AGDInteractive - Sierra Adventure Game Remakes Forum

So one thing I've noticed is that in KQ3 Redux, Daventry is FAR more devastated than it seemed in the original KQ3 or IA's remake. It's basically a lifeless, rocky, desert wasteland that's on fire. Pretty much Hell on Earth.

I wonder what made you guys decide to depict its misfortunes in such an extreme manner. I thought the original KQ3 was far subtler in depicting the gloom: a few charred trees, a chasm created by earthquakes, dried up wells and moats that suggest drought, a castle that needs repair, a lack of beautiful things like wildflowers. Still, though, a few trees are alive, and the sky is blue and the grass remains green. IA's remake, though it added a reddish twilit sky, still kept Daventry's grass and shrubs intact. It's certainly not ON FIRE.

With the original KQ3 and in IA's remake, I could believe that, given time, Daventry would recover and return to prosperity on its own. Whereas in Redux, the land is so hellish that it needs a magical green pinball of salvation to restore its fruitfulness. At one point Valanice says "flames still lick at our crops" and I wonder, "What crops? There's no living vegetation anywhere!"

So what was behind this choice?

Early Daventry shots weren't the burning hell-on-earth that exists in the game now. But a peak at the whole thing had already been shown during the balcony scene in KQ2+. The final Daventry areas were tailored to be consistent with that.

I like the idea that Alexander arrived with not much time to spare to stop Daventry's imminent destruction. I never imagined that the land had been on fire for too prolonged a period.

One change I liked was the fact that Redux took out Rosella's dialog from the original that talked about repetitive maiden sacrifices, and how Rosella decided to offer herself up to the dragon.