These three games are as surefire a 5 star as I'd give to anything, and not just for King's Quest VI. The reputation of King's Quest VI is well-deserved, and enough has been said about it over the past years. The game simply does not have any obvious flaws. King's Quest V seems to be a love it or hate it type game, I'm on the "love it" side. The most beautiful graphics of the series with it fantastic variety of locations and probably the most exciting King's Quest story. Who can resist such a classic journey through forests, deserts, snowy peaks, islands and seas, to a spectacular wizard showdown in a creepy fortress? Not I! One of my favorite games ever. King's Quest IV is perhaps the most underrated of the series. I'm one who maintains that the end of the parser era (and this collection is representative of that shift in adventure gaming) did mean a loss to some of the "adventure" feel. There's a freedom in being able to type almost anything and still coming up with funny responses you hadn't seen before that doesn't exist with simple point and click interfaces. There are advantages to point and click yes, but it still felt like something of a "dumbing down" for some of us hard core adventurers. This game also contains what I consider one of the all time classic adventure game sequences, the grave digging at midnight. All in all, as easy a 5 star rating as there is.
