Fission Mailed: Do not Rage Quit when your boat gets sucked into the whirlpool and you get the GAME OVER text.Everything Trying to Kill You: In Exodus' lair, floor panels actually attack you, as does the grass outside! In his interview with Spoony, Richard Garriott explains that this was because he had run out of space on the disk by this point, and realized that turning the floor and grass tiles into enemies actually made for a very difficult, strategically demanding battle worthy of the story's endgame.Dungeon Crawling: You actually have to enter most of them now usually to get 'Marks' which grant special abilities or get past a Broken Bridge.Disc-One Nuke: The most powerful weapons and armor in the entire game are available as soon as you get a ship and you know that you have to special command: dig on the tiny islands just off the coast.The only way to bring a character back from that is through the Recalling spell (Anju Sermani), which is extremely expensive and literally Powered by a Forsaken Child. A failed resurrection will turn a dead character to ashes. Deader than Dead: III is the only Ultima game to feature such a condition.The expansion of Ultima VII went into even more detail. Although via Retcon later in Ultima VI it is revealed that it was Exodus too.Chekhov's Gunman: The cover of Ultima III showed this demon looking thing that is presumably Exodus.Cards of Power: The cards that defeat Exodus.Note that this is the only Ultima game with this split. Black and White Magic: Magic Power and Will Power, respectively, which the different classes can use to various extents.Beneath the Earth: The Underworld (referred to as Ambrosia) first appeared in this installment.Art-Shifted Sequel: The original American version uses top-down tile-based sprites with no animation and realistically-proportioned characters, while the Japan-developed NES port of this game and Ultima IV used super-deformed Animesque artwork - in fact, this went on to inspire Dragon Quest.Alternate World Map: Ambrosia, which is technically the underworld, is a smaller world map with palette swapped world map tiles and tiny buildings to enter.One of the ships that got too close to the Isle of Fire was found drifting offshore with its crew missing and a word written in blood on the deck. Some people have claimed that there is a castle in the middle, but the only way into the island is blocked by the Immortal Earth Serpent that can not be moved. In the midst of this, an Isle of Fire has arisen in the ocean. Did they have a child? Did they have some kind of demon servant that was overlooked? Was something left from all of that Schizo Tech from mucking around with Time Travel? Yes. The game mentions they had an 'unholy union'.

A 'remnant' left over from the times of Mondain and Minax has survived. They're organized they're taking orders from someone or some thing but nobody knows what. The Stranger killed the Big Bads of the previous two games, Mondain and Minax but the waves and waves of monsters keep coming. The game style would later inspire games such as Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. First released in 1983, finally quests and dungeons started fitting together better and with more explanation. Ultima III is the first Ultima that was published by Origin Systems.

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