You get the first seven King's Quest games on one disc, which is nice. Overall it's not hard to use, DOS Box is also on the disc, all you have to do is install it. I did have trouble understanding the DOS Box setup (apparently you don't have to actually install DOS Box? It was a little confusing, not going to lie), but the games are installed and playable.
KQ1: Extremely basic, harder to beat than I expected. There were more ways to die doing dumb things than I would have imagined. The text commands were difficult to figure out (there's a reason we moved away from text-based gaming!) and I'm fairly sure the game was included only because it's the first game in the series and hard to find elsewhere.
KQ2: Gameplay was about the same as KQ1, I was more familiar with the terms I needed to use for prompts. I found the extremely pixelated graphics distracting in this game, as it wasn't as much of a continuous environment game as KQ1 had been. Again, this game was on the disc for the nostalgia and the fans.
KQ3 and 4: I have previously played KQ3 and didn't feel the need to revisit the game. The opening of the game, with it's timed tasks and Mannanan popping up far too often was frankly annoying, and playing through it once was more than enough. KQ4 requires a password, which was not included in the box (my version came with no booklets or leaflets or insets) and while I could probably have looked it up online, I was too eager to get to KQ5 and 6 to bother.
KQ5: I loved this game as a child. I didn't understand it, but I loved looking at it. The background world is color-rich, and I loved the romance of the Weeping Willow. The plot is fairly straightforward--your family has been kidnapped so you have to find them. Getting through the game this time was fairly easy. The labyrinth beneath Mordack's castle wasn't as complicated as I remembered. The only parts that were truly maddening were trying to find my way through the desert and trying to remember the correct sequence to visit the shops in (I'm including the Bakery and the Inn as shops). The game was just challenging enough, while still being interesting. My only complaint was that there was no toggle between text and speech, as in KQ6, so you have to put up with the voices the whole time. Which would have been fine, except I had wanted to play without my headphones, and no dialogue boxes popped up.
KQ6: Okay, I'll be honest, I love this game. It's the reason I started playing computer games in the first place (on my own, at least, as opposed to with a friend or my sister or my dad). Very basic graphics, maybe, but rich worlds and characters, a plot that weaves in fairy tales and mythology, and a very classic melodrama at the core. The only problem I have with this one is that my copy has a glitch where if you don't save every fifteen to twenty minutes (or after every task is completed), the game will freeze and you have to restart. Which sucks, because I like to marathon my way through that game, saving only occasionally, but oh well.
KQ7: I haven't been able to play this yet, for some reason it won't work. I'll have to go back and uninstall/reinstall, then play through.
