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A bastardization of a once-great game series.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 23 / 27
Date: August 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

What was once a great adventure series was essentially turned into a bad Diablo clone when Cendant took over Sierra Online. In King's Quest 8, you play a Daventry peasant (which, unlike in King's Quest 3, has no relation to the royal family) who curiously speaks like British royalty. As the game begins, the Mask of Eternity is shattered, resulting (among other things) in a bunch of monsters appearing and everyone in the human world turning to stone. Everyone except you, that is; you managed to grab a piece of the Mask as it was happening (alternately, a piece of it scarred your face when you were born - they can't get the story straight). The rest of the game comprises of you fighting monsters and occasionally using various objects to try to get all the pieces of the Mask to restore the worlds.

The graphics are mediocre, even when you take into account the time the game was made. The gameplay is horrendous. Between this, the badly thought-out plot, and its overall betrayal of the series, I wouldn't recommend getting KQ8 except in the interest of completeness (and of seeing the end of the series).

Not Your Traditional King's Quest Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 38 / 40
Date: August 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you're expecting another King's Quest game in the similar style and method of KQ1-7, you're in for a shock on this one. The object of the game is exploring, which is fun, but also involves a lot of Wolfenstein-style shoot-to-kill. It really has little to do with King's Quest in the true Sierra tradition. It's a modern kill-fest set in Daventry.

If you're a true, die-hard fan of the King's Quest series, like I am, you'll buy it to have it. I found it most helpful to play with cheats on (you can find them on the web at a variety of sites) because I am not a true shoot-and-kill type of game player. It allowed me to explore and enjoy the few adventure-game aspects of this game. For those who enjoyed Quest for Glory, it does mimic that series in some small ways.

Mostly, alas, this is Wolfenstein in Daventry. True adventure games in the style of Sierra's Golden Years in the 1980's-1990's are truly a thing of the past.

One of the better games out there.......

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: September 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

OK, so this game isn't like any of the sequels, but it is a fantastic game. I loved the entire journey, all the complex puzzles, and creatures that you met and the scenery was breath-taking. Sure, after several plays I realized a few weak plot points, but it was one of the games that I couldn't stop playing and it's also one of those games that you can play over and over and still enjoy it as much as the first time. This is by-far my favorite King's Quest game and it's a shame they aren't going to make anymore (last I heard). I especially enjoyed the hard fighting and complex puzzles of the "Dimension of Death" realm- which takes up most of your game play. I would say this is mostly a guy's game though, I doubt very many girls or women would like it because of all the fighting sequences. Diehard fans were upset because this was the first King's Quest to offer shoot-to-kill action, I didn't seem to mind it at all. I'm not a violent person; this game didn't make me a violent person. It's just a game and it's a very fun game!! NOTE: there are downloadable patches available that you need - especially for Win XP. Go to sierra.com and click on Community, then click King's Quest series and you'll find the patch information you need.

what can you say

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: October 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I hav been playing Sierra Adventure games for 18 years. I believe I have completed nearly all of their quests; kings quest to Space quest and police quest. All the games are unversial and great fun for the whole family, a rareity theses days. their is not a quest that sierra has produced that is not both great fun and challenging.

Kings Quest Mask of Etermity

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: June 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I was playing Kings Quest long before I played Diablo I, II and expansion. Dieblo is kill, kill, kill or be killed there is no puzzles to solve or quests to under take that takes a little brain power. You just have to find the golden trunk and open it.

In Kings Quest 8 you cannot go to the second land without acheving or solving a puzzle. Each quest has some type of puzzle or manuvers to gain access to it. In the first land you must find the three things so that the wizard can make you a potion to kill the one that is blocking your way.

I think this game is great it takes some thought to accomplish each quest. Myself and my three grandsons have worn the cd out and I am searching for one, to play on my new that they are giving me for Father's Day.

Not what I expected

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Having followed the King's Quest games as they were appearing late 80's/early 90's, I have become a huge fan. The fact that the games did not fall into the fantasy cliche of the dark sword and sorcery junk that floods the market made the games truly a treasure. However, as others have noted, King's Quest 8 was a step in a different direction. They move away from the Royal Family (a mistake in my mind; why should we care for these characters, having only seen a short introduction?). The entire game feels like a fantastical version of Doom. Gone are the witty remarks and likeable characters... everything that Conner says is hugely (over)dramatic, that is when he is not being attacked by punch-throwing mummies (??) or some other hybrid monster. In closing, I would much rather have the early two-dimensional adventures of Graham than the sophisticated graphics of Mask of Eternity.

I'm editing this to give it two stars. I was feeling far too generous when I first wrote this.

Mask of Eternity

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: September 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is an awesome game. I can only think of a few flaws in the game it is so good. The level difficulty is slightly odd as the second world (The Dimension of Death) is the hardest part in the game. Overall it is a wonderful game set in the a wonderfully created fantasy world. I deffinately recommend it as a compelling and delightfully contrast RPG/Action game.

A lower score than 1?! Tis beyond my reach!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: March 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

What a load of rubbish. If you are buying this expecting a King's Quest game, then please, save your money.

King's Quest was a loveable adventure title, made in the eighties by a woman called Roberta Williams. It revolved around a man called Graham, who in King's Quest 2, became King of Daventry. The story evolved through seven King's Quest games, each one a delight.

This "Mask of Eternity" should not be allowed to be considered a King;s Quest. Many people bought it for the fact that it says "King's Quest". Many people were bitterly disappointed. This wasn't the game they wanted. Gone was the elaborate storyline of King's Quest games gone by. Introduced was a random man by the name of Connor. Where was our beloved Royal Family? Condensed down to a mere cameo of King Graham.

Please, if you buy this game, I recommend you get a fat black permanent marker and cross out the King's Quest part of the title, because it isn't a King's Quest. It's nowhere near it. If you like this sort of game, buy it. If you're looking for another act of King's Quest genius, you won't find it here. Avoid this game. Please.

Nowhere Near King's Quest

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: March 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I understand Sierra felt the need to venture into the 3d action part of gaming, but they didn't have to soil the noble King's Quest series in order to break into the market. It was a stupid trick to pull, I am glad that when I purchased this game it was only for 10 bucks in a bargain bin. I played the whole game through, and was thoroughly disappointed at each step. After running into an annoying bug on an old computer of mine after finally reaching close to the end, I replayed it again on a new computer more recently, and was annoyed to see the disappointing and short ending. They didn't even have the decency to put in a nice, long, conclusive ending like other King's Quest games. And the excess violence and poor excuses for puzzles are a disgrace. If you should buy this game, please do not mistake it for a true King's Quest, it is only a mockery. And play the other seven *real* King's Quest games instead.

Not an altogether poor game, but not a King's Quest game.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: March 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The final game of the King's Quest series is definitely the worst installment. I am hesistant to even call it a King's Quest game, due to the fact that it fails to adhere to almost all of the fundamental rules of the series. It is not even the same genre as all the previous games. King's Quest 1-7 were all adventure games. With King's Quest 8, Sierra decided to take the series in a different direction, and make it a hack-n-slash action game.

Despite the fact that in every previous King's Quest game the protagonist was a member of the royal family, Mask of Eternity begins when every person in Daventry (the land in which the royal family dwells (actually, just King Graham and Queen Valanice)) prompty turns into stone, leaving only a peasant named Connor to save the world. While all other KQ games have awarded the player for finding non-violent solutions to problems, Connor must carve a path through the corpses of his many enemies, mutilating them all in gruesome ways (certain foes are only defeated by decapitation, etc.)

But I go on. Mask of Eternity is not in actuality a terrible game. I'm sure it could appeal to many people. But for it to bear the coveted "King's Quest" title is borderline blasphemy. Don't hesitate to purchase if you like the Doom-esque "not much plot- kill everything that moves" genre. But don't ever mistake it for a King's Quest game.

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