In King’s Quest: Quest for the Crown, become Sir Graham, bravest of knights. Locate and return to King Edward the three great lost treasures of the Kingdom of Daventry in order to inherit the throne. Continue your adventures as (now) King Graham in King’s Quest II: Romancing the Throne as you travel...
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In King’s Quest: Quest for the Crown, become Sir Graham, bravest of knights. Locate and return to King Edward the three great lost treasures of the Kingdom of Daventry in order to inherit the throne. Continue your adventures as (now) King Graham in King’s Quest II: Romancing the Throne as you travel to the land of Kolyma in search of your bride. In King’s Quest III: To Heir is Human, you find yourself a servant of an evil wizard. As Gwydion, you must master spells and overcome numerous perils to escape from slavery and save a kingdom. As with all King’s Quest titles, you must be prepared. The journey will surely prove long and treacherous. You may choose among many paths open to you. The more clever and resourceful you prove yourself, the greater your reward.
Includes the original King’s Quest: Quest for the Crown, King’s Quest II: Romancing the Throne and King’s Quest III: To Heir is Human
Three intriguing, magical stories that will keep you coming back again and again
Witness the very beginnings of the graphic adventure game genre
Like another review said before me, these games are legendary, but you should get the VGA remakes from the fan company AGD Interactive. You can get those versions free from their website. These versions of the games have 256-color graphics, point and click interface, updated music, and full voice acting. They also changed the 2nd and 3rd games a lot and VASTLY improved them. They changed some story-line elements, added new puzzles, and completely eliminated all dead ends in the 2nd and 3rd games. They also added some new Easter eggs with references to other Sierra games and even other AGD Interactive products.
These games were revolutionary in their time, but nowadays don't play these old versions of the games. Get the free VGA remakes. THOSE are some of the greatest adventure games you'll ever play, official or unofficial.
Man, I loved playing these games when I was younger. Love the Sierra Quest pack.
King's Quest being one of my fav's. I made it a goal to beat the series.
The first and second games were difficult enough, but because of the known fairy tale references, I was able to play through.
The 3rd installment of the game I found was the toughest one. Sadly, I have not beaten it, but that won't mean that one day I will try again. As said from other reviews, the puzzles are pretty difficult, yet satisfying if completed.
I suggest this challenging first 3 installments to any game lovers.
1984, that's the year King's Quest 1 was originally released and here it is, still being sold over 20-years later.
For its time King's Quest was quite an innovative game, as it had animated, 16 colored graphics, multiple rooms and you could even move the character around so, that a tree or a house would hide it from the view. That all was in a word, revolutionary, when you add the level of interactivity the game has, which ain't that much in todays standards.
Let it be made fully clear: I like these games because I was a kid, when I played them the first time and they made an impact on me. There's a lot of nostalgia present, there's no denying that. The first 2 games are very slim with plot and they basically are more of a random item searching games than coherent narratives. 3rd game has the best plot of the bunch.
King's Quest 1 (*** / *****)
The story is simple enough: old king is dying and he wants Sir Graham to find three lost objects, which could bring wealth back to the kingdom of Daventry. These items are magical mirror, which can foresee the future, a chest full of gold and magical shield, that protects who ever fields it.
To fully complete the game, it actually helps, if you are familiar whit fairy tales.
There actually is an official Sierra remake of KQ1, which is basically the same game, but with better graphics. It still has the parser interface, but the difficulty level is toned down a bit.
King's Quest 2 (** / *****)
Easily the weakest of the first three. The plot involves now king Graham to travel in the country of Kolyma, which is a pretty empty place, if not counting dracula, church an antique store and red riding hoods granny's house. You mainly spend time walking, collecting things and then you get through the portal to the enchanted island to save the girl. There really isn't even as much of a narrative there's in the first game.
King's Quest 3(**** / *****)
To Heir is Human is story wise the best of the first three. You start the game as a slave to an evil wizard, of whose grasp you need to escape. The game has a lot of timed tasks and you are on the clock, when trying to locate the ingredients to make the spells you need to get rid of the wizard. The game also has a nice magic map, that helps you move around a bit faster. The item hunt has a lot more meaning this time.
General thoughts of all three
So, when you go out and star adventuring, you'll notice, you rummage through every hole and crevice in order to find the stuff you need in order to advance the game. This goes to all three. You can also miss an important item and end up stuck somewhere, where you can get out by only loading a saved game. You also die a lot, be that by a gaze of medusa, maddened mage or just by drowning in the river.
You give the commands with a text parser, so in many cases you'll spent more time in figuring the right commands (like ”take dagger” or ”cut rope with dagger”) and reading the notice, that the game doesn't understand you. I can't say anymore, if the commands are hard to figure, as I know the game almost by heart, but considering people, who are accustomed on modern mouse driven interfaces, this kind of verb hunting might cause gray hairs.
I've never thought that highly of the graphics in the first 3 King's Quest games. They look okay, a bit crude if you compare them to todays games, but I've never thought them as off putting. There also isn't that much of music or sound effects in the games, so it not an audiovisual feast.
But all in all, King's Quest 1 to 3 are a nice, nostalgic trip for those, who have first played them back in the 80's. To younger they might shed some light about the history of gaming. ”3D” adventures were, after all, a big hit after solely text based Interplay Zork games.
As a side note, you can find a fan made VGA remakes of all three games . Remakes of 1 and 3 are very accurate, but remake of KQ2 adds much plot and surroundings to the game.
There seems to difference of opinion going on between the people who fell in love with the original series and the younger ones who see better technical productions and have preferred the AGV version.
In favour of the remade originals:
If you were brought up on the original games, these releases are true in gameplay and graphics to the orignals. It will bring back that smile you had when you were 8 and you rushed home from school to see if you could get Sir Graham to get down the well or past the troll or ...whatever. At the same time the frustration of just getting him up stairs without falling and the annoyance that getting hold of that flaming eagle is still there is droves. There is all the good we loved and the bad we lived with.
But that's not how adventure games are now I think lots of us like the most recent offerings.
In favour of the new style:
Personally there are lots I like about the AGV remakes. A seriously interesting plot is being introduced that (I guess) wasn't in the capacity of the programming in the early-mid eighties. The remade KQ2 and KQ3 offer a plot that brings together and consolidates the whole series including the sadly incomplete attempt at Kings Quest 9.
The Kings Quest series should always hold much respect for being an initial example of how to develop adventure games but they have developed into something better.
It's worth scoring these individually:
KQ1: 4 stars
KQ2: 2.5 stars
KQ3: 5 stars
You may recall that after the strong plot of KQ1, KQ2 was immensely cliched; and a lot of the 'side quests' seemed relatively pointless. If you've replayed it and are a bit frustrated, I highly commend the remake of it by AGDInteractive. They remade KQ1 identically, but with better graphics; KQ2 on the other hand has a far more satisfying storyline, and makes use of a lot of the random items you can pick up in KQ2 which give you points, but are otherwise red herrings.
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