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King's Quest VIII: Mask of Eternity (1998)

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This is a bug for King's Quest: Mask of Eternity for the PC. Absolutely no idea what's going on here, but somehow or other, the game got glitched when first attempting to open the treasure chest containing the Mask piece in this area.

I was playing around with clips (no console cheats or anything, though, not that it should make a difference here, I think), and after doing one to clip through the back wall in the area with the chest, the thing suddenly disappeared on me when I clicked to open it. Things only get stranger from there, and as it turns out, I was unable to even leave this area, as every time I pulled out or put away my weapon, it'd re-activate the chest opening sequence, for some reason. So, while it did result in getting duplicates of this Mask piece, I don't know what effects it might've had if I could've continued to the Frozen Reaches (though I suppose I could use a console cheat to play around with that sometime).

EDIT: I still don't really understand what's happening, but I've confirmed this weirdness is related to that movement stutter just as I initially opened the chest (but seems you can't click too early, and that 3rd person view may also be needed). The weapon thing is probably a side-effect of Connor not pulling out his weapon in this instance, when he normally should for this cutscene.

EDIT 2: Tried reproducing this again, and somehow didn't get the endless loop, but I still got the glitched cutscene, and one duplicate of the Mask piece (which unfortunately doesn't seem to work for skipping the Frozen Reaches Mask piece - entering Paradise Lost still seems to check for both individual pieces in the Barren Region and Frozen Reaches). The only thing that I can think of that I did differently was to save the game near the chest in first person view, then I did the glitch (switching over to 3rd person view - seems necessary for the glitched cutscene). As I said, it only re-activated the cutscene once, but after that the chest was where it should be, and the anomaly had passed, so I was then able to exit the area.

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