King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder on NES - NESfriend
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 มี.ค. 2023
- What will Sir Graham get into this time!?
Some images for my videos are from screenscraper.fr. Please support them here: / screenscraper
Find me on Twitter: / travplaysgames / @polykill
*** Intro music was provided freely by Jason Heine's Background Beats. Find your mix here www.HeineHouse.com.
*** Outro theme courtesy of HokieBriz / hokiebriz
I have podcasts. Go to www.polymedianetwork.com to learn more.
For comedy/gaming check out Polykill.
For interviews of other content creators, find DrunkFriend! I do that one with SNESdrunk.
For comedic narrative tales of video game stories, find Tales of the Lesser Medium.
All of the podcasts on my network can be found on the Polymedia Network website.
Support what I do: / polykill - เกม
I've got to call you on the "Wizard and the Princess" comment, because that's incorrect in a couple of ways. This comes from Roberta Williams eventually using elements from the old game.
Wizard and the Princess isn't "the first in the series" of King's Quest, except in some canon sense. It was part of the "Hi-Res Adventures" games and it plays like those games, which are like illustrated Zork-style text parser games. There's none of the point-and-click adventure style
The one thing you have most significantly wrong is that the King's Quest games do not "all take place in Serenia". King's Quest I-IV take place in or around Daventry. It wasn't until this game, King's Quest V, that Princess and the Wizard was Retconned into being in the same universe as King's Quest when the character travels to Serenia, and this is the only game set in Serenia.
If a new Metal Gear Solid game sent the character to fight Simon Belmont from Castlevania, and this was canon, would Castlevania be the first Metal Gear game? More directly, if Roberta Williams released a new Phantasmagoria set in Serenia, would King's Quest be a Phantasmagoria game?
ok thanks
I'm dying
A severe "well actually" if ever I've seen it.
@@Hungrybillpizzabandit I don't think NES Friend was trying to have bad info, but it was wrong. I'm not trying to be rude to him. I think he's trying to do good work. The problems starts because Wikipedia lists "Wizard and the Princess" this way, and that's the extremely tiresome "Well, Actually" in the first place. It minimizes the importance of King's Quest for a game that actually didn't matter.
TH-cam has a way of spreading incorrect info from video to video. You here a bad piece of info somewhere and it gets around like the plague despite being provably false (like "Megaman was a sales flop").
This wasn't supposed to be a Comic Book Guy type point even though that's what I ended up getting across. It's not actually about the story inside the game. I honestly don't care much where it was set. It's just that the info in the video was wrong and that seemed like a quick way to prove the point.
It doesn't matter what the canon is; it matters that King's Quest was made as a completely unique game in 1984. It matters because it wasn't created because Sierra had a good idea; it was created because IBM had a need for a PC Jr. game and an idea and paid for it to be made.
King's Quest is the most important PC game made up to that point. It matters because it (eventually) changed what PC gaming was expected to be. It matters because it creates a completely new genre of adventure game that still exists to this day in one form or another.
There's so much more to this story; "Wizard and the Princess" is the "Well, actually" to this story that shows up on Wikipedia or wherever else. "Wizard" is a random text parser game in a series of text parser games with images that Sierra was making. It shared themes with King's Quest. Really it's a footnote in history that no one would have cared about except if Williams hadn't reincorporated the story.
At some point, I get tired of seeing history changed by the "Well, actually" guys who didn't know or weren't there and don't get the context. Then everybody else sees the same info and trying to make their own video end up spreading what they think is true.
@@kyleolson8977 you should make a video. Looks like you have a lot to say on the topic, and a lot of passion
This one doesn't have an NES port, but if you liked the humor and world-building of King's Quest V, I absolutely recommend KQVI. It's one of the best and well worth a playthrough. Gorgeous world with lots of cool puzzles and really good voice acting. Tony Jay is in it!
Ah, my favourite Bond film. Passwords Are Forever.
😂 Ah, well done.
I had no idea this even existed
This channel is an absolute breath of fresh air after a decade of breathing only the farts of recently deceased corpses every second. (99% of retro TH-camrs are the farts)
I grew up playing this game and it was my only King's Quest V experience until a few Christmases ago when I finally got around to the PC version. I have so much nostalgia for it, and I appreciated your showcase of a lot of the soundtrack here in your video.
I'm glad you enjoyed your time with it overall. So many folks look down on this port because of the graphics, but it's more or less a 1:1 in terms of the content. Thank you for giving it a shot!
Researching this and seeing the PC graphics made me really want to give that version a shot. Something about those old DOS graphics gives me the warm and fuzzies.
@@NESFriend as a non pc gamer and oddly previous owner of this game, I agree
I had the same experience growing up. I had the NES version for about 5 years before trying the PC one. I actually love it more than the PC version overall, but I fully understand why that makes me sound crazy lol
I grew up playing Sierra adventure games on an IBM PC. I still find them charming if undeniably obsolete. The Black Cauldron is more familiar to me than the King’s Quest series, but I can appreciate Sierra’s commitment ;)
Last time my castle was stolen, I asked NES friend instead of a talking owl, and I ended up playing Gary Kitchen's games for weeks. Next time, I'll ask the owl.
oh no you poor man!
Happy Wednesday everyone!
One thing I really love about the NES, retrospectively, that I feel like modern platforms have only caught up to in the last decade or so, is just the vast variety of genres and styles of game.
I never played this game (or series) but it's always impressed me by it's level of quality for the NES - graphically and functionally.
Church! Good seeing ya around.
Great coverage. That save system is quite ahead of its time.
KQ5 on PC was the first game I finished. Loved it!
I think absence of this game in my life makes my heart grow fonder.
lol, oh Gruber.
The controls do take some getting used to and the game can feel clunky at times but you get used to it. They tried but you got to wonder why they chose the NES instead of the SNES for this one. Konami also published Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego for the NES so it's clear they wanted to bring the PC experience to consoles.
I've generally avoided point and click on NES, but this one at least looks pretty good, considering. I'm glad you also think Graham is dim witted.
Maybe the game is actually connect to the Mario series, and this is one of the castles Bowser stole to go hide in.
Solid theory! Mordach is a Magikoopa!
I love this game - mostly because I would go to a friend's house as a kid and we'd play this on his PC so when I saw it came out on the NES, I was thrilled. I know it's not perfect by any means but the story is pretty good.
Always worried this one mightve been too technical, glad to hear its not. Ill have to give it a try!
Way more accessible than I thought as well. Have the manual handy and I don't think there's a ton of shame in consulting a guide here and there when you're stuck. The game was made in a day where they assumed you only had 2 other games to play and you'd spend enough time with this one to figure it out eventually. Ef that in 2023, have fun!
@@NESFriend my add is too strong to not have a guide. Lots of games to play+ family&job. The idea of finishing something in a reasonable manner is the goal.
Dude where's my castle?
Dude, where's MY castle?
Anyone think King Graham did case the down fall of his kingdom by printing endless money with his magic gold making box? He gets the box and next we see its all gone to hell with 1 dude left in the land , before he had like 12 people and a goat. 5 ppl started there own town
This tin foil hat doesn't fit perfectly but I'm wearing it in unison with you!
Great review! Are there technical limitations or requirements to the save capabilities of the NES? Is there a reason passwords are so long? Could a password be just 4 characters and function just as well?
I would say because it saves you in an exact location with your specific inventory and has to know the order you've performed actions in, the password needs to be a little longer to account for all of those variables.
@@NESFriend that makes sense. So I guess it's a lot like loading a save state.
it's wild that this port exists but come on, why did they never put king's quest on the snes??
I only know the DOS version, this is interesting! But to be fair, it looks like shit!
That is fair.
Apparently the game does have battery saves, but the batteries are not in the cart physically.
What do you mean?
According to the creator of the Persistent Battery Saves patch, that this port of KQV has an SRAM in the cartridge, but the developers forgot that the cart has a SRAM battery slot which makes it work that the saves dont stay even in hard resets, so they made a procedure that clears out the SRAM after the reset which prevents save data corruption, that's why passwords are used for loading games in this port.
To me, growing up playing the PC version, the NES version looks like garbage. At least you don't have to discover how truly annoying Cedric's voice is.