Today’s game is actually a fairly familiar one: Ultima V.  It’s the one entry in the main series that I never got around to playing, since it didn’t come out for the Atari that I had at the time, and I later got it as part of the collections but it was left in “I’ll get back to it at some point” state for ages.  So, today I finally gave it it’s shot, and…yeah, of course it’s a keeper.  I’ll probably continue to play it alongside the other game-a-day entries for a while.  So far, I’ve picked up most of the people I want in my party (Iolo, Gwenno, Julia, Jaana, and Mariah), and visited most of the major cities, but I need to farm a bit for some gold, food, xp, and equipment.  I nearly starved to death at one point, but I think I’m safe for now.

I originally tried to get the Amiga version working in an emulator, since it has better music and sound, but it also loads a lot more slowly and I couldn’t get it to actually write to the disks, so I couldn’t save the game or create a new party.  Oh well, the PC version will do.

Like the name says, in Hack Slash Loot, you hack and, uh loot.  That’s about it.  It’s a roguelike, but the mechanics are extremely simple.  There’s no inventory, so you just have to decide whether to use or discard anything you come across.  You attack just by clicking on the enemies.  If there’s anything deeper to it later on, I don’t know, because I kept dying over and over again because it’s also hard as hell.  Cute, but I want something a bit deeper in my roguelikes.

I did at least get one achievement though, for dying in less than 20 turns…