Quest for the Throne - King's Quest VII - Finale! and Grim Fandango

We will be finishing King's Quest VII tonight, completing the series (at least, the titles that actually count), and with it, this Quest for the Throne. More may await us, but we shall rest in our Quest for a time.

Tune in tonight at 9pm ET for the thrilling conclusion! But we're not stopping there; the Throne of Games plays ever onward!

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Sorry for the wait, Mr. Flórez. I am ready to take you now. My name's Manny Calavera. I'm your new travel agent.

Manny's job in the Land of the Dead is to help you get to your final destination. Some have an easy journey. Others aren't so lucky. Nor, for that matter, is Manny. A massive debt has forced him into this job, dealing with depressing clients and an overbearing boss. But not everything is as it may seem...including Manny himself.

Stick around after the end of King's Quest VII as we begin Grim Fandango!

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Quest for the Throne - King's Quest VII - Session 2

Last time on Quest for the Throne, we guided Queen Valanice out of the desert and to a village of cartoony animals, where she was arrested and charged with stealing the moon from the sky. Meanwhile, Rosella found herself in the Troll Kingdom, and transformed into a troll, to boot! With the help of a friendly matron, she gathered materials to cast a spell to change back into a human...and immediately met with trouble from a witch who had taken residence with the trolls.

Have mother and daughter gotten any closer to finding each other? Will they escape their respective situations unharmed?

Join us tonight at 9pm ET as we continue King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride!

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Quest for the Throne - King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride

Last time on Quest for the Throne, we completed King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow, which left us a scant 15 minutes or so of time at the end of the show...so we went ahead and began King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride. The story so far: Princess Rosella is uninterested in any of her suitors. While on a walk through the woods of Daventry, her mother, Queen Valanice, tries to convince her how important it is for her to find a husband. Having none of it, Rosella finds a portal in a pond, and jumps in, seeking adventure. Worried for her daughter, Valanice jumps in after her...just in time to see Rosella abducted by some brute. Valanice falls out the other end of the portal, finding herself in a desert. Rosella is nowhere to be seen.

King's Quest VII is the first game in the series where you get to play as Valanice (who hadn't really played much of a role in the series since the second game). It also takes a major turn in art direction, opting for a more cartoony, Don Bluth-inspired style...but they don't quite hit the mark. The sprite animations mostly look quite good, but the cutscenes look sloppy. The technology could be in part to blame for that, though. One of the studio's later games, Torin's Passage, retains the style, but does a much better job with it. If I can get it working on this computer, that may be a game we have to visit sometime on here...

Tune in tonight at 9pm ET to catch the (almost) beginning of King's Quest VII!

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