History VideoGame / QuestForGloryI

* FallingChandelierOfDoom: How you neutralize [[Film/TheThreeStooges Die Drei Knochelkopfen]].

* BalefulPolymorph:
** Baba Yaga turns the hero into a frog.
** The Dryad turns you into a stag or a flower if you piss her off.
** As you discover during the game, a Kobold turned [[spoiler:the missing Baronet]] into a bear.

** The biggest is that it's the only game in the series in which it's possible to complete the game ''without'' actually defeating the main villain.[[note]]If the player goes to the castle after rescuing Elsa, rather than confronting Baba Yaga, he'll still be treated to a victory celebration and the game will end. However it will be noted that you've failed to break the curse on the valley.[[/note]] For that matter, it's the only game where the Big Bad isn't ''killed'' in the final confrontation, as the Hero instead subjects Baba Yaga to a BalefulPolymorph.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

** The Fighter can drop his shield, allowing him to use magic in combat.[[note]]Carrying your shield prevents you from casting spells when on the combat screen.[[/note]] The next three games will not allow you to do so.[[note]]Technically the second game ''allows'' you to drop your shield, but that makes it impossible to fight Khaveen at the end of the game, making the game potentially {{Unwinnable}}.[[/note]] It's not until ''Quest for Glory V'' that it's possible for a Fighter to fight without one.

* AllTrollsAreDifferent: The ones here are big, blue, dumb, and violent. They CarryABigStick (in the original) or [[DropTheHammer a big hammer]] (in the remake) with which to smash you, and plenty of coin. You can also loot [[EyeOfNewt their beards]] to give to the Healer for a reward.

** After dancing with the fairies in [[LostWoods Spielburg Forest]], try taking their mushrooms or stepping into their ring and see what happens. You should probably save beforehand.

''Quest For Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero?'' (formerly called ''Hero's Quest''), is the first entry in the ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' series of games. Your character, the latest graduate of the [[CorrespondenceCourse Famous Adventurer's Correspondence School]], [[JumpedAtTheCall answers a newspaper ad]] from the valley of Spielburg, which is in dire need for a hero, "No Experience Required".

''Quest For Glory: So You Want To Be A Hero?'' (formerly called ''Hero's Quest''), is the first entry in the ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' series of games. Your character, the latest graduate of the [[CorrespondenceCourse Famous Adventurer's Correspondence School]], [[JumpedAtTheCall answers a newspaper ad]] from the valley of Spielburg, which is in dire need for a hero, "No Experience Required".

* {{Animorphism}}: In the first game Baba Yaga turns the hero into a frog. Also the Dryad turns you into a stag or a flower if you piss her off.
** As you discover during the game, a Kobold turned [[spoiler:the missing Baronet]] into a bear.

-->Thus the hero from the East
-->Freed the man from form of beast
-->Saved beauty from the brigand's band
-->And forced the Ogress to flee the land.
-->The brigand band has been dispersed
-->Their treasure has been reimbursed.
-->And so with Kattas and Abdulla Doo
-->You bid the valley a fond adieu.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Troll sweat.
* ExplosiveBreeder: The Antwerp, literally.

** The Fighter can drop his shield, allowing him to use magic in combat.[[note]]Carrying your shield prevents you from casting spells when on the combat screen.[[/note]] The next three games will not allow you to do so.[[note]]Technically the second game ''allows'' you to drop your shield, but that makes it impossible to fight Khaveen at the end of the game, making the game potentially Unwinnable.[[/note]] It's not until ''Quest for Glory V'' that it's possible for a Fighter to fight without one.
** The Paladin class is never mentioned, making it the only game in the series without it.

%%* {{Unwinnable}}: In typical Sierra fashion.

* UnwinnableByMistake: In the VGA version, you can save at any time, but in a couple of instances, restoring the save results in an in-game timer running out far faster than it otherwise would, preventing you from taking a necessary action and usually resulting in a game over.

* MrExposition: Most characters in the game can fill you in on a lot of backstory, or at least on whatever would be relevant to where they live or what they do. However a ton of exposition can actually be received from a completely unexpected source: The guard atop the gatehouse at the castle. As per Sierra's idiom, there's nothing in-game that would even hint at him having anything interesting to say - he's just there to open the gate for you.

** They also severely relaxed the cap on how much time you could spend resting before the game would stop letting you, a very welcome change with how this is your first quest and you'll get worn out pretty quickly. Originally you'd be stuck waiting for time to pass on its own a lot.

* GratuitousGerman: We have places such as Spielburg [[note]]literally "Game Town"[[/note]] and Zauberberg [[note]]literally "Magic Mountain"[[/note]]. There's also a band of brigands with the motto "Brigands Uber Alles"[[note]]"Brigands above all", a play on the German anthem that begins with "Deutschland Uber Alles"[[/note]], as well as a brigand trio called "[[ThreeStoogesShoutOut Die Drei Knochelkopfen]]". The thieves' password in the VGA version [[ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish Is Always Schwertfisch]], and the random passwords in the EGA version are mostly German words.

** They also severely relaxed the cap on how much time you could spend resting before the game would stop letting you.

* FallingChandelierOfDoom: How you neutralize Die Drei Knochelkopfen.

* TheUnfought: Bruno, who the hero will never face, even if the hero kills his partner Brutus. Perhaps that's just as well for the hero, since regardless of how much level grinding the hero does in the game, making any suspicious moves around Bruno or running into him in the forest after his meeting with Brutus will result in Bruno instantly killing the hero with his poisoned daggers. [[spoiler: He returns in Quest for Glory V.]]

* LostForever: The Fighter earns points the first time he kills a given type of monster. However because of the LevelScaling mentioned above, certain types may stop appearing if you advance too quickly. Reach that point before killing a type of monster, and you may never get those points. This is especially the case with the [[TheGoomba Saurus]], which is supplanted by the [[DemonicSpiders Saurus Rex]].

* FakeWizardry: A large group of brigands are terrorizing the countryside, aided in part by a strange wizard. Hints are dropped throughout the game, however, that said wizard isn't really using magic, and in the end the "wizard" turns out to be the local baron's [[TheJester old jester]], who has been using a mixture of intelligence, stage magic, blinding powders, and the rudimentary magic that even a non magic user can wield by knowing the right words or ingredients to mix together. He knows he's out of his league against a real magic-slinger, and will run away immediately if you try to use magic of your own against him.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Some of the puns in the remake, such as Erasmus' comment that Baba Yaga doesn't believe in "Safe Hex". Also, talking to a tree will reveal that it just likes to beech about its more poplar neighbors.

** The baron's name is Stefan von Spielburg.

* ViolenceReallyIsTheSolution: Despite the Antwerp being completely non-aggressive, just bouncing around and not caring too much about you, you ''have'' to attack it in order to get it out of the way.

* GuideDangIt: Largely averted, as ''most'' puzzles in the game are fairly easy to logic out either from context, or simply ''paying attention''. The exception is how to get the green fur needed to complete the Dispel Potion, which can easily leave a player stumped for days.[[note]]There is precisely one green-furred creature in the game, the Green Meep. Just trying to ''get'' the fur, either by taking it or attempting to attack the Meep results in the Hero uselessly trying to manhandle the critter out of the ground, and there's no shed fur that you can collect on the ground. The solution is to simply ''ask'' for it. The ''only'' hint you get anywhere in the game how to approach this puzzle is that the Healer mentions that a green-furred creatures is undoubtedly magical. However ''magical'' doesn't necessarily mean ''sentient'', especially as there are a number of magical or enchanted creatures in the game that are nonsentient and unable to be communicated with.[[/note]]

The game is set in a backdrop of Germanic and Norse mythology, (with a few exceptions, most notably the Katta innkeepers Shema and Shameen and the merchant Abdulla Doo, all three of whom are visiting from their native [[VideoGame/QuestForGloryII Arabian Nights themed land of Shapeir]], and the Slavic Baba Yaga) and later received an EnhancedRemake with VGA graphics.

** The Fighter can drop his shield, allowing him to use magic in combat.[[note]]Carrying your shield prevents you from casting spells when on the combat screen.[[/note]] The next three games will not allow you to do so. It's not until ''Quest for Glory V'' that it's possible for a Fighter to fight without one.