Roberta Williams' King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown

The Good
It was very interesting to revisit Daventry with updated sights and sounds. Most of the graphic re-draws were (technically) much better than the original low-res graphics of the original. The enhanced music heard through better sound cards was also very welcome.

The Bad
Being intimately familiar with the original hurt my enjoyment of the remake drastically. It was quite frustrating; I kept going to places that either weren't there, or weren't available via certain paths that were in the original.

For those not familiar with the original, the setting was not up to the time's standards (1990), and didn't have the same hold. The original was a smash hit because of its technology and quaint setting, but a quaint setting wasn't enough to hold a player's attention in the 1990s.

The final nail in the coffin for me was a bug that crashed the game that was reproducable (near a stream, you could try to walk behind a wall of bushes, be completely obscured, try to get out, and then "fall" into the stream except that you'd keep falling over and over.

The Bottom Line
There is no compelling reason to play this remake unless you want to rediscover Daventry with enhanced sights and sounds (if that's important to you).