This is honestly the most graphically impressive game I have ever seen, of course there are far better looking games nowadays but if you stop to think about what the artists had to work with and what they managed to accomplish here, you'll see where I'm coming from, depth of field effects in 1993, come on now.
My friend and I played this together. Man we had fun. It took us weeks. I had to wait for a map to come in the mail to navigate the firrberry part. Omg!! We laughed so hard trying to figure it out.the graphics were great and it was a fun game.
What makes this game special is that it was an undiscovered gem, it didn't get much attention as other adventure games of the time. I have fond memories playing it back in my youth, the DOS era gaming was nothing short of magical.
Remember drawing the sketch of the cave map on a slip of gridded paper with my childhood friend )) golden era for video games, pure awesomeness! Thank you for the upload
The first Kyrandia game, despite being far surpassed by the other two games in the trilogy, is stlil quite an excellent adventure game that managed to rival even the likes of Sierra and LucasArts in their heydays.
This game series...we had an old Delchamps by our house when I was 11 or so that had one little stand alone rack of both VHS movies and PC games, I found this game first, the rest of them I found later at various times and places. I rented this game so often from that damn grocery store...the last time I rented it I accidentally returned something in it's place or gave them an empty case but I didn't realize it until I came upon the CD in an old desk drawer years later. By then, a decade had gone by and of course my computer didn't play D.O.S games so I forgot about it and it got lost shortly thereafter. I'd say it's been 20 years since I have seen these characters... 💞😍💞 Thank you so much, whoever you are, for being a geek and uploading such a rare treat 💋
Sarah M. I also found this game at the grocery store rental section. Fell in LOVE with it, so adorbs! Thank you kind sir for this amazing play through!
The music in this game is just amazing. Especially at 1:00:40, after having navigated for hours through dark caves and then becoming invincible... It still gives me goose bumps :)
This brings back memory when I had my first PC in 1998.. I finished all three games without walkthrough by trials and errors. There's no internet and google back then. Good old times! Good background music and art style.
I remember playing this game as a kid, about 30 years ago. It was the perfect mix of fun, enchanting, cool, creepy, slightly humorous…The whole series was an inspiration!
Wow, I remember this well. Nice. No voice acting on the version I played. Some people are saying there were no walkthroughs, but I know I definitely found one that told you exactly how to get through that fireberry part.
Back in the day there wasn’t internet. To get tips about games in the 90s you had to buy a magazine or call a phone number. The lines were busy all the time and the tips NEVER helped every time you called. That’s why we are the OG gamers. We had no walkthrough. No crutch of any kind. I had a flashback of the pure joy finally figuring out the fire berry bushes cave after countless hours. That’s what made me search for this video decades later. It’s crazy how the mind works. But nothing compares to Myst. Now that is the most epic of games not being able to use a walkthrough.
Loved this one, but FUCK that caves section. Good god. Also I thought an evil jester was a pretty weak big bad, but the other games in the series kinda went off the chain with some things, especially the Hand of Fate.
I remember playing this game even before i could read or understand english. I was always telling my mom to help me read it. I was 4 or 5 years old maybe 6...
I had this game and I think still have this disc but scratched to the point its unusuable. I was struggling with the cave part when I was 8 and gave up due no avail walkthroughts. After 30 years I find this jewel. Thanks a lot, I always wanted to see how it ends ☺️ happy new year 2024
Those were the days man. Being 11, 12, 13 playing good Westwood games with great atmosphere and artwork and music. Having to solve puzzles without using the internet to look it up because even though it was around you didn't have it in your home yet. Our generation got lucky. Kids today don't get games like the Kyrandia series or Lands of Lore, and you can tell. Games like this had a subtle but real effect on our minds and our psyche, in a positive way. Yes, we played Doom and Wolfenstein 3D as well. But we still had games like this.
I absolutely love the Legend of Kyrandia series (the first being my favorite - I found Brandon's dialogue throughout the game to be so great!), although I feel like Legend of Kyrandia 2 was better designed (no mazes! Less random!) but Legend of Kyrandia 3... and the Cat Island is... a nightmare! I recently finished all three (long play and commentary) on my channel.
my older brother gave this to us back in 1993 or 1994, and I could barely play it and never made it past the caves, always dying in the dark lol, but I loved the world it created, the visuals were cool and I liked the music and loved the gemstones theme. I remember trying to load it on a windows 98 OS and was so disappointed I couldn't figure out how to make that work
it was always the midi soundtrack which makes this kind of games classic and cult. also all the sierra adventure games like larry and quest for glory III in my case. Fate of atlantis from lucasarts another masterpiece. today we have too much graphics, but this confy gameplay isnt there anymore.
I played the shit out of this game, but obviously never discovered I could turn into a Pegasus. Watching all the convoluted puzzles after that, I could only shake my head. The first 90 of the game is sheer backtracking, way more than I'd remembered. But there's no way I'd have gotten through all the hidden items and secret four digit codes. Holy hell. With no real Internet to look any of these up, it's no wonder I never finished. Great to watch though, especially Brandon just sucker punching Malcom. Thanks!
this game was at my daycare as a kid. I remember always dying for some reason the save file was really far but it was stuck at the part just before the ice cave where the wizard straight up blasts you. I forget what to do but i saw someone do it once. i also distinctly remember the poison apples lol
I love the music, the graphics, and the overall presentation of the game, everything except the impossibly difficult puzzles that they throw in at random intervals; puzzles so mind-boggingly cryptic that you would need a player's guide just to advance! Shame really!
I couldn't even get past the first forest back in the day, without walkthrough available. On the other hand, I could enjoy better Hand of fate and Malcolm's revenge, albeit with walkthroughs.
Ok, it’s been a long time, and I’ve read the comments...I’m here, asking, about Loom TM. ;o) And remind me, which game was Murray in? I also didn’t get the Xantham gum reference. Do tell!
Played it through for the first time only recently (I beat Hand of Fate -my introduction to the series - about 25 years ago). The infamous maze section is actually not that impossible to get through, if you map it out as you go along. However, I WAS forced to consult a walkthrough at the end on the couple of puzzles (the bookshelves and the musical instrument one) whose solutions are so insanely random and obtuse they are outright sadistic in their difficulty! Sheesh...
A truly magical game, kind of a shame that they added the caves, I played it when I was like 5 and my brain was clever enough to get to the caves but the caves just scared me and seemed impossible, I didnt have the brilliant idea of making my own map back then, I basically just gave up. The game is perfect up to the caves and then it felt a bit mazey and rushed later on.
