Pix’s Origin Adventures: The Terror of Exodus and Britannia Kingdom Crisis
Pix continues his stroll through Ultima 3-inspired material from Japan, with the Britannia Kingdom Crisis gamebook (which seems unrelated to the previously-posted Cabal of Zole the Mage) and a manga comic entitled The Terror of Exodus. About the latter, Pix remarks that:
As the title suggests, it’s based around Ultima 3 although you may start to wonder when it jumps to outer space after the early colour section. Also, the ending would be more in keeping with Final Fantasy with planets/moons crashing together and giant monster battles so epic they won’t fit on one page. It certainly looks like fun and the artwork isn’t bad on the whole. Like all this weeks books, I only wish I could read it.
It wasn’t the easiest to scan but it’s now in the downloads for anyone to take a look. On the off chance anyone wanted to use this to do a scanlation, please don’t feel the need to ask first.
Concerning the gamebook, meanwhile, Pix has this to say:
…my lack of Japanese prevents me saying too much about this but it was number 31 in the Adventure Hero Books series and based on the world of Ultima 3. As with all of these, I’m reduced to looking at the pictures which I’d hope aren’t this books strong point. While the artwork is less cartoony than Cabal Of Zola The Mage, the quality is nowhere near the same standard.
He has posted a gallery of images from Britannia Kingdom Crisis, but did not opt to do so for the manga comic. Complete downloads of both pieces are available, however.
If I don’t miss my guess, Britannia Kingdom Crisis looks like a “choose your own adventure” book. So reading it in order really wouldn’t make sense, even in Japanese. I can’t make heads or tails of the actual content either, but… it goes look interesting!
I would be tempted by the scanlation… had I more free time to devote to it
The covers actually pretends the original draft/plan was by Lord British (just under the Mangaka name)
Trapped on the saint planet of Sosoria, just what is Exodus?
Will the Dragon Warrior answer Lord British’ summons?
A deadly struggle follows.
Friends…friends.
http://www.sceneryrecalled.com/trans/ultemang.txt
This translation was done a while ago, and I’ve wanted to update it to make the text flow a bit more smoothly. The entire text of the manga is there, though.