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King's Quest VII: Princeless Bride

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I'm still working on this game, but I really love this. The graphics are great, for an earlier game, and the plot line is wonderful. This is a great fit into the earlier King's Quest series, and finally, you get to play the female character.

This is much more mentally challenging than the previous games, and certain parts do seem almost impossible, but with a lot of work, you can get by. As always, humor is incorporated everywhere, along with interesting worlds, and in a few parts, some extremely creepy characters. One part feels very "nightmare before christmas".

I really do recommend this as a non-violent, thinking game for kids. It's proof that you don't have to shoot up a bunch of characters to have a good game time!

This may not be a new jazzy 3D computer game, but I can honestly say it was my favorite computer game ever - the entire King's Quest series is fabulous. It's interesting, challenging adventure puzzles, a great story line, and the animation is very nice even for the time.

I grew up on King's Quest. My parents were playing King's Quest I when I was in the womb, and every time a new King's Quest came out they would play it. When I was very little, it was exciting to watch them play the games. As I got older, I would be very eager to help them solve some of the puzzles. By the time King's Quest VII came out, I could practically play on my own and it was such an amazing experience to explore the lands, meet characters, and solve problems with all of the items in your inventory. I learned a lot about mythology and fairy tale lore. I played through this game multiple times. Fifteen years later, I STILL think about this game. Somewhat often. I remember with nostalgia my favorite levels, favorite characters, favorite scenes. This game was so clever and contained a lot of humor. The graphics were bright and fun. I will always think back fondly on this game.

This game is colorful, fun, just challenging enough, and ver creative. One of my favorite games ever. However, after not having played the game in years, I decided to purchase and play it again. It did not work on my desktop, which runs on XP, or my laptop, which has vista. I have no idea how you're upposed to make it work. I googled it and the only solutions were complex and did not work Be catious on buying this unless you have an old operating system.

The Kings Quest Series in general is amazing and captivating, but Kings Quest 7 stands out from the rest of the series for many reasons. KQ7 was the first game to change characters from chapter to chapter and has two primary female roles. Along with its amazing soundtrack and the Disney style animations, Kings Quest 7 is the ultimate adventure game, and the best game of its time. Sierra did it again!!

When this game hit the market ten years ago, I purchased it straight away. I found it rather challenging, at times downright frustrating. As I progressed (and the years did too), the game became easier to play. After a recent dust off, I popped it into my drive and played again. It's still a lot of fun, but I can see where Sierra was showing signs of forgetfulness and rushed production.

The imagery is first rate, rivalling Disney, and the animation as well as can be expected from Sierra. The music is the most majestic and beautiful ever written for the series, though at times it tends to be overpowering the dialogue. The voices are extremely good - a great improvement from the previous games where the timing was off or the voices were bad - but I would have liked to hear them *over* the music, rather than have to compete for their balance. The sound levels, in many places, are WAY off and are the only technical thing I find wrong with this set.

The "smart cursor" was a genuis idea, but it comes too late in the series to be of much more use. On the one hand, it makes some things too easy. On the other, one has to move the mouse all about to find what you need to do next.

A major problem I suffered with the story is its incredible convenience. All of the goings on are just too convenient for such a simple plot. The ending puzzles are rather contrived and consist of something that you probably heard and forgot. (Another puzzle is really bad - they gave a puzzle that only people with ears for music can solve!) The ending is also the weakest, resolved by a deux ex machina that you won't get if you didn't play KQ4. It truly needed more to lead up to that resolution to make it plausible, and even in the fictitious world of Daventry, there is a need to make sense and many of the games in the series (if not all) have logic behind their endings.

KQ7 is a really good game. It's a shame that its successor, Mask of Eternity, strayed from the established traditions, for it made the rest of the series meaningless and effectively ended the series. While the technology is dated by today's standards, it is still a very good game.

I haven't played the series since high school. Loved it then and love it now. What's funny is how the amount of respect number 7 has acquired over the years. As I recall, it opened to abysmal reviews: too easy, too cute, too cheesy. I think all of us miss the classics, the creativity, the mythology that made Sierra and game designers like Roberta Williams top in their time. I wish we could get something new with that same sparkle of imagination.

I am very satisfied withe the product and the seller who provided this item to me.

Wow what a great game! It is a mix in between day of the tentacle and Indiana jones and the fate of atlantis.