The worst possible game to speedrun... but I did it | King's Quest III

Описание: King's Quest III was made in 1986... and it was NOT meant to be played quickly. Or predictably. This typing game has more randomness, more tediousness, and more punishment than any game of this era or since... but I LOVE IT. When I heard it was one of the King's Quest games that speedrunners don't like to do, I figured... how bad could it be?!

01:05 Start of the run
06:14 Menannan goes on his journey
29:40 After the boat ride
33:26 We did it

So I played through the game and a few days later I was learning speedrunning tricks. It ended up being way harder, and way more interesting, than I thought it would be. Yes, there is a wizard that will end your game without any notice. Yes, you can fall off the cliffs endlessly. Yes, there are many spells you need to manually type out. Yes, there is an UNSKIPPABLE 14 MINUTE BOAT RIDE. But figuring out what parts of the game were necessary and which parts I could skip, really allowed me to customize my run from the others and figure out my own way.

The hardest part is the eagle feather. So many of my attempts were ruined by the eagle not dropping that darn feather. There's a 1 in 4 chance the eagle will appear, he doesn't always appear right away when you enter the screen, AND he doesn't always drop the feather. Darn that eagle.

Anyway, if you enjoyed this run, let me know if you want to see more! Text parsers are my favourite of all the retro games we play together. This was my first time taking a peek at the speedrunning aspect. I'm usually known for finding new, interesting ways of getting softlocked... so trying to AVOID softlocks for once was new for me :)