The Third of our Quest of Kings! Though there isn’t really a king in this game outside of a very brief cameo!
Playlist:
Part 1: Gwydion?!? You’re not King Graham!! What the hell?!?
I just noticed that Ken Williams is listed as the “Key Grip” in the credits. That’s pretty hilarious.
Part 2: But sometimes when you walk in…
Part 3: Boy, they just don’t make evil wizards like they used to.
Part 4 is a giant marathon Hogwarts final exam. Will Gwydion pass his O.W.L.’s? Or will he put dough in his eyes and get struck by lightning repeatedly?
Part 5 has us finally learning about our past and bidding Ffarewell to Llewdor. Also, some minor Patrick Stewart bashing. Sorry.
Part 6 is entirely pirate-ship-based. Also, two grown men start slowly losing their sanity at being stuck on a ship and resort to anime-bashing and Don Bluth-bashing. Cabin fever!
Part 7: Some beautiful alpine scenes, and the return of both our favorite square castle and unspellable gnome! Oh, also, we beat the game and meet the king, yadda yadda yadda.
Doodle Video:
Pixelated asteroids kill us. It’s two-player!
Video:
Pixelated cowboys shoot each other over Gold! GOOOOOOOOLD!
Videos:
Part 1
Part 2
Doodle (also from King’s Quest III):
Here’s what was really written in the spellbook from King’s Quest III.
This has at least one thing from each of our last three or four games. From the upper left, and following the path: the mountain from King’s Quest III (that inexplicably is drawn as a volcano), a scary tree from The Black Cauldron, the henchman from TBC, carnivorous mushrooms from Space Quest II, the Labion Terror Beast from SQII, the brain/plant/bubble thing from SQII with a gwythaint from TBC above it, the mooing sumo guy from Bruce Lee, the “hippo” sasquatch from SQII, the Vohaul Marrow-Matic from SQII, Medusa from KQIII, the ninja from Bruce Lee, a snakeskin from KQIII, the cat from KQIII, and Johnathan’s original Pathfinder character, Blazebeard Hammerstone, surveying it all. The tentacles are meant to represent the squid thing that we never actually encountered in SQII in the dark cave, and the pathway itself is from a similar one leading to the Horned King’s Castle in TBC.
*takes breath, passes out*
The Player and the Doodler 