Review of King's Quest

Great start of a new series of quests that will appreciate the fans of the genre, and those for whom the word Sierra - an empty phrase

The first game of the series King's Quest was released in 1984 and marked the beginning of a whole family of games with similar names - Space Quest, Police Quest, Quest for Glory. Last game was released in 1998, and since all attempts to revive the series were unsuccessful. But just a couple of weeks ago on Steam out the first chapter of the new King's Quest, and it's almost the best thing that happened to the genre this year.
Before us is a classic quest to dialogue and inventory dimensionless where flick of the wrist hides everything that is not nailed down, and the puzzles in the spirit of "to make a raft, we need wood, an ax and a rope," only occasionally diluted QTE and simple action game. Combine items in your inventory you can not, but you can, once in a dead end, to apply the usual in such cases tactic: attempting to use at each facility in the county all the items from the inventory. However, it is difficult to be at an impasse: puzzles are quite logical, and the characters clearly explain what they need.

Magic Mirror has played in the history of the kingdom an important role - but what is happening is quite clear, and those who do not know by heart the canon

The new King's Quest - not the continuation of a cycle, not a remake, not an offshoot: rather, it is a free paraphrase. During the time of its original series protagonist Graham managed to go from a beardless youngster to gray-haired patriarch. In the game the old Graham, voiced by Christopher Lloyd (Doc Brown from "Back to the Future") tells his granddaughter Gwendolyn about adventures that he happened to go through between games of the original series.
The first chapter of the story is about the beginning of his journey - a day when quite a boy he came to the kingdom of Daventry, to become a knight. Choosing the menu has not released the chapter we see as a reflection of the hero in a magic mirror changes, turning first to the strong man, and then in the venerable old man - a clear hint that the game in the final form will cover the whole of his long and rich life of the exploits.

Graham tells her granddaughter the truth. Well, almost all
The whole game King of Herbs granddaughter stories about his youth, and then by deceiving and poking fun at himself and her, and she did not remain in debt, always ready to be sarcastic response. Those who personally went with Graham path of glory in the early parts of the game, to share his nostalgia for bygone days, well, younger players will be happy with her granddaughter in the narrator eagerly shout: "Less talk about boring cave! More about dragons! "

All this reminds one hand, cult film-fairy tale "The Princess Bride" and the other - the game Call of Juarez: The Gunslinger, where the hero just overs poured about his exploits, did not hesitate to argue with the audience and cancel own death, muttering "no, wait, it was not so." In King's Quest plenty of ways to die - you can die in a tragic fire dragon, but you can fall prey to hundreds of angry squirrels. But unlike the old games, where death caused endless desire to break the keyboard are pulls them even run into - just to listen to the good-natured squabble with Gwendolyn Graham.

The interiors of the castle are decorated with tapestries, reproducing the cover of the early games in the series
A common set of puzzles and action needed to address them, is fixed: to finish the game, you will need to perform all of them. But you can do them in a different order, and this process is full of nuances that affect the important thing is, what lesson Gwendolyn extract from your story. When you need assistance, to whom you refer in the first place: to the brave lady-smith, a good-natured baker or a couple of wise older wizards? Borrowing without asking a thing from the store, you leave money on the table? Faced with aggressive goblins, kill them there, or just to disarm?
Whatever you did, basically the story remains the same, but the emphasis will be placed differently. When it's the turn of young trainees to act, it will behave like my grandfather taught. The final movie shows that lesson, no matter what it was, was not in vain - and in fact there is still four stories.

The first chapter is traversed for 6-7 hours (which a lot of games to be released in the format of the series), the date of release of the second did not even announced - and the whole story, the developers promise to release before the end of next year. But away from the kingdom of Daventry, this fairy tale come to life, where young knight becomes king, do not want to. Finish the game, you will surely start to her first: to find alternative solutions, select other cues, to give another example of a granddaughter and see what happens. "I have not been here for many years. Now, here everything was not as I remembered - and not too much has changed, "- says the protagonist. Those who remember the first King's Quest, totally agree.