Sierra Saturday: Let's Play King's Quest VII: Episode 1 - Discount Disney princess
11The NPCs move onward into the 7th in the King's Quest series, and the game many consider to be the last "real" game in the series. Princess Rosella makes a return to the protagonist position, and Queen Valanice makes her first and only main character appearance. In the beginning, we're treated to an impressive, animated opening sequence that paints Rosella like a Disney princess, lyrically lamenting the pressures on her to become a bride. She leaps into an enchanted pond when her mother suggests she might entertain the idea of an arranged marriage, and the adventure through a strange land begins!
Queen Valanice is dropped into a strange and unfamiliar desert when the two are separated within the magical maelstrom, and Valanice is tasked with finding a way to get some fresh water, and maybe return a mouse's glasses to him...
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King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride is the 7th King's Quest game, and the only one in the series to feature 2 playable characters: Queen Valanice, making her debut (and only) appearance as a main character, and Princess Rosella, returning after being relegated to window dressing after King's Quest IV. It tells the story of Princess Rosella, impetuously getting herself lost in the enchanted land of Eldritch when she sees a strange flying seahorse and feels the siren song of adventure. Queen Valanice, the protective mother, follows after her, but they are separated, and must struggle to reunite and escape back to Daventry.
KQ7 was remarkable in the Sierra Quest series as being on of their only hand-animated and hand-painted games, one of the earliest adopters of SVGA graphics. It was visually very different from its predecessors, feeling much more slapstick and animated - a product of its visual style, and was dismissed by many King's Quest fans for this. Nevertheless, it's very much a King's Quest game at heart, with all of the ludicrousness and violent random deaths one would expect - with the kind addition of an auto-retry system, allowing the player to not have to restore an earlier game if they die unexpectedly without saving.
The NPCs are playing the King's Quest Collection version from GOG.com with the "Timbres of Heaven" soundfont for background music.
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