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'''''Ultima IX: Ascension''''' (1999) is
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.
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* [[Back
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]
* [[Costume Copycat]]
* [[Crate Expectations]]
* [[Cross Player]]:
* [[Dummied Out]]
* [[Flaming Sword]]
* [[Gameplay Ally Immortality]]
* [[Grand Finale]]
▲* [[Game Breaking Bug]] -- More than a few of them too, even after patching.
* [[Grid Inventory]]: The only game in the series that adopts this approach, after previously using either text or freeform inventories.
▲* [[Grand Finale]] -- This game was intended to be the grand cumulation of the entire series, but suffered serious [[Executive Meddling]] by Electronic Arts during development. Lets just say that many fans consider the final product to be [[Understatement|something of a letdown]].
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]
* [[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.
* [[Idiot Hero]]
* [[In Name Only]]
* [[Loony Fan]]
* [[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.
* [[Obvious Beta]]: The bugginess of the game is legendary. One humorous game review magazine (''Games Accelerator'') posted a fatal error message as one of their screenshots for the game instead of a shot of the gameplay, with a caption, "Lord British and Electronic Arts defeat you with the ultimate foe."
* [[Optional Sexual Encounter]]:
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** In one cut-scene, Raven makes sure the Avatar has a [[What Do You Mean
* [[Polygon Ceiling]]
* [[Putting the Band Back Together]]:
* [[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. [http://hacki.bootstrike.com 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.▼
* [[Railroading]]: 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.
** 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 [[Cut To Black]]. This game starts with the Avatar home on Earth with no idea the Guardian had even returned.▼
** 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.
* [[Sequence Breaking]] -- Using the Avatar's normal jumping abilities, and a little bit of trial and error, its actually possible to scale whole mountains, and therefore skip two-thirds of the game.▼
* [[Retcon]]:
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* [[Suddenly Voiced]] -- Everybody has actual voices in this one. Most noticably the Avatar himself, who in the previous games was always a [[Heroic Mime]].▼
▲** 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 [[
* [[Took a Level In Dumbass]] - The Avatar has forgotten practically ''[[Amnesiac Hero|everything]]'' that he experienced in the previous games. See [[Idiot Hero]] above.▼
▲* [[Sequence Breaking]]
* [[Series Continuity Error]]: As seen above under [[Retcon]], ''Ultima IX'' contains a nigh-uncountable number of these.
▲* [[Suddenly Voiced]]
* [[Thriving Ghost Town]]
▲* [[Took a Level In Dumbass]]
* [[Welcome to Corneria]]
* [[Wretched Hive]]
* [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]]:
▲* [[Cross Player]] -- Previous games in the series allowed you to choose which gender you want the avatar to be, and some of them even gave you a choice of faces for each. ''[[Ultima VIII]]'' did away with this, and IX continues making the Avatar purely and irrefutably male. While the game packaging on previous games in the series nearly always illustrated the Avatar as a "him", meaning it was only ever a [[Purely Aesthetic Gender]] choice anyway, it was still a slap in the face to female players.
▲* [[Putting the Band Back Together]] -- Most of the "team" from the previous games are present in this one, but unlike other games in the series (''[[Ultima Underworld]]'' and ''Ultima VIII: Pagan'' excepted), you can't actually get any of them to come with you.
▲* [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]] -- Its the first game in the entire ''[[Ultima]]'' series where none of the characters speak like this.
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