onsdag 11 oktober 2017

King's Quest VII: The Princless Bride

Well this look nice!


King's Quest VII is actually the first game in the series I ever played as a kid. We got it for Mac with a CD drive and you know it was gonna be something special when it opens with this intro:

This doesn't look that nice

Story is that one day princess Rosella and her mother Valanice is out walking, talking about marriage since Rosella is getting to that age. She detest the idea and instead focus on something in a small pond and decides to jump into it... I know this is a fairy tale, but what? Valanice follows and sees Rosella being grabbed by something and she ends up in some desert area.

Great, I HATE deserts!

So this game is divided in chapters with chapter 1, 3 and 5 following Valanice and 2, 4 and 6 following Rosella. Valanice is trying to find Rosella and it takes her from this desert to a magical forest where the guardians been transformed by an evil fairy and a town of weird animals. All this is on the borders of the were-beasts forrest and the land of the dead where the lord of land takes Valanice to Etheria where the fairies lives... I don't know why, the story pretty much lost me on chapter 5. All I get is that the evil fairy came from around here and some dream fairy could show her Rosella? It doesn't seem to matter that much since the important story is actually Rosella who was kidnapped by an ogre king and by some strange magic turned into a ogre herself. So first she has to revers the spell, then escape the land of the ogres to the land of the dead in search of the real ogre king that was trapped by the boogy man by the evil fairy who want's to let the volcano the ogres control destroy Etheria as revenge. Rosella finds him and a magical wand, escapes to the weird animal town and a secret passage down back to the land of the ogres where she confront the fake king and as the kings duke it out turn the fraud back to it's true self, Edgar, the prince Rosella saved back in the fourth game. I know, I didn't know who he was either first time getting that far.

What is it with the animation?

Yadda-yadda-yadda, Rosella turns the evil fairy to a baby, she and Edgar hooks up and they travel back home... I think, the ending isn't quite clear on it. And this is if you save Edgar who takes a blast to the face from the evil fairy. 

The heroic act of prince-what's-his-name

I do have nostalgic memories of this game, and sadly most is remembering how impossible it was for me as a child since I couldn't understand what to do since I didn't know english. And the game is probably best just remembering. The animation is best remembered since your mind will fill out the lacking art for you, the music... fine, but the intro song isn't girl in the tower. Voice acting... passable. As you can see, not the best in the series and there's a bit of a problem with it. And it's also the last King's Quest game I played. Well, except for the Silver Lining-games, but i'm still waiting for the final episode and it's been 6 years already. Someday I might play the new King's Quest-game with Cristopher Lloyd, but I just doesn't have the computer for it or the internet to download it. So we shall see... and I won't be playing the 8th game. Although I like the intro music.




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