![]() ![]() ![]() Like Phantasmagoria, you can start at the beginning of any of the six chapters at any time, in case you get stuck and want to see the later parts of the game. Eventually she gets turned back into a human and ends up in Ooga Booga land, a Halloween-themed town that may well have been lifted from The Nightmare Before Christmas, before eventually meeting up with her mother and foiling Malacia’s plot. Rosella, in the meantime, gets turned into troll and is stuck getting betrothed to the troll king. Valanice starts off stranded in a desert and eventually ends up into the colorful town of Falderal. The quest is divided up into six chapters, with the viewpoints alternating between Valanice and Rosella. (It’s a reference to the cult classic fantasy adventure movie/novel The Princess Bride.) A secondary goal is to maybe find a groom for Rosella along the way, as the title implies. The initial goal is, of course, to meet up and find their way home, but during their travels they come upon the scheme of Malacia, herself an amalgamation of various Disney villainesses, who wishes to execute a number of evil deeds. The flighty princess is then distracted by a tiny flying seahorse, and both Rosella and Valanice are sucked into a pool, with both being transported to separate parts of another foreign world. The animated intro depicts Rosella singing a Disney-esque ballad about how she doesn’t want to get married yet, while her mother looks on sternly. King’s Quest VII stars the women of Daventry, with Rosella returning alongside Queen Valanice, marking her first (and only) appearance as a playable character. It is indeed a fantastic looking game but, like King’s Quest V, the march forward in visuals meant the actual game had to suffer. When she returned to the King’s Quest series with the seventh game, she went in the total opposite direction of Phantasmagoria, instead turning her series into a Disney cartoon. ![]() It was a marked departure from her other games, being that it was frightfully gory in spots, in the name of making games “for adults”. After King’s Quest VI, Roberta Williams took a break from the series and attempted to push forward the gaming medium with Phantasmagoria, a live action full motion video horror game. ![]()
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