"kjorteo would probably love it." Maybe if it were mobile! I can tell just from these screenshots that they put so much effort to into drawing the thing that it's basically a matte painting.
As it stands, I will chalk the poor thing up to being another example of the series' rather confusing mixed messages on violence toward the antagonists. The Daventry royal family isn't quite as well-known for having a no-killing rule as, say, Batman, but it's at least something they try not to do. Even in the very first game, puzzles had alternate solutions and you'd be awarded more points for finding the least fatal one. Yet even knowing that, it wasn't until around King's Quest VII that they finally stopped pulling straight-up murder or attempted murder on the endbosses. And this game confuses me most of all in that regard, because Alexander does non-lethally dispatch Manannan (and even refuses to kick him when he's down!) but then has no problem slaying the dragon
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Loved this!!!spiveylooJanuary 23 2017, 15:03:59 UTC
I so enjoyed this! I was so sad to see kjorteo's Laura Bow posts come to an end but was glad to see links to other LPs. :) I thought of these posts when someone sent me this. So glad to see other people who were clearly traumatized at a tender age from watching their PCs tumble from ridiculous heights despite our best efforts to keep them on the path. And more than once, I accidentally saved the game as they started falling and had to go back like 30 minutes of gameplay, usually the thirty minutes I disliked the most (read: that cave troll in KQ4). Anyway, again, really enjoyed this and hope to see more. And now I give you: Stair Quest. http://kotaku.com/80s-gaming-nightmare-returns-to-haunt-us-all-1791491088
Re: Loved this!!!davidnJanuary 24 2017, 20:43:15 UTC
Thank you so much! Kjorteo's adventure through Laura Bow was always a highlight for me as well and it's great to know you enjoyed this one on his recommendation :)
I actually never really played Sierra games until much later in life, discovering them around the early 2000s when I was at university and had unfettered access to a broadband connection and a ton of foreign "abandonware" sites. Having played Lucasarts adventures, the Sierra approach to allowing the user to die or dead-end themselves came as a large shock - I can't believe they allowed you to save the game while falling!
Stair Quest is great - I knew about it due to appearing on one of the authors' podcasts a while ago... it's strange that it's clearly an exaggeration while still being just exactly what King's Quest 3 was like.
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As it stands, I will chalk the poor thing up to being another example of the series' rather confusing mixed messages on violence toward the antagonists. The Daventry royal family isn't quite as well-known for having a no-killing rule as, say, Batman, but it's at least something they try not to do. Even in the very first game, puzzles had alternate solutions and you'd be awarded more points for finding the least fatal one. Yet even knowing that, it wasn't until around King's Quest VII that they finally stopped pulling straight-up murder or attempted murder on the endbosses. And this game confuses me most of all in that regard, because Alexander does non-lethally dispatch Manannan (and even refuses to kick him when he's down!) but then has no problem slaying the dragon ( ... )
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I thought of these posts when someone sent me this. So glad to see other people who were clearly traumatized at a tender age from watching their PCs tumble from ridiculous heights despite our best efforts to keep them on the path. And more than once, I accidentally saved the game as they started falling and had to go back like 30 minutes of gameplay, usually the thirty minutes I disliked the most (read: that cave troll in KQ4).
Anyway, again, really enjoyed this and hope to see more. And now I give you: Stair Quest. http://kotaku.com/80s-gaming-nightmare-returns-to-haunt-us-all-1791491088
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I actually never really played Sierra games until much later in life, discovering them around the early 2000s when I was at university and had unfettered access to a broadband connection and a ton of foreign "abandonware" sites. Having played Lucasarts adventures, the Sierra approach to allowing the user to die or dead-end themselves came as a large shock - I can't believe they allowed you to save the game while falling!
Stair Quest is great - I knew about it due to appearing on one of the authors' podcasts a while ago... it's strange that it's clearly an exaggeration while still being just exactly what King's Quest 3 was like.
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