Just the other day I finally got around to playing the remaining chapters, (2-5). I had high hopes but, honestly my girlfriend and I were slightly disappointed. Every chapter after 2 can barely even be called an adventure game. Chapter 4 is just purely a logic puzzle game with some story around it... And it feels absolutely nothing like a Kings Quest game. 5 at least has a good chunk of classic adventure game but it breaks the immersion like CRAZY when they just leave in literal notes from the developers serving as clues. Having to go around and fing four keys, it just feels way too gamey, and doesn't really feel like something that could ever truly exist in a parallel universe where there's magic etc. I REALLY liked chapter one and I was so hopeful, but the remainder of the chapters just didn't deliver for me... Especially because the ending (SPOILERS AHEAD!!)

Is just very depressing... The whole fifth game is honestly. I would have preferred bittersweet over outright depressing. So who is going to carry the torch and start making more games in the style of Kings Quest and Laura Bow? I had high hopes for the odd gentlemen but this is just not it for me.

In the era where intellectual property and nostalgia are KING (no pun intended), I’m surprised nobody has tried to capitalize on the King’s Quest universe.

I know it’s not Marvel of Star Wars, but a built in Millenial/Gen X audience could still be interested. I don’t even necessarily mean a game remake. Get a couple writers to learn the lore and do some world building and pitch “Daventry” to some streamers. Maybe someone takes a flyer thinking it could be the next Game of Thrones.

Wishful thinking, I know.

But I assume Roberta Williams sold her rights to the franchise long ago, right?

Hi I just finished playing 2015 King's quest for the second time on xbox and I've been wondering where I can play the previous versions

I’m playing chapter 4 and you see manny come and kill Larry. As well as taking out Guard number 3 and 2. We see 3 after but I’m yet to see 2. Did 2 die?

I'm turning 40 this year and I became a father a few months ago.

I grew up on these games. I didn't understand them well, but I loved them.

What's the right age where my son will be able to enjoy these, and not feel the siren call of modern games?

Trying to give him an 80s/90s-esque childhood.

I used my last coin on an pie to olfie and know I don’t know what to do. I can’t buy the gardening weapon so I’m stuck. Please help

I wanted to get the game for my ol' Macintosh SE, so I went to (as I normally do) MyAbadonware, since it's been a few years, and likely they would've had it, but because of the GOG release, they don't let you download ANY version of the game from the site, including the original Macintosh release, so I need help finding where I can acquire it so I can, well, play it.

EDIT: I mean the very first game, I'm new to the series, so I always saw the first game be called "Quest for the Crown", but I mean the 1986 release, which later had a Mac port.

Achaka

I absolutely adored these games as a child growing up in the city. The comic nature, mix of mythology and fairy tale really appealed to me along with the wildly different geographies and climates the games would cover.

Eventually I got older and when I could I set off for the west coast and the Sierra Nevadas specifically where i engaged in all sorts of adventures finding woods and trails of my own that often reminded me of some of the games...even the very pixilated ones.

Anyhow I lucked out and eventually bought some hilled acres with a house in the PNW and have created my own small trail system. I was brainstorming ways to pay homage to these games I cherished in decorating some of the trails. I really do think i owe some amount of credit to them for instilling a sense of adventure in me. I tossed around putting up a "enter at your own risk" sign at the entrance, but I'd love some suggestions if anyone has any. Unfortunately I don't have any weeping willow playing a harp or boiling streams. Thanks!

I grew up watching my dad play King's Quest 5-7 on our Windows 95 PC. 5 and 6 were slightly confusing for my preschool brain to follow, but I adored King's Quest 7 and was obsessed with Rosella. A beautiful princess who wants to go on daring adventures, has to escape being married to a troll king, and has to save the world from a witch trying to set off a volcano? What's not to love? So to be fair I might be biased in my opinion that Rosella has always been by favorite member of King Graham's family.

As an adult, I downloaded the original King's Quest pack on Steam for when I want to play games that make me feel nostalgic. Command prompt games were before my time, so I struggle to play 1-4, but I've watched streams about how those games were supposed to be played. My respect for Rosella only grew more after I watched a streamer who had grown up playing The Perils of Rosella explain how Rosella was the first female protagonist of an adventure game, and seeing how much of that game was designed to let Rosella solve challenges in a girly way.

I played the first chapter of the 2016 game a few years ago, but never got around to buying the other chapters until about a month ago, so I know I'm several years late for this review, but I still want to rant.

First, what is that accent they gave Rosella? They have perfectly good audio reference from KQ 6 and 7 for how Alexander and Rosella are supposed to sound. Original Alexander was so gentle and polite in the way he spoke, the new game makes him sound kind of bratty, but maybe he learned to have better manners after being shrunk by an evil wizard. Rosella's accent is wild. She practically has a cockney accent. Original Rosella sounded like an American teenager. Most of the other people in Daventry in the 2016 game have an American accent. So someone explain to me how 2016 Rosella winds up with an accent that neither of her parents or anyone in Daventry has?

Chapter 4 made me so mad a Graham for the clear favoritism he was showing to Alexander. I know Graham felt guilty about the kidnapping, how he failed to rescue Alexander, and missed out on getting to raise Alexander. And I know chapter 4 is about learning to accept your children for who they are, even when they are different from you, and that's a great storyline on it's own, but OH MY GOD GRAHAM YOU STILL HAVE ANOTHER CHILD. A child who has probably felt like she came in second place to a missing brother her entire life. A child who clearly learned to have an interest in weapons, adventuring, and puzzle solving to impress her dad. A child who has the ability to keep up with her father with their road trip game. Graham is so obsessed with teaching Alexander how to be a proper heir, but Rosella already is the perfect heir!

Gwendolyn asks Graham why he never made Rosella his heir, and he says it's because she was always "so busy having adventures with Edgar, then they had Garth and moved back to Daventry to prepare him to be the heir." My expectation after playing the original games was always that Rosella and Edgar would have become the heirs to the Daventry throne after Alexander chose to stay in the Green Isles. I loved the idea of both thrones being passed down matrilineally.

But I guess Daventry had an addendum that said "the king may chose any worthy male as his successor." So no wonder Rosella got put on the back burner. She legally couldn't be Graham's heir. She's smart enough to understand the law, so of course she never focused on going after the crown herself. Once she had a son, that's when she moved back to Daventry. She couldn't be the heir to the throne, but her son could, so why not raise him to fulfill that role? (And I know they made Garth a brat who wouldn't be a good king at his current level of maturity.)

So Graham realized he's dying, looks around at his family, and goes "who here would be the best successor to the throne? I know, let's choose the eight year old who grew up on another continent because she likes listening to my stories and her dad was my favorite child." He changed to addendum so that a woman can inherit the throne for his eight year old grandchild, but he never changed the addendum in the 40ish years that he was a father to Rosella.

Any faults that Rosella and Garth have clearly stem from knowing that they are not the favorite. Both of them put in so much hard work to have the characteristics they thought would make Graham proud, and Graham never acknowledged their efforts. They are allowed to be bitter about that.

This game was also a decision based RPG, but the choice in who the heir is was never the player's decision. I would have loved to see a story where Graham was a better father, and Rosella and Alexander got along with one another, and where all of Graham's decedents could have made good leaders, but in different ways. Rosella could have represented the Brave choice, Garth could have been better written and been the Wise choice, and Gwendolyn the Compassionate choice. I'm so mad that I didn't get to choose the heir, and I'm so mad at how shitty the writers had Graham treat Rosella.

Hi everyone, has anyone else had the following issue? Or is it supposed to work this way? Spoilers ahead

!The nightingale returned for the first time with the ribbon. The narration says she also returned my ring but it's not in my inventory or on the ground and I can't get it from her any other way it seems. Do I need it for anything else? I haven't shown it to Jollo yet but maybe that's not strictly necessary?!<

Hoping to figure this out now before playing the whole game and finding out the hard way later :P Thanks!