Sierra Saturday: Let's Play King's Quest VII: Episode 8 - Swamp gas fever dream

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Published on July 1, 2017 11:00:04 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmiDaefOMG4

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King's Quest VII (1994)

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Let's Play

Duration: 15:54

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As the world of Etheria goes further and further off the rails, the NPCs start to question the reality beyond the screen - whether in fact Valanice and Rosella were just victim to an overabundance of swamp gas, and the ridiculousness of Part VII is just a hallucination while the two lay helpless in some dark corner of Daventry. In the nightmare world, Valanice makes her way into a village that puts even the Isle of Wonder from King's Quest VI to shame with its insanity, and the NPCs spend some time helping out a distraught bull in a china shop.

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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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