including killing your former companions — it's invariably reacted to with what amounts to a shrug and being told "oh well, you had no choice." | |
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Continuity Lock-Out | |
| Ultima IX (Video Game) / int_f97be86e | comment |
The Avatar comes across as one, due to seemingly knowing absolutely nothing, even basic facts, about the world he's explored and been the savior of for the past dozen games. While his dialogue was obviously scripted this way to avoid invokedContinuity Lockout for new gamers who haven't played any of the other games, it makes him come across as a complete moron (earlier games handled this much better with As You Know dialogue instead of giving the Avatar a sudden onset case of complete amnesia). | |
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Sequence Breaking | |
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Sequence Breaking: Using the Avatar's normal jumping abilities, and a little bit of trial and error, it's actually possible to scale whole mountains, and therefore skip two-thirds of the game. Elsewhere, the game uses ridiculously narrow spans of water as barriers, which can be crossed by laying down items to float on the water and use as stepping stones. | |
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You Shouldn't Know This Already | |
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If you've played the other games, you probably know the correct words to activate the shrines... except that the game will reject the correct word until you've done the relevant quest to discover the word. Which would make a lot more sense if this wasn't something the Avatar's had to do on multiple adventures by now. | |
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