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This article's does not adequately key points of its contents. Please consider expanding the lead to of all important aspects of the article. Please discuss this issue on the article's. (April 2016) King's Quest: Mask of Eternity Sierra Studios Director(s) Mark Seibert Mark Seibert Jason Piel Roberta Williams Mark Seibert Series Release Retail December 1998 Digital September 18, 2010 / Mode(s) King's Quest: Mask of Eternity (also known as King's Quest VIII: Mask of Eternity ) is a hybrid and developed and published by in 1998. It was the eighth official game in the series, the first and only game in the main series where the main character is neither King Graham nor a member of his family, as well as the first in the series to use a full 3D engine as opposed to the 2D cartoon or pixel style of the earlier games and the first to omit the sequel numbering system on box artwork and title screen.

Another menu along the bottom of the screen includes information concerning level, character experience, curative items, potions offering different abilities. As well as the two current weapons, and armor. On the rightside of the menu is the interface for the grappeling hook item, and rocks. The cursor itself was dynamic, and could change into four different types of cursors depending on actions. The primary cursor is the Play Cursor, which functions much like the cursor in KQVII, it is used to; look, take, talk and do. Like in KQVII, picking up an item from inventory switches the game to an Inventory Cursor. This cursor shows an image of the item picked up, and allows the player click it on something else like in KQVII.

King's Quest: Mask of Eternity, written and designed by Roberta Williams and released in 1998 by Sierra Studios, is the eighth, and currently the final, official. King's Quest VIII: Mask of Eternity (aka King's Quest: Mask of Eternity, King's Quest 8: Mask of Eternity, and abbreviated as KQ8), is a '3D Adventure' released in 1998, it is.

Next is the Sword Cursor, much like the one seen at the end of (during the Alhazred sword battle), it is used for combat in the game. The final cursor is the Arrow Cursor, which lets the player click on enemies from a distance, and fire projectiles. The game was designed primarily to be played in third person mode, but also offers a first person mode for those who want to use it. The first person mode was primarily put into the game, to allow players a chance to better look around or get closeups of things the screen. But it can be used to play the game in most instances, except during character interactions.

The mirror goes on to show the kingdom's only hope, the lowly peasant and knight, Connor of Daventry from a nearby village. He is shown chatting with his neighbor Sarah, when a storm arises and a piece of the mask falls at his feet.

He picks it up, and turns around to find Sarah had been turned to stone. The unleashed magic energy turned all mortals in the world to stone, including King Graham. With that the Mirror ends its vision. Early on in the game, the half-stone wizard that Connor encounters tells him about the Mask of Eternity, Connor's destiny, and conjures for him a magic map that shows all explored areas and allows Connor to teleport between lands once the teleportation sites in each land (except for the Realm of the Sun) have been discovered. With knowledge of his Quest, Connor made his way to Castle Daventry to check on his liege and the royal family, finding Graham and the rest of the inhabitants of the castle turned to stone.

He vowed that he would save king Graham and queen Valanice, their family, and the rest of the inhabitants of Daventry, or die trying. The game ends with Connor rising to the top of the Realm of the Sun with the restored Mask.

A beam of blue light shines on the Mask, seeming to restore its power and it sends out a wave of energy that restores everything including the Kingdom of Daventry to life. Sarah is restored.

King Graham newly restored looks on proudly at his hero in the Magic Mirror. The game ends with the Archons being released from their stone prisons and joining Connor who triumphantly lifts his sword into the air. Characters.

Connor: A lowly tanner, painter and knight of Daventry (much like the young Sir Graham in ). Though not of noble birth, he rises above his lowly status to save his kingdom and the world, becoming a great hero in the process. Connor is the subject of several ancient prophecies concerning saving the world. Over the course of the adventure he earns many titles based on his fulfillment of prophecy and/or deeds, these include; Sir Knight, Champion, Sir Champion, The One, Chosen One, Champion of Champions, Champion Eternal, The Deliver, Enlightened One, Incorruptible One, Champion of Light, Upholder, True Upholder, Upholder of Law and Order, Victorious One, Exalted One, Champion of Righteousness, Righteous One, and Anointed One.

Connor begins his adventure wearing a short brown tunic, green pants, a belt, and high boots. It is a costume very similar to that worn by King Graham during his adventures (minus the adventurer's cap), and Alexander wore in KQ5. But he quickly upgrades to various suits of armor, until he obtains the Armor of Light (inspired by biblical ).

The armor, along with the Sword and Shield of Truth, and immortality given by the Chalice of Order (inspired by the ), Connor is able to overcome the powers of the evil Lucreto, and banish him to the Abyss. Lucreto: Not much is known about Lucreto except that before his decline into evil he was the head of the Archons, charged with protecting the Mask of Eternity, the Global Icon of Truth, Light and Order. Indeed, Lucreto had been the head Archon, and through use of dark and powerful magics, he shattered the Mask. Its pieces were scattered throughout different parts of the world of Daventry. As a result, Chaos reigned, and creatures of darkness were allowed to roam free in the world. Lucreto was defeated in battle with the hero Connor, whom the Mask had deemed its Champion Eternal, and was plunged into a magic portal.

It was stated in the game, because he was an immortal Archon, that Lucreto could not be killed, but that pushing him through the portal to the black Abyss would be the only way to vanquish him forever. Lucreto is given several titles based on his role in the prophecy, these include; The Father, the Pretender, the Master, and the Evil One. For example, he is 'The Father' of demons and abominations.

Lucreto's character and backstory is inspired by the story of. Graham: The king of Daventry, and one of its great heroes in past years (and past games). He is now older, and is concerned with the Kingdom's day-to-day affairs such as making sure there was a surplus of grain in the silos. He and his minister witness the cataclysm through the Magic Mirror and their only hope Connor, but are quickly turned to stone by the release of magic. Connor later enters Castle Daventry to check on his king. While there he finds a painting of King Graham wearing his classic adventurer's cap (discovering a hidden key behind it), and moving further into the castle he finds the king and his ministers stone forms. Connor vowed to rescue his king.

The end result of Connor's adventure involves Graham being restored along with the Kingdom of Daventry, witnessing the young hero standing triumphantly in the Temple of the Sun from the mirror. Development. See also: Mask of Eternity went through two or three main development phases, in which ' ideas changed, the engine was finalized, and the graphics were finalized. In Fall 1996, Williams showed off some of her first screenshots of the game's levels, a few enemies, and the placeholder for Connor. Video showing the level development of this version of the game was included in the Roberta William's Anthology. There are scenes for two or three levels that were cut from the final game (including an undersea area, and a green forested area with a village). By July 1997, the game had gone into its final phase, and appeared much like it does in the final product.

Roberta's team was forced to build a new engine from scratch based on an earlier version of 3Space (as was behind schedule finishing the updated version of the 3Space engine for their own games). The first gameplay footage of this version appeared in the King's Quest Collection II. This version was completed until December 1998. Roberta Williams classified KQ8 as either 'Adventure' or within a possible new genre, a '3D Adventure', and it went beyond traditional 'Adventures' (with maybe the exception of other hybrid adventures such as, and ).

As a '3D Adventure' it retained a point-and-click puzzle system of traditional adventure games, but also included action-adventure elements (such as avoiding traps and rolling boulders). The game includes many actions and puzzles that could only be done in 3D, many based on physics, rock tossing, jumping, climbing, or 3D combat.

This change or 'evolution' in the direction of adventure games was part of Roberta and ' attempts to innovate the genre and prevent it from becoming stagnant and 'mediocre'; it represented what would have been the future of 'adventure games' had Ken Williams continued to own the company. This was the second King's Quest game (counting the original (AGI release)), to not have a numeral in the title upon initial release. But it followed a pattern in several other previous Sierra games that were released with a lack of numerals but were intended to be continuations of the series. These included (a.k.a. Quest for Glory IV), (a.k.a. Police Quest IV), (a.k.a. Police Quest V), (a.k.a.

Police Quest VI), (a.k.a. Leisure Suit Larry II), (a.k.a. Leisure Suit Larry 7), (a.k.a.

EcoQuest 2), (a.k.a. Gabriel Knight 2), and (a.k.a.

Laura Bow II). Each of these games retained their numerical title within marketing materials or within the file structure (and/or manuals). References to it being the eighth game appear in the file structure (and manual) and the game was marketed as KQ8 on the official website, developer interviews and website and other places. The updated 'gamecard/boxart' for digital release now lists the game as King's Quest VIII: Mask of Eternity.

Release Originally released in retail in 1998 and re-released in 's 2006 King's Quest Collection, the game has been digitally re-released by as part of the King's Quest 7+8 pack through (September 2010) and patched to work on and 32 and 64bit. Although this release was a digital download only, it has a bug and will not run unless an is present on the computer (or use of virtual drive like ). A is available for retail copies of the game that allows them to run on modern computers and computers without optical drives (such as a netbook), and it fixes several cutscene lockups (it is incompatible with the GoG release). Reception Reception Review scores Publication Score 86% 66% 89/100 King's Quest: Mask of Eternity was released to generally positive but mixed reviews (a general improvement over the scores received by the previous game, ). The controversial addition of combat mechanics into the KQ franchise was praised by many, and criticized by others.

The game was one of the best selling adventures that year, outselling 2-to-1. Mission impossible rogue nation. Reviews for King's Quest: Mask of Eternity tended to be positive, with most at 70% or higher, while many were above 90%, and only a few dipped as low as 10%. The game earned Adventure Game of the Year at Digital Entertainment On-line. Mask of Eternity was a finalist for 's 1998 'Best Adventure' award, which ultimately went to and (tie). And the likewise nominated Mask of Eternity as the best adventure game of 1998, but it lost these awards again to Grim Fandango.

The Academy also nominated it in the 'Outstanding Achievement in Character or Story Development' category, which went to. Legacy King's Quest: Mask of Eternity inspired a 12-minute musical 'sequel' suite, called Daventry Suite by Donald M. Wilson, Professor Emeritus. The multi-movement work for wind ensemble was divided into three pieces, 'Sarah's Song', 'Connor's Triumphal Return to Daventry', and 'Celebration with Ringing Peal'. Wilson's piece was featured by Sierra On-Line as 'the first musical work of extended scope to be inspired by a computer game.' Director of 2015's reimagined, said Mask of Eternity is canon: ' King’s Quest VIII exists. We're not doing a lot with Connor – we might have a cameo fit into it – but we're focused on the core family.'

Ultimately Connor did not make it into the game, however, elements of King's Quest 8 did make it into the game including references to at least ice orcs and spriggans. References. Archived from on 2004-12-06. Retrieved 2016-04-21. From the original on 2012-10-22. Retrieved 2016-04-21.

User manual, pg 17. From the original on 2016-03-04.

Retrieved 2016-04-21. Schneider, Jan. Archived from on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-04-21. Access My Library. From the original on 2012-10-23.

Retrieved 2016-04-21. From the original on 2016-04-28. Retrieved 2016-04-21. From the original on 2016-03-05.

Retrieved 2016-04-21. Bickham, Jes (February 1999). Archived from on February 14, 2002.

Nguyen, Thierry (April 1, 1999). Archived from on August 16, 2000. Presley, Paul. Archived from on May 31, 2007.

Poole, Steve (March 1999). Archived from on March 8, 2000. Backer, Andy (January 19, 1999). Archived from on July 9, 2003. Staff (March 1999).

' King's Quest: Mask of Eternity'. From the original on 2009-02-02. Retrieved 2016-04-21. Archived from on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2016-04-21.

Archived from on 2001-04-30. Retrieved 2016-04-21. Archived from on 2001-12-02. Retrieved 2016-04-21. Staff (April 1999). ' Computer Gaming World 's 1999 Premier Awards; CGW Presents the Best Games of 1998'. (177): 90, 93, 96–105.

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Retrieved 2016-04-21. Retrieved 2016-04-21. Juba, Joe (2015-07-28). From the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2016-04-21. External links.

at. at the Sierra Help Pages.

Contents. Gameplay The game combines a single multipurpose context-sensitive cursor from, and a variation of the standard item inventory along the top, in addition it also includes information about total mask pieces collected, and total gold coins. Another menu along the bottom of the screen includes information concerning level, character experience, curative items, potions offering different abilities.

As well as the two current weapons, and armor. On the rightside of the menu is the interface for the grappeling hook item, and rocks.

The cursor itself was dynamic, and could change into four different types of cursors depending on actions. The primary cursor is the Play Cursor, which functions much like the cursor in KQVII, it is used to; look, take, talk and do.

Like in KQVII, picking up an item from inventory switches the game to an Inventory Cursor. This cursor shows an image of the item picked up, and allows the player click it on something else like in KQVII. Next is the Sword Cursor, much like the one seen at the end of (during the Alhazred sword battle), it is used for combat in the game. The final cursor is the Arrow Cursor, which lets the player click on enemies from a distance, and fire projectiles. The game was designed primarily to be played in third person mode, but also offers a first person mode for those who want to use it. The first person mode was primarily put into the game, to allow players a chance to better look around or get closeups of things the screen. But it can be used to play the game in most instances, except during character interactions.

There are three difficulty levels for combat (Easy, Normal, and Hard). Plot Story The story begins in Castle Daventry with King Graham and his minister talking about the every day affairs of running the country, when the Magic Mirror activates in front of them showing them a bad omen. They witness Lucreto the archarchon of the Realm of the Sun destroy the Mask of Eternity and releasing a wave of energy. The mirror goes on to show the kingdom's only hope, the lowly peasant and knight, Connor of Daventry from a nearby village. He is shown chatting with his neighbor Sarah, when a storm arises and a piece of the mask falls at his feet.

A beam of blue light shines on the Mask, seeming to restore its power and it sends out a wave of energy that restores everything including the Kingdom of Daventry to life. Sarah is restored.

But he quickly upgrades to various suits of armor, until he obtains the Armor of Light (inspired by biblical ). The armor, along with the Sword and Shield of Truth, and immortality given by the Chalice of Order (inspired by the ), Connor is able to overcome the powers of the evil Lucreto, and banish him to the Abyss. Lucreto: Not much is known about Lucreto except that before his decline into evil he was the head of the Archons, charged with protecting the Mask of Eternity, the Global Icon of Truth, Light and Order. Indeed, Lucreto had been the head Archon, and through use of dark and powerful magics, he shattered the Mask.

Its pieces were scattered throughout different parts of the world of Daventry. As a result, Chaos reigned, and creatures of darkness were allowed to roam free in the world. Lucreto was defeated in battle with the hero Connor, whom the Mask had deemed its Champion Eternal, and was plunged into a magic portal.

He is now older, and is concerned with the Kingdom's day-to-day affairs such as making sure there was a surplus of grain in the silos. He and his minister witness the cataclysm through the Magic Mirror and their only hope Connor, but are quickly turned to stone by the release of magic. Connor later enters Castle Daventry to check on his king. While there he finds a painting of King Graham wearing his classic adventurer's cap (discovering a hidden key behind it), and moving further into the castle he finds the king and his ministers stone forms. Connor vowed to rescue his king.

There are scenes for two or three levels that were cut from the final game (including an undersea area, and a green forested area with a village). By July 1997, the game had gone into its final phase, and appeared much like it does in the final product. Roberta's team was forced to build a new engine from scratch based on an earlier version of 3Space (as was behind schedule finishing the updated version of the 3Space engine for their own games). The first gameplay footage of this version appeared in the King's Quest Collection II.

This version was completed until December 1998. Roberta Williams classified KQ8 as either 'Adventure' or within a possible new genre, a '3D Adventure', and it went beyond traditional 'Adventures' (with maybe the exception of other hybrid adventures such as, and ). As a '3D Adventure' it retained a point-and-click puzzle system of traditional adventure games, but also included action-adventure elements (such as avoiding traps and rolling boulders). The game includes many actions and puzzles that could only be done in 3D, many based on physics, rock tossing, jumping, climbing, or 3D combat.

For example, cutting down a tree to block a river from turning the wheel on a mill, or killing an enemy so that it falls and depresses a pressure plate (alternatively a rock could be used). 3D also allowed her to expand on and focus on the exploration element which was one of the main highlights of previous King's Quest games. Other puzzles included the more traditional variety of point-and-click inventory-based puzzles seen in previous games of the series. This change or 'evolution' in the direction of adventure games was part of Roberta and ' attempts to innovate the genre and prevent it from becoming stagnant and 'mediocre'; it represented what would have been the future of 'adventure games' had Ken Williams continued to own the company. This was the second King's Quest game (counting the original (AGI release)), to not have a numeral in the title upon initial release.

But it followed a pattern in several other previous Sierra games that were released with a lack of numerals but were intended to be continuations of the series. These included (a.k.a. Quest for Glory IV), (a.k.a.

Police Quest IV), (a.k.a. Police Quest V), (a.k.a.

Police Quest VI), (a.k.a. Leisure Suit Larry II), (a.k.a. Leisure Suit Larry 7), (a.k.a.

EcoQuest 2), (a.k.a. Gabriel Knight 2), and (a.k.a. Laura Bow II). Each of these games retained their numerical title within marketing materials or within the file structure (and/or manuals).

References to it being the eighth game appear in the file structure (and manual) and the game was marketed as KQ8 on the official website, developer interviews and website and other places. The updated 'gamecard/boxart' for digital release now lists the game as King's Quest VIII: Mask of Eternity. Release Originally released in retail in 1998 and re-released in 's 2006 King's Quest Collection, the game has been digitally re-released by as part of the King's Quest 7+8 pack through (September 2010) and patched to work on and 32 and 64bit. Although this release was a digital download only, it has a bug and will not run unless an is present on the computer (or use of virtual drive like ). A is available for retail copies of the game that allows them to run on modern computers and computers without optical drives (such as a netbook), and it fixes several cutscene lockups (it is incompatible with the GoG release).

Reception Reception Review scores Publication Score 86% 66% 89/100 King's Quest: Mask of Eternity was released to generally positive but mixed reviews (a general improvement over the scores received by the previous game, ). The controversial addition of combat mechanics into the KQ franchise was praised by many, and criticized by others. The game was one of the best selling adventures that year, outselling 2-to-1.

Reviews for King's Quest: Mask of Eternity tended to be positive, with most at 70% or higher, while many were above 90%, and only a few dipped as low as 10%. The game earned Adventure Game of the Year at Digital Entertainment On-line. Mask of Eternity was a finalist for 's 1998 'Best Adventure' award, which ultimately went to and (tie). And the likewise nominated Mask of Eternity as the best adventure game of 1998, but it lost these awards again to Grim Fandango. The Academy also nominated it in the 'Outstanding Achievement in Character or Story Development' category, which went to. Legacy King's Quest: Mask of Eternity inspired a 12-minute musical 'sequel' suite, called Daventry Suite by Donald M.

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Wilson, Professor Emeritus. The multi-movement work for wind ensemble was divided into three pieces, 'Sarah's Song', 'Connor's Triumphal Return to Daventry', and 'Celebration with Ringing Peal'.

Wilson's piece was featured by Sierra On-Line as 'the first musical work of extended scope to be inspired by a computer game.' Director of 2015's reimagined, said Mask of Eternity is canon: ' King’s Quest VIII exists. We're not doing a lot with Connor – we might have a cameo fit into it – but we're focused on the core family.' Ultimately Connor did not make it into the game, however, elements of King's Quest 8 did make it into the game including references to at least ice orcs and spriggans. References. Archived from on 2004-12-06. Retrieved 2016-04-21.

From the original on 2012-10-22. Retrieved 2016-04-21. User manual, pg 17. From the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-04-21.

Schneider, Jan. Archived from on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-04-21.

Access My Library. From the original on 2012-10-23. Retrieved 2016-04-21. From the original on 2016-04-28.

Retrieved 2016-04-21. From the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2016-04-21. Bickham, Jes (February 1999). Archived from on February 14, 2002.

Nguyen, Thierry (April 1, 1999). Archived from on August 16, 2000.

Presley, Paul. Archived from on May 31, 2007. Poole, Steve (March 1999). Archived from on March 8, 2000. Backer, Andy (January 19, 1999). Archived from on July 9, 2003.

Staff (March 1999). ' King's Quest: Mask of Eternity'. From the original on 2009-02-02. Retrieved 2016-04-21.

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Archived from on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2016-04-21. Archived from on 2001-04-30. Retrieved 2016-04-21. Archived from on 2001-12-02.

Retrieved 2016-04-21. Staff (April 1999). ' Computer Gaming World 's 1999 Premier Awards; CGW Presents the Best Games of 1998'. (177): 90, 93, 96–105. Archived from on August 15, 2000. Archived from on November 4, 1999.

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Archived from on October 11, 1999. Archived from on 2016-03-04.

Retrieved 2016-04-21. Retrieved 2016-04-21. Juba, Joe (2015-07-28). From the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2016-04-21. External links. at.

at the Sierra Help Pages.