King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human (Infamous Adventures)

King's Quest III: To Heir is Human

Developer(s) Infamous Adventures
Series King's Quest (unofficial)
Engine Adventure Game Studio
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows
Release date(s) 2006
Genre(s) Adventure
Distribution digital download

King's Quest III: To Heir is Human (aka King's Quest III VGA/King's Quest III Gold Edition) is a VGA-style fangame remake/retelling of Sierra Entertainment's King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human by Infamous Adventures.[1] It was released on June 19, 2006. It is a slightly expanded remake offering new material including; new cutscenes, a few new characters, expanded narration or dialogue, full speech, new or modified locations, and Easter eggs. Most of the original puzzles remain intact (other than the spell system was streamlined) or item placement changed.[2][3][4] The game received the AGS reward for best documentation in 2006.[5]

Background

The young baby Gwydion is kidnapped from his castle by one of the castle's staff and brought to Manannan. The boy has a hard life growing up as his slave. As is the tradition, the evil wizard will kill the boy upon his eighteenth birthday. That date is fast approaching, and it is up to Gwydion to thwart Manannan and his brother Mordak's plans, escape and find his way home.

When his master isn't watching Alexander explores Llewdor to create spells that will allow him to defeat his master. Along the way he meets the Three Bears, an Oracle, defeats Medusa, and meets other citizens of the country.

Once he defeats Manannan and leaves Llewdor, he escapes pirates, an abominable snowman, and defeats a three-headed dragon, meets a wise gnome, saves his sister, all before he can be reunited with his family. Alexander spends weeks helping his father repair the damage to the kingdom. When they are finished, Alexander and his sister are called to the throne room in their finest regalia by their father. The magic mirror is restored and Graham passes his adventure's cap to his son.

Some time later, Mordack travels to Llewdor to rescue his brother to bring him back to his island. The evil wizard destroys the house, so that none would use it again, and discover Manannan's secrets.

Features

Development

Infamous Adventures released the game on June 18, 2006. The game was made by the team because they wanted to see if they could do it, and prove they had the drive and ability to recreate the game with updated graphics and sounds.[6]

The official announcement for the game read:

That's right, the wait is over. I smile with joy as I type these words in, thinking if this day was ever to come. The production is over, the testers are done and everything is ready to go. King's Quest III has finally been released. Remember this date, the 18th of June. The day KQ3 was released!
It's been twenty years since the evil wizard Manannan first appeared on our computer screens, but now, thanks to the hard work and dedication of the team at Infamous Adventures, he's back!

Infamous Adventures decided to remake the remake to create a game that would run on modern computers, and bring it up to the quality of Kings Quest 5. It was made in the tradition of AGD Interactive's King's Quest remakes.

Geography

Characters

Version History

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