King's Quest IV: What would you change?

[Damar]

I don't know why people joke about this.  If you can't trust the Companion, then the whole King's Quest world falls apart!  Falls apart, I say!  We need our professional, Sierra approved, totes canon fan fiction!  Screw what's in the games!  What's in the Companion is where it's really at!

I'd agree a KQ4 remake should do without the looping map.  It should also, now that I think about it, completely do away with swimming to Genesta's island in the first place.  She brought you here, she should provide a little boat for you.  That would make it clear that you're supposed to explore the ocean.  You can have your little boat and if you go too far, the game could warn you to head back before having a death where you're blown off course or some such.  And, once you have the fish and the feather, the next time you go out on the open ocean, the whale can be programmed to swallow you, little boat and all, thereby taking the random appearance out of the equation.  It would be up to you to swim to Genesta for the finale.

Oh, and since there's not much pedantic nerdery in this topic, perhaps I can add some in my own, little way.  The witches are the Graeae Sisters from Greek Myth, whereas Cupid (and the architecture of the pool) are actually Roman.  So there's not a connection.  Now if the game called Cupid by his correct Greek name of Eros, well, then maybe there could be a connection.  I hope that this was pedantic enough.  It's about all I can manage, not having read the Companion (and being that this isn't a Star Trek topic).

[DawsonJ]

If Lolotte is shot, not by Cupid's arrow of Love, but, by Eros' Arrows - yeah, I know they sound similar - what kind of result would Lolotte have? Maybe not appropriate for a KQ game.

[Delling]

If Lolotte is shot, not by Cupid's arrow of Love, but, by Eros' Arrows - yeah, I know they sound similar - what kind of result would Lolotte have? Maybe not appropriate for a KQ game.

Actually... about the same... Cupiditas/Cupidus,-a,-um is NOT far off the mark from what we mean when we use "eros" in the modern sense (cf. "erotic"); case and poiont--"cupidus" includes such terms as "wanton", "lecherous", and "desirous".

The necessity for the scene in KQ4 is the modern idea of what it means to be struck by Cupid's arrows, not the classical one. (and the fact that we all would find it weird for either Lolotte or the Wicked Witch of the West (who Lolotte totes isn't a proxy for at all in any way) to fall madcap, rom-com head-over-heels in love with anyone. )

Oh, and since there's not much pedantic nerdery in this topic, perhaps I can add some in my own, little way.  The witches are the Graeae Sisters from Greek Myth, whereas Cupid (and the architecture of the pool) are actually Roman.  So there's not a connection.  Now if the game called Cupid by his correct Greek name of Eros, well, then maybe there could be a connection.  I hope that this was pedantic enough.  It's about all I can manage, not having read the Companion (and being that this isn't a Star Trek topic).

Eros as the son of Ares and Aphrodite, sure. However, the Greek god Eros as personification of same has quite the history... much of which does not involve being a proto-cherub-y thing (For instance, he/it is present at the beginning of the world in some theogonies).

Cupid however is the Roman equivalent largely only of the son of Ares and Aphrodite, a point made clearer given his form which is a very Rennaissance/artistic idea of same. (In other words: making him "Cupid" and portraying him as they did cuts down on other mythologically feasible interpretations. )

[Lambonius]

I'd like to see the infamous KQ4 nude code implemented.

[Bludshot]

Was that some kind of rumor?

[KatieHal]

And you complain about adding things that don't feel they belong in KQ! 

[MikPal]

They already put a rap in it, so why not some extra?

[Bludshot]

Wow.  That is painful.

[Datadog]

Needs more bling.

[DawsonJ]

I thought the BEAM ME trick was cool. 

[Blackthorne]

Rosella really should have been poppin' and lockin' on some cardboard.



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