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thya...@sol.com.br wrote:

> >>>>> My incompetence? I think not. If I failed to choose the right lamp in a
> totally random puzzle, than it means I wasn't very lucky. If you got the right
> one the first time you played, than congratulations, chances of that happening
> are of 20%, since there are ABSOLUTELY NO CLUES to what lamp you should be
> needing by the end of the game. RW's lousy game design denotes her
> incompetence, not mine. When you get stuck in a Lucas Arts or Jane Jensen
> game, it's because you can't figure out what to do, not because the game let
> you screw things up by, say, letting you procceed without a required item.

	I enjoyed playing King's Quest VI.  It's not my favorite adventure
game, but it was entertaining.  I was able to finish the game without a
walkthrough.  I did use a walkthrough later, but that was just to see
the different endings.
	It's been a while since I've played it, but I never had a problem with
the logic involved in solving the puzzles.  If I remember correctly, the
lamp choice is not random.  Before you choose a lamp, there is a
cutscene in which you see the lamp that the genie uses.  So I just
picked it's duplicate.  I thought it might come in handy later.  I don't
think you need the lamp to win the game.  I think one of the endings
accounts for this, but I could be wrong about that.
	KQ V was a totally different story.  I thought that game was bad.  The
worst being the damn throw the pie in the face of the yeti puzzle.

> And I found the whole game very sub-par, starting with the childish
> save-the-princess story.

	It's a King's Quest game.  What did you expect?  It's based on fairy
tales, and the save the princess story is pretty much a standard.  Why
did you even buy the game if you knew before you played it that you were
not going to like the story?
-- 
Ed Polanco (esp...@psu.edu)