King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne
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| Developer(s) | Sierra On-Line |
| Publisher(s) | Sierra On-Line |
| Engine | AGI |
| Platform(s) | PC, Macintosh, Apple II, Apple IIGS, Amiga, Atari ST, PCjr |
| Release date(s) | 1985, 1987 |
| Genre(s) | Adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne is the second installment in the King's Quest series created by Sierra Entertainment (formerly Sierra On-Line). It uses the same AGI game engine as King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown and features King Graham as the player character.
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[edit] Story
The Magic Mirror shows King Graham a vision about a beautiful woman, Valanice, imprisoned on the top of an ivory tower. Being charmed by her, he is teleported to the world of Kolyma to rescue her. There he must travel through sea, air, and even death to gain the keys that unlock the three doors to the world where Hagatha the witch has imprisoned Valanice.
[edit] Enemies
Throughout his quest King Graham has to overcome several enemies to find his queen.
Hagatha is the witch who resides in Kolyma and imprisons Valanice in the Crystal Tower, due to jealousy. She is said to be the most powerful and evil of witches, and has a taste for human flesh. The skulls of her victims decorate the outside and inside of her cave. In the original version of King's Quest II, if you sneak up to her in her cave and type "kiss Hagatha", you'll get a humorous response: "Smack, hug, whoopie.. yuck, barf, gag." [1]
The Enchanter lives in Kolyma, he enjoys turning people into frogs. He is tall and stately with black flowing robe and a long white beard. He has an evil gleam in his piercing black eyes.
Dracula is a vampire - a supernatural being of great strength, and immortal as long as is able to drink the blood of humans at regular intervals.[2]
[edit] Easter Eggs
On the cliffs after the snake, there is a boulder with a little hole in it. Type LOOK IN HOLE while standing in front of it, you will see a preview demo of Sierra's Space Quest I.
In the Apple II version you will see a preview for King's Quest III in the same hole.
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[edit] Official Sierra Remake, 1990
In 1990 the developers at Sierra redeveloped Kings Quest I with a new interface and up-to-date technology. The plan was to redevelop Kings Quest 2 but due to rather disappointing sales of the 1990 remake of King's Quest I, the prospect of officially remaking and re-releasing King's Quest II was scrapped. The game was remade by fans[3] but the original version has never been updated.[4]
[edit] Re-releases and remakes
The game was first released in 1985 on a self-booting disk that supported CGA, PCjr, and Tandy graphics. It was rereleased in 1987 for DOS, adding EGA and Hercules support.
Kings Quest II was unofficially remade in 2002 when AGD Interactive, then known as Tierra Entertainment, released the fan-made King's Quest II+: Romancing the Stones. The remake uses a point-and-click interface functionally identical to an advanced SCI game engine, VGA graphics and digital sound, including full speech for all characters. Notably for an unofficial, fan-made project, the game's protagonist King Graham is voiced by Josh Mandel, who also voiced the part in Sierra's official CD-ROM full-speech versions of King's Quest V and VI. In contrast to the group's remake of King's Quest I, a content-wise identical presentation upgrade, King's Quest II+ redesigns the original game to adding a fleshed-out plot instead of the scarce few story elements of the 1985 version (although it changes several points of the plot), a number of puzzles, new characters and locations including a town, and references to future King's Quest games.
In March 2009, AGD Interactive released version 3.0 of this popular remake, but this time with Vivendi's approval. This version showcases redrawn backgrounds and dialogue pictures. The voice-acting was also dramatically improved. Thanks to fan feedback, many problems were attended to.
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