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Description
After having recovered the three treasures, King Graham has been crowned king. Now having needing a queen for companionship, Graham searches the land for a maiden, but to no avail, so he turns to the magic mirror for help. The mirror shows him a beautiful girl locked away in a quartz tower in a faraway land of Kolyma, and must find three keys that are used to unlock the door that will lead to her.King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne is a graphic adventure game. As is typical for Sierra's AGI games, players move Graham around with arrow keys and perform actions by typing commands in the interface, which are usually combination of verbs and nouns. The game is similar to its predecessor in structure and gameplay system. Like Daventry, Kolyma is a large cyclical world consisting of interconnected screens. Compared to the first game, it is bigger and busier, with more locations and places of interest. Puzzles follow a similar format; knowledge of fairy tales is advisable for solving some of them, and complex solutions grant the player more points than a brute force approach possible in some cases.
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- "KQ2" -- Informal abbreviated title
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Whosoever plays this game will have to remember their fairy tales | Katakis | カタキス (42793) | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
great when I played it, but it sure didn't age well | Gothicgene (83) | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Critic Reviews
The Retro Spirit | Dec 23, 2007 | 6 out of 6 | 100 |
Adventure-Treff | Sep 13, 2002 | 79 out of 100 | 79 |
Jeuxvideo.com | Apr 14, 2014 | 15 out of 20 | 75 |
Just Games Retro | Apr 29, 2007 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
60 |
Adventure Gamers | Oct 28, 2005 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
60 |
Adventure Classic Gaming | Nov 15, 1999 | 3 out of 5 | 60 |
Joker Verlag präsentiert: Sonderheft | 1993 | 59 out of 100 | 59 |
Just Adventure | 1999 | C | 50 |
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- The game has several easter eggs, including a cameo appearance of the Batmobile outside of the evil witch's cave.
- In the "Pegasus" section, if you look in a hole in one of the screens, it'll play a quick demo for Space Quest, whose designers also worked on this game.
- Kolyma is, in fact, a river far in north-eastern Siberia, infamous for Soviet prison camps in this area. Millions of "enemies of the Soviet Union" perished in the whole "Gulag Archipelago", including the Kolyma camps, which were among the most terrible ones due to very harsh climate.
Related Web Sites
- AGD Interactive (Download King's Quest 2 remake for free)
- King's Quest 2 complete pictorial walkthrough + easter eggs (KQ2 complete detailed walkthrough with screenshots & easter eggs. )
- KQ2 Hints (Robert Norton's hints will definitely help you get through this game.)
- ScummVM (supports the DOS, Macintosh, Amiga, Atari ST, Apple IIgs versions of King's Quest II under Windows, Linux, Macintosh and other platforms.)
- Sierra's Official Solution (Reprinted here on Games Over)
Andy Roark (268) added King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne (DOS) on May 19, 1999
Other platforms contributed by Trypticon (11039), POMAH (65229), Andy Roark (268), Katakis | カタキス (42793), Garcia (4827) and Belboz (6576)
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