King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride
| King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride | |||
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| Original title | King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride | ||
| Studio |
 Sierra On-Line, Inc.
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| Publisher | Sierra On-Line, Inc. | ||
| Senior Developer | Roberta Williams | ||
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
November 23, 1994 | ||
| platform | IBM-PC ( DOS , Windows ), Macintosh ( Mac OS ) | ||
| Game engine | Sierra Creative Interpreter (SCI) | ||
| genre | Adventure | ||
| Subject | Adventure / fantasy | ||
| Game mode |
Single player , changing character |
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| control | Keyboard, joystick, mouse | ||
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King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride is an adventure game released by Sierra Entertainment (formerly Sierra Online) in 1994 . It is the seventh part of the King's Quest series. The game was designed with high-resolution graphics that are reminiscent of Disney animation films. It's also the only King's Quest game with multiple main characters and the only game that breaks the story into chapters.
About ScummVM is King's Quest VII will be played on many other operating systems, including Linux , macOS and Windows 10 .
action
At the opening of the game, Queen Valanice teaches her daughter Princess Rosella about the importance of marriage. Rosella is a little rebellious and dreams of adventure rather than finding a suitable husband. She catches a glimpse of something magical in a pond and jumps into it. Valanice follows her.
- Part 1 - "Where in the blazes am I?"
- Queen Valanice lands in a desert in the land of Eldritch and begins to look for her daughter there. She encounters different characters, such as a giant scorpion, a hare who has lost his glasses, or a walking dead who needs drinking water. She has to solve a few puzzles in order to be able to exit this area through a locked tunnel.
- Part 2 - "A troll is as a troll does."
- Princess Rosella finds herself in the realm of the trolls, where she was chosen as future consort for the king there. She has been turned into a troll herself. In addition, she is locked in a room and has to free herself from there. Rosella cannot leave Trollland until she has found a way to reverse the transformation. To do this, she needs a wide variety of objects to be found. As the two characters try to find each other, they discover that all of Eldritch's residents are in danger. The evil sorceress Malicia has attacked or arrested the leaders of the other kingdoms of Eldritch and plans to destroy the land.
- Part 3 - "The sky is falling!"
- Valanice now reaches a new blooming area through the tunnel, where she meets a deer guarding his wife (the mistress of the woods) who has been turned into a tree. She goes to the Dog Republic, a small place where there are a few puzzles to be solved again. At the end of the chapter, Valanice is arrested for allegedly stealing the moon (a cheese).
- Part 4 - "Will the real troll king please stand up."
- Rosella has regained her human form and takes a kind of elevator to an area that resembles a cemetery. You have to get an item called Extra Life, which is crucial for the outcome of the game. There she also meets the troll king Otar, with whom she tries to prevent Malicia's dark plans. You go to a secret room from which Malicia wants to erupt a volcano.
- Part 5 - "Nightmare in Etheria"
- Valanice is released again. She has to manage to get the flow of life back on track. Then she arrives at Malicia's house and through their garden also into the cemetery land, but without finding her daughter there. Valanice has to give the headless rider his skull back and receives a flute for it; With the help of this flute she can call a flying horse that will bring her to the land of Etheria. There she has to go to the three Parzen and can return to the different areas via four rainbows. In order to fulfill her mission, she has to work with Dr. Carcasses climb a coffin in the cemetery land, live a nightmare and heal the mistress of the woods and come to the gods for help.
- Part 6 - "Ready, set ... BOOM!"
- Rosella is in the control center where two identical troll kings fight each other. She now has to point a magic wand at one of the trolls so that the enchanted Edgar turns into a human again. Malicia arrives and teleports Rosella into the volcano's crater. But Edgar manages to get Valanice with the help of the flying horse - together with the gods they manage to prevent the outbreak. Malicia tries one last time to realize her plans by killing Edgar. Fortunately, Rosella has the extra life. However, if you don't give this to the prince at the end of the game, the outcome will be tragic; but if you give it to him, it will have a happy ending.
- Others
The name of this part is a pun on the title of the novel and film The Princess Bride (Engl. "The Princess Bride") by William Goldman . There are many film-like sequences built into this game, which are underlaid with music.
Characters (selection)
- Queen Valanice of Daventry - the mother of the princess who goes in search of her daughter and is a main character in this game.
- Princess Rosella - is the second main character who, together with her mother, must save Eldritch from doom in order to be able to return to her homeland.
- Mathilde - the nanny of the troll king Otar, who helps Rosella to regain her human form and so leave the troll kingdom.
- Edgar - is the Prince of Eldritch, who was abused by Malicia for their machinations. She has transformed him into the image of the Troll King to help her destroy his Eldritch. It only appears in the 6th chapter.
- Malicia - she is the evil magician who wants to destroy Etheria, the land above the clouds, with the help of a volcano. She captured Otar and Edgar.
- Lord Attis and Lady Ceres - the lord of the hunt and his wife Ceres, the mistress of the woods or the goddess of spring, both have to be transformed back into their human form by Valanice.
synchronization
The recordings for the German version were recorded by the Voice Group, Los Angeles.
Sabine Duvall was responsible for both dialogue direction and production management. Johanna "Wusel" Wilhelm and John Hugo worked on the translation. Neill Grandstaff was the sound engineer.
| Main cast | English speaker | German speaker |
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| Valanice from Daventry | Carol Bach y Rita | Claudia von Hasslingen |
| Rosella of Daventry (language) | Maureen McVerry | Diana Frank |
| Rosella (vocals) | Debbie Seibert | - was not translated - |
| Malicia | Ruth Kobart | Serania Jacklin |
| Edgar / the false troll king | Jesse Moises | George Salden / Jörg Fischer |
| King Otar Fenris III, Lord of the Trolls | Denny Delk | Jörg Fischer |
| Cuddly | Roger Jackson | Jörg Fischer |
| in the desert | English speaker | German speaker |
| The kangaroo rat (Ricardo Eduardo Rodriguez Rudolpho rat) | Roger Jackson | Daniel Dermitzel |
| The Desert Spirit (Colin Farwalker) | Fred Barson | Curt Lowens |
| The jackalope | Jeffry O'Brien | Friedrich Solms |
| volcanic underworld | English speaker | German speaker |
| Mathilde | Esther Hirsch | Serania Jacklin |
| The rough blacksmith troll | Jeffry O'Brien | Friedrich Solms |
| The jeweler troll (Oppi gold value) | Joe Paulino | Curt Lowens |
| The cooking troll | James Crann | George balances |
| Brutus Bone Breaker, the Bridge Troll | Don Robins | Jörg Fischer |
| The crystal dragon | Ruth Kobart | Curt Lowens |
| Troll in the mud bath 1 (Hogarth) | Greg Walsh | Jörg Fischer |
| Troll in the Mud Bath 2 (Blotar) | Marcus Lewis | Andreas Renell |
| Trollin in the mud bath 1 (Egglentine) | Maureen McVerry | Diana Frank |
| Trollin in the Mud Bath 2 (Winnie) | Esther Hirsch | Serania Jacklin |
| The dragon toad | Greg Walsh | Friedrich Solms |
| Spike | Carol Bach y Rita | Sunje Zittel |
| Spike's mother | Jeffry O'Brien | Sunje Zittel |
| in the benevolent woods | English speaker | German speaker |
| Attis / the deer | Toby Gleason | Jörg Fischer |
| Ceres | Carol Bach y Rita | Sunje Zittel |
| The hummingbird | Maureen McVerry | Diana Frank |
| The spider | Joe Paulino | Jörg Fischer |
| Feldspar, the rock spirit | Timothy W. White | Jörg Fischer |
| Dog Republic | English speakers | German speaker |
| The disgusting gate guard | Doug Boyd | Jörg Fischer |
| Archduke Fifi le Yipyap | James Cranna | George balances |
| The Chicken Petite | Esther Hirsch | Diana Frank |
| The mockingbird | James Cranna | George balances |
| Fernando Bullforth, the cop in the china shop | Jarion Monroe | Curt Lowens |
| The snake oil seller | Roger Jackson | Daniel Dermitzel |
| Baby, the porcelain bird | Maureen McVerry | Diana Frank |
| Substitute for Scherz, the joke shop owner | Toby Gleason | Jörg Fischer |
| The town hall guard | Simon Vance | Curt Lowens |
| The prison roof guard | Simon Vance | Curt Lowens |
| The enchanted statue | Esther Hirsch | Sunje Zittel |
| The jury badgers | Doug Boyd, James Cranna, Fred Barson and Denny Delk | George Salden and Friedrich Solms |
| in the swamp | English speaker | German speaker |
| The three-headed carnivorous plant | Roger Jackson | Jörg Fischer |
| in Ooga Booga | English speakers | German speaker |
| Dr. Mort Cadaver, the coroner | Marcus Lewis | Andreas Renell |
| Tormentor 1 | Roger Jackson | Daniel Dermitzel |
| Tormentor 2 | Yukiko Yamaguchi | Sunje Zittel |
| The grave digger | Marcus Lewis | Andreas Renell |
| The black cat | Yukiko Yamaguchi | Sunje Zittel |
| The black dog | Jesse Moises | Jörg Fischer |
| Count Tsepish (the headless rider) | Joe Paulino | Curt Lowens |
| Countess Tsepish (the woman in black) | Willow Wray | Sunje Zittel |
| The black man | Don Robins | Curt Lowens |
| The shrunken heads | Denny Delk, James Cranna, Doug Boyd | Daniel Dermitzel, Jörg Fischer, Curt Lowens |
| The Mummy | Fred Barson | Curt Lowens |
| Hannibal Nibbler, the psycho mouse | Joe Paulino | Jörg Fischer |
| The bugbear (Dr. Cadaver's patient) | Jeffry O'Brien | Friedrich Solms |
| in Etheria | English speaker | German speaker |
| Lachesis | Willow Wray | Sunje Zittel |
| Clotho | Carol Bach y Rita | Sunje Zittel |
| Atropos | Yukiko Yamaguchi | Sunje Zittel |
| Borasco | Don Robins | Jörg Fischer |
| Gharbi | Willow Wray | Sunje Zittel |
| Levant | Toby Gleason | Jörg Fischer |
| Oberon | Timothy W. White | Jörg Fischer |
| Titania | Carol Bach y Rita | Sunje Zittel |
Web links
- Details about King's Quest VII on mobygames.com
- Information about the game on mobygames.com
- Ken and Roberta Williams about King's Quest VII on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about King's Quest VII on mobygames.com
- ↑ a b c d e f Game description on allgame.com
- ↑ a b [1] on http://215072.homepagemodules.de/
- ↑ [2] on http://www.imdb.com/