7.5
I overall enjoyed my time with episode 4, but as I mentioned earlier, it just feels like each game offers a different experience. Not that this is a bad thing, but the gameplay and what to expect just sort of feels all over the place
King's Quest: Chapter Four - Snow Place Like Home
The Odd Gentlemen · Sep 27, 2016
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In his latest adventure, King Graham recounts the time he had to rescue Prince Alexander from Queen Icebella's Frozen Castle.
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- 7.9It felt like the pacing was done rather well, and it seems The Odd Gentlemen have truly hit their stride this time. Only time will tell just what will happen to Graham and his family, both in the past and the present. Will Daventry get a new King, or Queen? What’s going to happen to Manny? Stay tuned for the final chapter, it’s sure to be a doozy.
- The puzzle design misses the cleverness that made the previous chapters so much fun, rendering the penultimate chapter an extreme disappointment as a game, doubly so as the previous chapter was the best in the series. It appears that the pattern is that the odd numbered chapters are superior to the even ones. That’s fine; it just means that Chapter 5 is something worth anticipating.
- 5.5Time will tell how the story concludes, but Snow Place Like Home is the weak link in the King’s Quest chain, with weak environments, terrible puzzles, and a lack of any real immersion in the narrative choices as Chapter Four gives players the cold shoulder.
- Episodic games can be tough to evaluate without seeing the story as a whole, since effective storytelling relies on narrative peaks and valleys. I don't expect every chunk of a multipart tale to knock my socks off, but this abrupt shift in density and quality of puzzles is tough to ignore. I'm hopeful that the series is able to conclude on a high point, and that this was just an unfortunate misfire.
- 9.0I think the most understated element of the new King's Quest though is that we get to see Graham grow up before our eyes -- from a young runt to a wise kingly figure on his death bed. It's a scope that we really don't see that often, contrasted with adventure games that typically take place across the span of a few days or weeks. King's Quest: Snow Place Like Home might be influenced too greatly by modern titles that are essentially interactive novels, but I'm more than willing to see this through until the end.
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