History VideoGame / TheLegendOfKyrandia

** Should Malcolm become imprisoned in the mouse jail, he has to use the three ingredients the other inmates have to make a biobomb in order to escape. Should the ingredients be consumed or used in another way, it may appear to be a dead end, but there is a hidden failsafe. [[spoiler:The flask can be refilled from water dripping off the chains, while additional eels and sesame seeds can be found by clicking the lower left-hand corner of the screen.]] As well, this is one of the only segments where the [[spoiler:Jester’s Staff]] is required to progress, and it will be found in the jail if Malcolm failed to collect it earlier.

** Should Malcolm become imprisoned in the mouse jail, he has to use the three ingredients the other inmates have to make a biobomb in order to escape. Should the ingredients be consumed or used in another way, it may appear to be a dead end, but there is a hidden failsafe. [[spoiler:The flask can be refilled from water dripping off the chains, while additional eels and sesame seeds can be found by clicking the lower left-hand corner of the screen.]]

** Averted in ''The Hand of Fate'' and ''Malcolm's Revenge'', which cannot be made unwinnable. [[spoiler: One puzzle in ''The Hand of Fate's'' town of Highmoon requires you to repeat an earlier color memorization sequence in order to unlock a door, which is different in each game played. If you no longer remember the sequence, you can break the lock with a pair of scissors.]]

* PolygonCeiling: ''The Legend of Kyrandia'' 1 and 2 were widely praised, while the 3rd got a mixed reception. Transition from painted to rendered backgrounds and objects was not the main peeve, but it definitely [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks affected the game atmosphere]]. The primitivism of models also did not help.

* LongSongShortScene: The first game features [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9phSr8EVDY a rather long and catchy tune]] which plays in exactly one room in the entire game: the cavern of emeralds hidden within the labyrinth, which is completely optional. Most players never hear more than 10 seconds of it, if even that much.

* FakeLongevity: The third game had a number of repetitive tasks nobody liked. Repeatedly fishing, growing sesame and feeding that to cows to get milk in the first section isn't so bad. It gets mind-numbing on the Isle of Cats as you need to keep wandering around the jungle to collect bones which you then give to a dog so he'll go hide them and at the same time dig up gems you need to progress. Then in Limbo you are every few minutes forcibly summoned to the Queen to entertain her by playing tic-tac-toe against her. At least that one can be slightly ameliorated by bribing one of her guards to do it instead, but again you need to do that every time which requires you to wander around collecting the items to bribe him with...

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the first level of Book II, Zanthia can steam open the four letters the postman asks her to collect. The one addressed to Malcolm comes from “The Wheels of Fate,” which turns out to be her ultimate destination and the source of Kyrandia’s problems.

* PantyShot: Zanthia has a brief one in ''The Hand of Fate'' when she jumps into the hot air vent.

* MoonLogicPuzzle: A few one, but ''The Hand of Fate'' has one even the game points out. In one area Zanthia finds a lead statue, and turning it to gold causes a toybox to appear with a pair of important items (one removes an obstacle, one provides some backstory). Zanthia asks what the heck they have to do with each other, and there doesn't seem to be any answer than because you have an item that turns lead into gold (and vice versa), you're just supposed to use it anytime an appropriate object appears, because gamelogic.

** Zanthia casually mentions her wardrobe spell to Brandon in the first game. This spell plays a major role in the second game.

* EvilSorcerer: Malcolm, strangely enough, has become such a powerful magic user that the others in the realm can hardly stand up to him. And he is a ''jester''.
** He also controls the source of all magic in the land and denied the other mystics access for years and years. They're down to the last pitiful dregs of their powers before he breaks out and comes after them.
** In the third game, Malcolm has no magic powers.

** HealingHands: The yellow gem gives Brandon the ability to heal minor wounds, on himself or on others.
** BallOfLightTransformation: The purple gem on the amulet allows Brandon to transform into a Will o'Wisp (a group of purple, floating lights). He can float over things that have no ground and can travel through cavern rooms indefinitely (the wisp form lights the room, so he cannot be hurt by the beings that lurk in the dark).
** AntiMagic: The blue gem lets Brandon erase certain magical obstacles.
** {{Invisibility}}: The last gem, red, lets Brandon turn transparent.

* AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome: Brandon gets one in the first game, and after a plot even where he receives some kind of magical infusion, one by one its four jewels become colored in and give him access to a magic spell.
** HealingHands: The yellow gem gives Brandon the ability to heal minor wounds.

* AntiMagic: One of the powers unlocked in Brandon's amulet in the first game.

* BallOfLightTransformation: In ''Fables and Fiends'', the purple gem on the amulet allows Brandon to transform into a Will o'Wisp (a group of purple, floating lights). He can float over things that have no ground and can travel through cavern rooms indefinitely (the wisp form lights the room, so he cannot be hurt by the beings that lurk in the dark).

* MessyHair: According to Zanthia, Brynn’s old hairdo resembled frizzy moss growing on swamp treees.