Ultima The False Prophet
Ultima The False Prophet

Ultima The False Prophet

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Complete in box: the cartridge, the manual and the box, all original. Original inserts or paperwork shown in the photos are included; display stands and other photography props are not. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.

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The Avatar wakes on a gargoyle altar, moments from being sacrificed, until Iolo, Shamino and Dupre burst in to drag their old friend back to Britannia. It is one of the great openings in computer RPG history, and Ultima: The False Prophet brings it to the Super Nintendo. This is the console version of Ultima VI, the final chapter of Richard Garriott's Age of Enlightenment trilogy, and the story it tells was far more morally complicated than anything else on the shelf beside it.

At first the quest seems simple. Gargoyles have invaded Britannia and seized the Shrines of Virtue, and the Avatar must win them back. But the deeper you go, the more the picture changes. The gargoyles have their own culture and their own virtues, and to them the Avatar is not a hero at all but the False Prophet of their legends, the figure blamed for their world's suffering. The quest gradually shifts from defeating an enemy to understanding one and finding a path to peace, a striking theme for an early-nineties RPG.

Ultima VI was built around a single, seamless world where towns, dungeons and wilderness share one continuous map, and where objects can be picked up, moved and used rather than serving as scenery. The Super Nintendo version reworks that design for a controller and a television screen, so the experience is streamlined compared with the mouse-driven computer original, and Dragon magazine rated it below the PC classic. What it keeps is the scope of Britannia, its talkative townsfolk and the slow, rewarding unraveling of the gargoyle mystery.

Console versions of Ultima are a distinctive corner of RPG history, and this cartridge brings Ultima VI's story to a Nintendo system. For players who know the series from its PC heyday, it is a fascinating adaptation, and for Super Nintendo RPG collectors, it is a thoughtful, unusual entry that sits apart from the Japanese RPGs that dominated the console.

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