Color in an ASCII game?

Do you guys feel that color in an ASCII game adds or takes away from the appeal? And by color I of course mean text color and background color of individual characters.

It’s good as long as it’s done well. (read: palette(s))

have you seen dwarf fortress? that thing goes in and out of color like theres no tommorow, people have no clue whats going on but atleast it looks interesting.

And cancerous, horrible looking game.

This game has some good use of color. So does a game called Brogue.