King's Quest III: Difference between revisions

If this story seems unconnected to the earlier two ''King's Quest'' games, that's because it is-- or rather, it seems to be. Gwydion has no obvious link to the royal family of Daventry, and people initially disliked this game because of it. The connection between games is revealed only at the end of the first act -- {{spoiler|Gwydion is Alexander, King Graham's son, who had been kidnapped by Manannan as an infant}}. [[Late Arrival Spoiler|But if you've played the later games, you know that already.]]

* [[All There in the Manual]]: All the formulae.

* [[Bigfoot Sasquatch and Yeti]]

* [[Black Cloak]]: Manannan wears one. He's also linked via later game to the Black Cloak Society, which may or may not be a [[Legion of Doom]].

** The innocuous items punishment is justified, however: Manannan might have raised you from childhood, but he's not been nice about it, and he's absolutely ''paranoid'' that you might learn to do something about that before he can find another child to raise (at which point he'll kill you).

** And Gwydion is far from Manannan's first child slave, and according to a [[Apocalyptic Log|diary]] in the remake, not the first to attempt using the wizard's own spells against him. No doubt he's become [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] over the years.

* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: The Oracle explains that Graham has passed this due to {{spoiler|Rosella being chosen as a [[Human Sacrifice]]}}, which is why he cannot fight the dragon.

* [[Drop in Nemesis]]: Manannan will use any excuse he can to appear out of nowhere, and either torment you for not performing your tasks, or just flat out kill you on the spot for doing something that might be a threat to him. Finally getting rid of him feels ''really'' good.

* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: Manannan.

* [[Fairy Tale]]: Typical of the franchise

* [[Fan Remake]]/[[Video Game Remake]]: Three of them. [[Crystal Shard]] started one with the original graphics and a fleshed out plot; [[Infamous Adventures]] created one with better graphics and the original plot. [[AGD Interactive]] announced one with better graphics and some tie-ins to their ''[[King's Quest II Romancing the Throne (Video Game)|King's Quest II]]'' remake. The former has been aborted, the second is complete, the last came out early 2011.

* [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]]: The Three Bears, Medusa, pirates and a three-headed dragon.

* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: The only way to defeat Manannan is to make him have a taste of his own remedy.

** In the [[Expanded Universe]] material, the cat he keeps was a rival of his, and he's done this more than once.

* [[Inept Mage]]: Gwydion, unless you help him master the goddamn spells.

* [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]: {{spoiler|Gwydion is Prince Alexander. It is referenced many times in all of the later games.}} This reveal is very easy to miss in this game itself.

* [[Pixel Hunt]]: One of the ingredients you have to collect for a spell is a snake skin. It is a brown squiggle in the desert-- where, incidentally, there are hundreds of other brown squiggles. Happy hunting!

* [[Point of No Return]]: Once you're on the ship, that's it. Hope you got everything you needed back in Llewdor.

* [[Shout Out]]: The last part of the game takes place in the area of ''[[King's Quest I Quest for The Crown (Video Game)|King's Quest I Quest for The Crown]]''.

** In the AGDI remake, the music that plays when you die by falling sounds like the end of the ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'' theme song.

** It's a kiss on the cheek. Still, the embarrassing "proof of identification" (a birthmark on his bum) more than makes up for it. Yes, you end up mooning your sister...

* [[Staircase Tumble]]: Careful on those stairs leading down to the wizard's secret workshop in the basement. Sometimes the wizard's cat will sit on the steps, causing you to trip over it and go flying.