While this feature might make the game seem more approachable at first, the game gets pretty challenging very quickly. Namely, it allows you storage to save items and weapons you find while farming through a replayed dungeon-something that you will be doing a lot of, and also allows you to keep experience points you earned through the dungeon which allows you to increase your character level and stats. If you die, you lose all of your items and progress and start over again from the beginning-very brutal! Interestingly, while Ultimatum shares a lot in common with typical roguelike game design, it also tries to make the game more approachable with features of its own. Unlosing Ranger VS Darkdeath Evilman wherein the main objective of the game is to survive through randomly generated dungeons, and try to get through as many enemy and trap filled floors as possible with whatever randomly generated items and equipment you find along the way.
Ultimatum is actually more reminiscent of dungeon crawling roguelikes similar to Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Shiren the Wanderer or Z.H.P. As I played through the game over the last few days, dying repeatedly and losing all of my inventory and weapons again and again, I couldn’t help but find the more punishing aspect of the game made me want to play smarter, more tactical, and approach everything more cautiously and meticulously each new time and in this way made getting through to the end of any one of the many difficult dungeons a reward in itself– and also made it feel a lot more like a Souls game. The Awakened Fate Ultimatum a roguelike role-playing game made by Nippon Ichi isn’t exactly a Souls game, but in a lot of ways it sort of is. With regards to games with punishing difficulty, it’s interesting to see certain games like the recent From Soft’s Bloodborne take off in popularity given the developer’s notorious reputation for brutally punishing it’s players for making even the slightest mistake and then having all of their precious hard earned progress instantly taken away, only to have them do it all over again until they learn to do it right.
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