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Thayer's Quest (Video Game)

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Thayer's Quest is a 1984 fully-animated laserdisc game in the style of Dragon's Lair or Space Ace, but with somewhat more interactivity.The player controls Thayer Alcanred, an apprentice magician and last of a magically-blessed bloodline. His mentor tasks him with finding the pieces of the almighty Hand of Quoid before the evil wizard Sorsabal. The game's main goal, however, is to deal with Sorsabal's pawn, Torlock, who killed the rightful king and queen and now sits on their throne. Under his despotic reign the land has become a place of chaos where where evil lurks around every corner.A sequel incorporating the second half of Thayer's quest was planned, but the developers went bankrupt before it could be completed (probably owing to the system it was created for going for something in the ballpark of $2500). When CD-based consoles and computers made the format more accessible in the 1990s, Thayer's Quest was given a facelift (creator Rick Dyer thought the original game was "too 70's") and rereleased as Kingdom: The Far Reaches. The second game completing the story, Kingdom: Shadoan, was also finally completed and released not long after.Unlike games such as Dragon's Lair and Space Ace, which only required the player to tell their character where to move or when to attack in accordance with the animation, Thayer's Quest was a full-on Adventure Game. The player had complete control over Thayer's movement from area to area, accumulating items to let him defeat enemies and escape traps.
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All There in the Manual: The game has a very elaborate backstory which is barely contextually mentioned during the game. Also, listen carefully to every NPC. If you get stuck, thank your impatience.
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The Virus: Getting caught by the lizardmen turns Thayer into a lizardman.
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Failure Is the Only Option: Can't find the healing point and your pouch is overfilled? No worries! Make Thayer die and he will respawn with not even a single scratch. Sometimes, it's clearly averted, though... Try to use a spell which is obligatory to use to beat the game in the wrong place and you lose it forever. Seriously.
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Karma Meter: Doesn't really influence the gameplay but rather shows your rank after you beat the game or lose all your lives.
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Sometimes, it's clearly averted, though... Try to use a spell which is obligatory to use to beat the game in the wrong place and you lose it forever. Seriously.
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Elemental Embodiment: At one point in the desert, Thayer must find three element-based monsters: water, earth, and fire.
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No Fair Cheating
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No Fair Cheating: The Hedge Maze bars the use of magic. Using the Spell of Seeing to view the correct path will kill you on the spot.
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Power Crystal: The Crystal of Lothar/Kaldar, which can be used to fend off various dangers (although there's not much indication of which ones it does and doesn't work against).
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Plot Coupon That Does Something
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Plot Coupon That Does Something: The ultimate goal of the game is to assemble the Black Mace, Orb of Mobus, the Hunting Horn, the Dagger of Arne and the Crown of Malric. Each are used to solve puzzles on their own too.
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Animation Bump: The Far Reaches has a few original scenes not recycled from Thayer's Quest, like the opening cutscene and some new puzzles. Even through CD-ROM compression, the animation looks noticeably newer.
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One-Hit-Point Wonder: Two, actually, but if you lost one, there were only two places to restore your health: at the waterfall and the monk in Illes. Thankfully, they're not hard to find.
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Big Bad: Sorsabal the Evil Sorcerer.
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Dumb Muscle: The guard of the bridge which will lead us to the endspiel, according to his body proportions, voice and... oh hell, his face. On the other side, he knows every law of The Elder Kings.
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Stripped to the Bone: Quite a few of the deaths results in Thayer melting or rotting to the bone.
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Infinity +1 Sword: The strongest weapon in the first game is the Blood Sword of the Elder Kings. Which kind of weirdly is not one of the pieces of the almighty artifact you're questing to find, and is a more effective weapon than the piece that is a weapon, the Black Mace. Played more straight in the second game where you find the Dagger of Arne, which is both a piece of the Hand and works better than the Blood Sword.
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MacGuffin: The Hand of Quoid, split onto five relics.
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The Many Deaths of You
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The Many Deaths of You: Make the wrong move or face a trap with only one point of health and you're a goner.
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Have a Nice Death: Return to the bridge guy after you give him the Silver Wheat and you'll get his job. Like, forever, kept there by laser bars. Alternately, use The Spell of Seeing in the Hedge Maze and the maze will PWN you for using magic in this place, while Isonbey laments, "When will they learn not to use magic here?!?"
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Adaptation Name Change: Pretty much every character got a new name for the Kingdom remake: Thayer became Lathan, Druce became Daelon, Quoid became Mobus, and so on.
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Bag of Holding
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Bag of Holding: Thayer starts his quest with a magic pouch to carry whatever he finds, though as Druce points out, even the pouch has a limit, which goes down more when he's wounded.
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Resignations Not Accepted: The bridge to the Far Reaches is cursed, trapping its guardian in place. The only way to leave the job is for someone to return after having paid the toll, which makes them the new guardian.
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Filming for Easy Dub: Almost every scene is animated with the speaking characters off-screen, turned away, or otherwise obscured, allowing them to be easily redubbed with new dialogue the second time you see them. The sequel continues this tradition. For example, when you're trying to bargain with the pirate captain for passage to an island where one of the relics is hidden, you can choose from several of the things in your inventory. If they're not the right one, you don't actually see Lathan's hands to see what he's offering, and the pirate's only response is a generic, "Don't need that."
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