Let's Play the First Quest: King's Quest

Sir Graham is a pacifist though! Bizarro Graham might try those options though...



*poof* the rat disappears as do some of Graham's points, NOOOOO!

I always thought that the cheese was magical and that was why the rat disappeared, which didn't make much sense considering Graham can eat it at any point and nothing happens to him... Anyway Graham moves through the door:



Quick Graham! Do something! Anything!



uh, ok...



um, okaayyy...

After the guards poof themselves Graham moves forward



Okay, now this is just ridiculous... The power of music saved the day? That never happens! But, Sir Graham isn't going to complain. He picks up the King's scepter (for no other reason than getting points I guess...) and then scoops up the shield:



and follows after the King to see if he can find a way out of this hole:



Graham prides himself on his slim figure but that hole looks way too small (ZING!)

Bribing the rat works? Holy crap. You lose points for doing it, but it's nifty how some of these puzzles have alternate solutions.

Sometimes being a pacifist sucks:

Come on big guy why don't we hug?



Sissy... even Roger Wilco can take on a giant rat... and live.

DEATH COUNT 13

you can also bribe the troll on the bridge...

Sir Graham is a lover of classical literature and so is familiar with the works of Lewis Carroll and so when presented with a tiny door and fungus he knows just what to do:



With all three treasures in his pan-dimensional pockets (think Drywall from SCUD) Sir Graham hurries back to the castle:



Get to the point Graham!

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I am shocked! The King just up and died! How convenient. No need to actually write him out of the story now!

And with that Sir Graham became King Graham, Daventry's benevolent ruler who is sure to guide them peacefully through the years...

I wonder if his alter-ego ever managed to win the crown?

Next time: Violent answers to simple questions with BG!

Good thing Graham had that subliminal message in his song for the Leprechauns to poof off and poison the king!

So..... the king just dies, straightaway, everyone just starts sucking up to Graham before the body's even released its breath? What a disconnected populace.

Well, it's still slightly better than the original ending, which I won't spoil in case Falselogic wanted to show some comparison shots for differences or anything.

Well, yeah. Have you not seen the carnage that Graham has wrought on the realm?

So what's next on the Sierra hit list? I don't think we've done Police Quest yet....

I love how totally nonchalant everyone is about the king collapsing and dying right in front of everyone just as Graham shows up.

Well, at least there is an "everyone" in that version.

After embedding a stone in the skull of a giant BG made his way down to the earth and wandered around the countryside until a giant angry condor picked him up and dropped him off near a hole. Before entering the hole BG did some reconnaissance whereon he found a mushroom which he collected and then headed into the hole. Underground he encountered a giant rat. Repeated attempts to kill the rat failed:







Hmm... Unable to slaughter the giant rat, BG thinks of the next best thing and tries to sneak around the rat:



After that failed and BG pulled himself back together he tries the next next best thing and bribes the stinking rodent:



With the rat out of the way BG heads through the door:



"Yes, Yes! Cower before me tiny ugly people! Bizarro Graham rules you!" After returning the to castle Graham used a dagger he found and the magical shield to slaughter all its inhabitants. Afterwards, he installed himself as King and used the unending coins from the chest to buy an army of mercenaries which he used to conquer neighboring kingdoms plunging Bizarro Daventry into centuries of bloody war.

THE END

... I suspect a certain wizard would inevitably bring Bizarro Graham's reign to an end.

It's like Earth 2.

You'll have to excuse Graham's camera it's fairly lo-tech

Graham and his pal the goat take out the troll:


the gnome with the inexplicable name:


enjoying the underwater sights of Daventry:


Dragons!


The Witches cottage:


Golden Egg:


flying:


rats:


Little People:


Beanstalk:


Giant:


Sleeping Giant:


Stairway to Heaven:

Rewards:



Other neat things about the AGI KQ1:

You can get the treasures in any order! This is good because you can get the shield first and once you do:



None of the baddies can touch you and they are all over the place!

if you aren't close enough and lined up with the dragon both the dagger and water can miss. The dead dragon looks cooler here too:





The witch flies around picks you up and dumps you in her house. Where you can't escape. Also, I don't think she can be killed in her house either.

And unless you can think of something I missed that is it! Thanks for joining me for this Let's Play of King's Quest 1 and stay tuned for the next King's Quest game: Romancing the Throne.

The only thing I remember about Romancing the Throne is this awful thorn maze. I haven't played the game in over a decade, but from what I remember there was absolutely no way to tell when Graham would die in that maze. It was save/die/restart of the worst kind.

There is an easy way to get through the maze though without dying!

STAY TUNED!

Yep, old graphics giant looks ridiculous. And so does Graham just taking the throne after King Edward does a dance* and falls over dead. And Graham goes right for the throne! What a jerkass. =P

And I'm almost certain you missed the falling down the well death during the LP.....And if I recall correctly, in the Ye Olde version there's also a way you can die in the woodcutter's cabin as well.

*More obvious in video.

The woodcutter's floor had gaping holes in it, so yeah you could die there. Do you mean falling down the well from the surface, right? I'll look into it.

That's a loser dragon! I could kill that dragon! I wouldn't even need the knife!

Indeed I did and here it is for your viewing pleasure:





Oh, Graham...

So with that I think I'm done with KQ1, unless you Tyrants can think of something else for me to do. With the queue impacted and shutdown. KQ2 won't be starting up until February, unless something opens up on January.

Until then remember to save and save often!

I'd forgotten how hideous the original version was. But then again, it still looks WORLDS better than the old Hugo series. For those of you who don't know what that is, consider yourself fortunate.

^They're super charming, Sky Render from 2010!

I've updated the images in this LP so it can be read again. Sir Graham your adventures haven't ended here!