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Tuesday - June 16, 2015
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Saturday - October 15, 2016

King's Quest - Episode 5 Release: October 25

by Hiddenx, 09:57

The final episode of King's Quest will be released on October 25:

The finale of King's Quest - Chapter 5: The Good Knight will release on Oct. 25th.

Retail version will release same day!

Retail is Xbox One, PS4 and Xbox 360

Wednesday - September 28, 2016

King's Quest - Episode 4 released

by Hiddenx, 21:56

Episode 4 of King's Quest is out now:

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In his latest adventure, King Graham recounts the time he had to rescue Prince Alexander from Queen Icebella's Frozen Castle. Available now!

 

Friday - December 25, 2015

King's Quest - Rubble Without A Cause Review

by Aubrielle, 03:32

Pixel Dynamo has reviewed King's Quest: Rubble Without A Cause, giving it a 7.8.  Very minor spoilers ahead.

Rubble Without a Cause continues The Odd Gentlemen’s King’s Quest on the right path, despite its brevity at roughly four hours playtime and 180º flip-flop in tone at the end leaving it on a bit of a sour note. Chapter 2 experiments rather nicely with the type of puzzle solving it throws at the player, specifically since it’s a survival type theme that requires strategy as an element of finding a puzzle’s solution.

Unfortunately, Rubble Without a Cause does feel like an interlude when placed on its own. The goblin prison isn’t a terribly expansive place, and while the puzzles are neat and fun to solve, it almost begins to feel claustrophobic. When we finally escape the prison it seems like the episode should finally be building up and moving to a second half, but of course there’s nothing left to play. A Knight to Remember gave us the story progression through puzzles, Rubble Without a Cause gives us puzzles and a few hints at the overlying plot.

More information.

Source: Pixel Dynamo

Wednesday - December 16, 2015

King's Quest - Chapter 2 Now Available

by Aubrielle, 02:24

King's Quest: Chapter 2 - Rubble Without A Cause is now available on Steam, for those that already own Chapter 1.

More information.

Source: Steam

Sunday - August 02, 2015

King's Quest - Review @ IGN

by Hiddenx, 08:17

Leif Johnson (IGN) has reviewed King's Quest: A Knight to Remember:

Long Live the King

King's Quest: A Knight to Remember is a beautiful experiment in resurrecting the conventions of gaming’s past and dressing them up in the lush graphics available today. For the most part, it works, with this, the first of five episodes, telling a lighthearted fantasy story around simple action and rewarding puzzles about knights and dragons. The middle of its roughly six hours can drag a bit as you hunt down the items you need to progress, but even those are full of detailed art and enthusiastic performances.

As with the classic King’s Quest game from 1984, a Knight to Remember is the story of the likeable but overly excitable Graham, who's working his way toward being a knight (and eventually king). But this new version is a quality reboot that tells an all-new story of Graham’s attempts to outwit four other candidates for an open knight position, and it’s told capably enough that it should be appealing to newcomers as well as veterans. The caveat to that is that there’s no tutorial or even a quest list to introduce new players to the conventions of this old-school-style adventure and guide you through it, which means you’ll have to be comfortable figuring things out on your own. [...]

 

The Verdict

Old-school adventure game mechanics make a great return to form in King's Quest: A Knight to Remember. This tale is funny, beautiful, and challenging enough to make up for a few plodding quests and frequent load screens, and it maintains its personality from start to finish, sprinkling the first episode of its story with happy highs and tragic lows.

Final Score: 8/10 Great

Full of humor, heart, and beauty, King's Quest is a admirable revival of classic adventure games.

+ Beautiful artwork
+ Excellent voice acting
+ Simple, rewarding puzzles
Midgame drags a bit
Unskippable cutscenes

 

Thursday - July 30, 2015

King's Quest - Review @ The Escapist

by Hiddenx, 07:59

The first chapter of the new King's Quest Adventure was released earlier this week.
The Escapist has reviewed A Knight to Remember:

King's Quest Review - A New Knight of Adventure

The definition of "adventure game" has changed since the days of the original King's Quest. What used to be a genre about banging your head against puzzles and dying repeatedly, has evolved into something more cinematic after the rise to popularity of Telltale projects such as The Walking Dead. It would have been easy for The Odd Gentlemen to make their revival, King's Quest: A Knight to Remember, into a Telltale clone with a focus on dialogue choice and we would have liked it. Instead, they decided to go one step further and attempt to make it feel like an older Sierra game, while still adhering to the modern adventure game formula. For better and worse, this gives King's Quest: A Knight to Remember a unique identity in a genre whose games tend to feel like carbon copies of one another.

King's Quest tells the story of, well, King's Quest, but in a new way. King Graham is now old and withered, nearing the end of his life. He spends most of his days in bed, telling his stories of adventure to anyone who will listen. His favorite audience is his granddaughter Gwendolyn, a rambunctious young scamp who has inherited his love of adventure.

This is the frame for the plot, a Big Fish story when your actions make up the story itself. Episode 1 begins far before Graham was even a knight, much less a king, and by the time episode 5 ends, the events of all prior King's Quest games will have transpired and we will have rejoined Graham and Gwendolyn in the present day.

What's unique about this format is that there is not one, but three plots running concurrently. The first is the story that is being told, the events of the past that you, the player, get to influence as a young Graham. The second, is Graham and Gwendolyn's narration over the story, which doesn't always line up with the actual events that transpire. Graham loves to embellish his deeds telling Gwendolyn of what a fearless knight he was when in actuality he was tripping over his own two feet and acting as comic relief. The third, is what happens to Gwendolyn after the stories are told. She learns something from every tale and we get to see her apply this knowledge to conflicts she faces in her day to day life. There's something heartwarming and magical about watching the younger generation learn from the advice of the older generation. It's almost symbolic of how this game came to be, with older King's Quest titles informing the design of this new one, and you getting to play the result.

Gameplay is separated into three distinct parts, adventuring, conversing, and quick-time events. While adventuring, you will explore Daventry and solve puzzles, and while conversing, you will learn important information, meet new allies, and make choices that will alter the narrative. When there's a quick time event you are... pressing buttons to not die. Not everything can be innovative.

King's Quest sets itself apart from other modern adventure games by including these gameplay elements in different ratios to what you might expect. While most of a Telltale-style adventure game is spent conversing, you spend most of King's Quest adventuring. There's always a new puzzle to solve or place to go, and it makes the game feel very active and interactive.

It doesn't feel like you are just watching a movie and making a choice every so often. In fact, you frequently get to make choices outside of dialogue. Many puzzles have multiple solutions, and how you solve them is as important as what you say afterward. Heck, there are even quicktime events that you can complete different ways!

Tuesday - July 28, 2015

King's Quest - First Chapter Released

by Hiddenx, 22:08

Chapter 1: A Knight to Remember was released today:

An aging King Graham reflects on a life of adventure with his granddaughter, Gwendolyn, taking players back to his teen years and his quest to become a knight of Daventry in King Edward’s royal guard. Discover a wondrous world full of whimsical characters, charming puzzles and perilous dangers in this fun and enchanting coming of age story.

Wednesday - July 01, 2015

King's Quest - New Trailer & Release Date

by Hiddenx, 06:54

Sierra has announced the release date for the first chapter of the new five-part Kings Quest series. The first part is called Kings Quest: A Knight to Remember:

The First Quest Begins July 28th!

King’s Quest is a collection of five different chapter releases, each focusing on an untold tale in Graham’s past. In each chapter, an aging King Graham reflects on his life of adventure with his granddaughter, Gwendolyn, while players are transported back to influence first-hand the decisions and events that shaped a kingdom. Embark on an extraordinary journey across the world of Daventry.

New Trailer:

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Tuesday - June 16, 2015

King's Quest - New Trailer

by Hiddenx, 22:45

Adventure or RPG? - who cares - here's a new trailer for the new King's Quest game:

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King’s Quest is a five-chapter story arc. As an aging King Graham reflects on a life of heroism with his granddaughter, Gwendolyn, players are transported back to experience firsthand the untold tales that shaped a kingdom. In the first chapter, A Knight to Remember, an aging King Graham reflects on his journey to become a knight in King Edward’s court. #KingsQuest For more information, please visit www.sierra.com.

Saturday - May 30, 2015

King's Quest - Preview @ DigitalSpy

by Hiddenx, 08:45

Matthew Reynolds (Digital Spy) has written a preview for the upcoming episodic adventure King's Quest: How player choice is at the heart of the new King's Quest.

A snippet:

King's Quest - a new entry in the long-absent Sierra adventure game series - is set to revolve around a unique frame narrative that's new to the series.

The episodic game will look back at the adventures of Graham - one of the core characters of the series - who is now an old King sharing stories of his past to his granddaughter, Gwendolyn.

Reliving his past adventures while narrated in the present, the choices you make will not only change his legacy and the way he's remembered, but also the way Gwendolyn will solve problems she faces herself.

"It's a similar story framing to the Princess Bride or the movie Big Fish," creative director Matt Korba told Digital Spy.

"Because it's a game, we're actually able to have choices inside of these stories, and our choices really help to shape what type of story he's telling his granddaughter - whether it's a tale of bravery for a tale of compassion or a tale of wisdom, it's completely up to the player and the choices that they make within the game.

"Your decisions, and the story that you tell, help shape a very impressionable young Gwendolyn," he continued. "Depending on the choices that you make in the game, she'll listen to your advice and solve her problems in a different and unique way.

Information about

King's Quest: Your Legacy Awaits

Developer: The Odd Gentlemen

SP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: Non-RPG
Combat: None
Play-time: 20-40 hours
Voice-acting: Unknown

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· Platform: PC
· Released: 2015-07-28
· Publisher: Sierra Entertainment