In King’s Quest 7, take on Roberta Williams’ challenge as you match wits with an evil enchantress bent on your kingdom’s destruction.
Travel through the remarkable worlds of King’s Quest 8, from a dark underground land to a mysterious realm in the clouds. Every turn yields both secret and salvation...
In King’s Quest 7, take on Roberta Williams’ challenge as you match wits with an evil enchantress bent on your kingdom’s destruction.
Travel through the remarkable worlds of King’s Quest 8, from a dark underground land to a mysterious realm in the clouds. Every turn yields both secret and salvation, and every mystery you solve brings you closer to the fiery confrontation that will determine the fate of an entire kingdom!
Includes King’s Quest 7: The Princeless Bride and King’s Quest 8: Mask of Eternity
From old desert tombs to a grim land of the dead, explore the magical realm of Eldritch and save it from destruction
Magical story by Roberta Williams, magnificent landscapes and challenging riddles
This is one of the worst Sierra packages you can buy.
Even if you like the previous six Kings Quest games, do NOT expect to like these!
They're both bad games for different reasons - Kings Quest 7 is extremely childish and looks like a bad Disney ripoff... now I'm fully aware Kings Quest games have always been family oriented but this one is still just way too childish and dumb.
The animation they bragged so much about back then isn't very good either... often very choppy and ugly.
So story wise and graphics wise... this game is a disaster.
The puzzles aren't anything special either but maybe not as bad as the rest of the game.
About Kings Quest 8 - it's not Kings Quest anymore. This is a third person hack'n'slash only with more puzzles than what is common. Slow, ugly, uninteresting, boring... you can find a LOT better games than this. Don't be tricked by the KQ name.
I would only recommend this package to people that absolutely need to have every Kings Quest game released.
Having never felt the desire to play King's Quest VIII when it was on store shelves before, I can only speak of KQ VII. King's Quest VII is by far the friendliest game in the series for players, as it is impossible to miss an item and have to restart or load an early save due to the bookmark saving and smarter (or at least kinder) game design than the previous games. While billed as a Disney style animation made into a game, I often found it more Looney Tunes and occasionally even Ren and Stimpy, lacking much of the grace of the previous two games. The two lead characters are beautifully designed, and the hand painted backgrounds are great, but much of the game lacks the grace and majesty of the more realistic King's Quest V and VI and the story pales in comparison to the more dramatic VI as well. I would recommend the KQ IV-VI collection first, as I believe that each of those is a stronger game. Still, it is a highly enjoyable, polished classic with the most modern graphics of the series and it follows up on a plot line from the wonderful King's Quest IV.
Kings Quest 7 was actually one of my most favourite games as a kid but having revisited these two, I don't feel like it has aged very well.
Kings Quest 7 has the big problem with bugs that destroy the awesome game (sound bugs and that infamous music bug where the midi sound "gets stuck" and starts to play even when other music plays, and the only solution is to shut off and turn on the game) and weird puzzles that I still have no idea how you would find it without a strategy guide (harp puzzle).
The eighth one, I haven't played much of yet but it really doesn't feel like a KQ game.
This is recommended ONLY for the big fans of the series.
Instead pick up the 4&5&6 combo on GOG instead.
This is just a big disappointment and, as said above, only for the big fans.
King's Quest's Peak and Downfall, together in one package.
I honestly can't say that this package is worth buying. I'm surprised that GOG actually handled the King's Quest games the way they did at all, especially when Sierra already packaged 1-7 together in a product titled "King's Quest Collection."
The reality is that while King's Quest 1 through 7 progressively advanced and became more interesting, detailed, and fun, that all stopped, reversed, and went backward at the speed of light with King's Quest 8.
I had bought KQ8 when it originally came out for the PC, and I hated every moment of it. I purchased it believing it was another quest similar to KQ6, my first introduction into the King's Quest franchise, or possibly even KQ5, which I enjoyed just as much. I hadn't played KQ7 at the time since I had only recently gotten a computer of my own, and before that had played the others on a friends'. I was sorely disappointed with the story, the graphics, the controls, everything that KQ8 "offered". I can understand completely why Sierra left it out of their original package of the first 7 games.
King's Quest 7 is the complete opposite. More of the same from the previous games, with a cartoony feel and a female protagonist. It adds a lot to the gameplay without taking away from the original feel of the KQ games. I do know many guys that used to play the King's Quest games that I was friends with at the time refused to pick up KQ7 because of the female lead, but I believe they were missing out. Sadly, I haven't actually finished the game myself, since I've only gotten hold of it more recently, but it is very much a KQ game, and very enjoyable.
Honestly, I'd like to see the King's Quest Collection appear here on GOG. I have purchased it elsewhere in the past, but due to the support that GOG gives to its customers, and the ongoing drive to keep the games working on newer and newer OS's, not to mention their DRM free stance, I'd gladly repurchase it here. This package, however, I couldn't recommend to anyone if only because KQ8 is not worth your time, and $9.99 for KQ7 is quite steep.
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