Game:

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

Duration: 3:04:47

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00:00 Starting Soon ("Ataraxia" by Aaron Hodges-Boyle)
06:02 Beginning
10:30 Back in Daventry
1:01:30 Into Castle Daventry
1:33:00 Into the Dimension of Death!
2:01:30 An Audience with the King... of Death!
2:22:00 Inwardly Beautiful, Outwardly Sexy

Connor's Quest continues as I'm forced to return to Daventry to seek some more items, a quest that takes me all the way to King Graham's throne room and obliges me to once again realize that Connor can solve many problems by hitting them with an axe.

Then, it's on to the Dimension of Death, where the game's surprisingly charming blend of low-key puzzle-solving and low-key action-rpg combat continues to make me wonder if this game would have such a bad reputation if it hadn't been called King's Quest.

Then again... would I even be playing this today if it wasn't called King's Quest? You can see the publisher's dilemma here.

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*Intro Song*: "Ataraxia" by Aaron Hodges-Boyle. Aaron has an extensive catalog of "video game music to study or fall asleep to" on his Bandcamp page: https://aaronhodges-boyle.bandcamp.com/

This playthrough was originally broadcast live on Twitch, beginning April 6, 2024, at https://www.twitch.tv/58dreamstreet

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