King's Quest IV - The Perils of Rosella

It seems that we are half way through the King's Quest series. This is the fourth of eight (at least to this date) episodes that tell you the story of a family and their adventures through many lands and numerous kingdoms.

Story

Prince Alexander returned home and all is well again. However, as things are prone to go, King Graham suffers a major heart attack and hovers near death. It's up to his daughter -- Princess Rosella to go in search of a magical fruit that will restore her father to perfect health again.

Opinion

This game is great! The old EGA graphics of the first three episodes have been replaced by high resolution EGA pictures, and now there's finally some music during gameplay. The songs are few and far between, but they're beautiful (as beautiful as you can imagine an Adlib tune to be). The story is actually quite interesting and has many twists and turns which I won't reveal right now. The only problem is (I don't know if you can consider this a problem), that the game is a little bit too hard. Just to give you an example: You start the game on a beach. Naturally, you go into the water to swim a little. Naturally, you get eaten by sharks. Okay, conclusion: stay clear of the ocean. What I didn't know was, that midway through the game you have to get lucky (meaning: don't meet any sharks) and swim across the ocean to a little island. You should have seen my face when I finally peeked into the walkthrough.

Finally a game that makes your brain hurt a little.