The Legend of Kyrandia
Westwood Studios released The Legend of Kyrandia: Book One for IBM PC MS-DOS 3.3 in August of 1992. The Legend of Kyrandia is a graphics adventure game that features steamlined interaction and over 100 painterly scenes overlayed by high-quality sprite and scenery animations.
In assuming the role of Brandon, a prince, the object of The Legend of Kyrandia is to defeat the evil Jester, Malcolm, recover the Kyragem, reclaim the throne and save the land of Kyrandia.
The Legend of Kyrandia employs a point-and-click interface, but there is no list of verb commands to choose from. Instead, players simply click on the playfield to walk to a position on the playfield or click on the playfield exit to arrive in an adjacent, contiguous scene. In addition, players click on scenery to receive feedback or click on objects to pick them up and place them into the inventory or onto the playfield from the inventory. Objects can be click-dropped on the protagonist-sprite in order to examine or use them. The feedback is text-based.
Brandon acquires a four-socket amulet into which special abilities are added over the course of the adventure. Once acquired the amulet is embedded to the UI, and magical gem-icons are added to it.
Brandon can be killed. For example, he will slowy turn green and perish if bitten by a snake. In addition, the outcome of the first encounter with Malcolm is random: Malcolm either freezes Brandon in a cube of ice or retreats to his cave, sealing its entrance with a thick sheet of ice.
The Legend of Kyrandia was programmed by Michael Legg, scripted by Scott Bowen, written by Rick "Coco" Gush, drawn by Rick Parks and composed by Frank Klepacki. The 32-color Amiga version was programmed by Bill Stokes.
The Legend of Kyrandia displays in 256-color VGA 320x200. The active drawspace is 304x128. There is no screen-scrolling, the game is flip-screen. A small feedback window gives the current location and item name.
The Legend of Kyrandia requires an i80286-12 MHz CPU and 256K vRAM. For increased speed and improved effects, The Legend of Kyrandia employs 1 meg of XMS RAM.
The Legend of Kyrandia was distributed on 5x 3.5" 1.44MB HD diskettes and extracts and installs to hard disk drive via Westwood Studios Program Installation. The install size is 7.5 megs and consists of 233 files.
The Legend of Kyrandia audio supports MT-32, LAPC-1, AbLib/Gold, Sound Blaster/Pro, 3-voice Tandy and PC Speaker.
The Legend of Kyrandia characters: Brandon the Bold, Malcolm the Jester, Brandywine and Darm, Priestess Brynn, Lady Zanthia the Alchemist and Herman the Handyman.
The Legend of Kyrandia Manual: 34 pages.
The Legend of Kyrandia copy protection: manual reference.
- Chronological List of Graphics Adventure Games IBM PC MS-DOS
- Computer Game Reviews
- History of Computer Games (Master Index)
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