The Legend of Kyrandia (PC) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
858A playthrough of Westwood's 1993 CD "talkie" version of the graphic adventure, Fables and Fiends: The Legend of Kyrandia, for PCs running Dos.
By the early 1990s, Westwood was really beginning to hit their stride. A number of their earlier titles went somewhat ignored (and remain that way now), but around 1990 people started to take notice. Between their AD&D titles (especially the successful Eye of the Beholder games) and Dune II, they had people wondering just what would come next.
Fables and Fields: The Legend of Kyrandia certainly didn't disappoint. While it might not have been the best adventure game ever, the graphics looked fantastic for VGA circa 1992, easily rivaling Sierra and LucasArts titles at the time, and the soundtrack sounded great, no matter what sound card you were relying on to synthesize it. The puzzles (generally) made sense and were logical - as long as you ignore that horrendous cave section - and it put a darker spin on the fantasy genre than King's Quest had attempted yet.
This is the first of the trilogy, and as such, despite being quite a good game it is probably the weakest game of the three. It made for some addictive pixel hunting back in the early 90s, and it also helped further lay the foundation for later Westwood classics that were yet to be thought of (Lion King and Command & Conquer, anybody?). Well, at least until EA bought and utterly destroyed the company.
The CD upgrade was a pretty good one. Not much changed of the game itself, but the voice acting was surprisingly good for the time
- just compare it to King's Quest V and you'll see what I mean.
Anyways, this one is pretty classic, and there a lot of people who fondly remember this one at the advent of the "multimedia PC" era, and so I wanted to upload my playthrough of it.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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