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Kingdom O' Magic is a Video Game released by SCi in 1996. It is a comic Point And Click Adventure Game , or as stated in the manual first published in 1876 under the title "101 fun things To Do with Trolls". However the version on CD-ROM is specially calibrated for short people with red hair. The game is a parody of J. R. R. Tolkien 's Middle-earth , as seen in the names of some of the places in the game Rivendull, Minar Tragedy etc. It was designed by Fergus McNeill who became famous during the eighties for games such as '' Bored Of The Rings '' (influenced by, but not adapted from, the Harvard Lampoon book) and ''The Boggit''. KOM should have been released for four different systems: MS-DOS , Sega Saturn (never released), Sony PlayStation (never released), Apple Macintosh (never released). CHARACTERS ;Thidney the Lizard Bloke, voiced by John Sessions . :"A seven-feet tall bright green lizard, with cherry disposition and a super tail! Thidney enjoys action movies, sport and drinking massive quantities of ale. He isn't brilliant at casting spells but, in his favour, he can sustain a lot of blows to the head with virtually no noticeable change to his mental ability." ;Shah-Ron the Girlie, voiced by Lani Minella . :5"9, very intelligent, and built like a babe from planet Comely, she's a go-getting girl who has no desire to work with children or old people, and who hates all animals, especially the cute furry ones. Highley skilled at magic, she has little interest in more physical aspect of combat. QUESTS
OVERVIEW http://www.lysator.liu.se/~ekman/en/article1.html Neither the protagonists nor the quests are pastiches on ''The Lord of the Rings''. The parody instead rests on the other characters of the game and their surroundings. For instance, we find such immortal legendary figures as The High Steward of Minar Tragedy, Don Elrondo of Rivendull and Queen Galadrag of De-Lorean. The game world feels quite alive with lots of characters moving around. There are frequent battles between karate elves and ringwraiths, for instance. You can talk with almost all the characters in the game, that is those that do not attack on sight. Conversation is handled by allowing you one of three choices at different points in the conversation. Depending on what choice you make the conversation takes a new direction. This is rather much like the old 80's game Law of the West if anyone remembers that. Battle is not one of the game's strong sides. While use of magic is OK of sorts, hand to hand combat tends to be kind of silly. You attack someone, you fight for a brief time and then he or she walks away as if nothing had happened, perhaps even approaching you for a chat. HINTS Some fun things to try outhttp://www.hellonearth.com/hints/komplete.html
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