The Legend of Kyrandia (Book One)

One of the most fabulous adventure game ever ! Hope that GOG will release Kyrandia 2 & 3 !! And I reeaally hope they'll release another great westwood studio game : DUNE 2 !! ;) THANKS GOG !!

First this adventure game is excellent! It has lots of humor and you can tell a lot of love went into the story and creation of the entire package. Having said that, it is true that vital items can be destoyed without your knowledge and cause serious backtracking or reloading of previous saves to complete. My other complaint...why not the CD TALKING version of this?! I haven't downloaded this myself as I own all three of the games and have them working in DOSbox already, but I'm pretty sure that at only 53mb this isn't the full speech version of the game?

The Legend of Kyrandia I was the first PC game I ever bought for myself. I played it every spare chance I got with my mom (we would have NEVER gotten out of the Fireberry Caves without her handy graph paper!) This game has all that humor that Westwood is known for, and graphics and music that even now is seriously beautiful. GoG i am SO thrilled youve introduced this title- I cant WAIT for Hand of Fate and Malcolm's Revenge!

Make a save game before you fly to the castle at the end. Its possible to mess up and make the game un winable. If you must eat an apple, only consume ONE. An ok game that has somewhat challenging puzzles that at times dont even give you a hint. Always save and make save copies to avoid back tracking. A very short game for the $8. I would say to definitely play it though if you plan to play 1 and 2 which are far better games. This game was kind of a test run for the company I would say. The art is enjoyable and fun to look at but they recycle scenes which can be visually unappealing while exploring one area to the next.

This game is one of the best Adventure games I've played. Most games in the genre I've played have really stupid/absurd puzzles that you could never reasonably expect a person to figure out, but this game mostly didn't have that problem with a couple exceptions. One big problem with this game is navigating. There's no in-game map and there are certain parts of the game, a cave specifically, where you pretty much have to draw a map or look one up. If you like doing that sort of thing, that's cool, but other than getting confused about where to go and where you've been it can get extremely tedious to backtrack to get needed items or to find your way around. There is a lot of wasted time spent backtracking and walking through areas with nothing really in them. This could easily be fixed with a map that would allow the player to fast-travel to previous areas or at least a function where you can skip watching the character walk across screens to locations you've already been (like in Monkey Island). This biggest flaw with this game that I know of is that there are two ways that you can screw yourself over making the game unbeatable. The first one, which is what made me have to stop playing for now, is to do with apples. There are 2 or 3 apples in the entire game and you HAVE to have one for a part of the game later on. If you play this, MAKE SURE you keep at least one apple (and not just the core). The other one, which I've only read of, is that when you come to an ocean/beach with a couple of Pegasus statues, if you proceed without the necessary items (I'd advice just looking them up once you think you have all of them just to make sure) you can get stuck in the next area with no passage back. I wish I had more room to discuss everything, but those were important to mention to anyone playing it for the first time. In my opinion, this game has great voice-acting, very funny dialogue, great music, beautiful art, and mostly decent gameplay. I recommend picking it up.