History VideoGame / KingsQuestIIIToHeirIsHuman

* NintendoHard: Even compared to the other games in the series with the overabundance of {{Moon Logic Puzzle}}s and [[YetAnotherStupidDeath stupid deaths]], the addition of a time limit in the first half of the game forces the player to keep a very strict schedule in gathering everything they need to thwart Manannan, not to mention the CopyProtection puzzle listed above.

* EscortMission: In one part, Alexander escorts Rosella back into the palace. While she is able to handle the stairs and the crevices, he on the other hand [[GravityIsAHarshMistress is susceptible to falling to his death]].

** Ifnkovhgroghprm the gnome appears. He has a theme that did not exist in the first game.

* EverybodyHelpsOutDenouement: In the ''Infamous Adventures'' [[FanRemake remake]] (not the [[VideoGame/KingsQuestIIIRedux AGD Interactive one]]), the epilogue includes a scene where [[spoiler: King Graham and Alexander are shown rebuilding Daventry after the devastation caused by the three-headed dragon]].

* CameraScrew: When walking down the mountain, your view is obscured by rocks and you have to guess where the path is.

* FairyTale: Typical of the franchise. Along with staple fairy tale tropes like Gwydion being LostOrphanedRoyalty who needs to save a DistressedDamsel from a dragon, there is an appearance by the Three Bears from ''Literature/{{Goldilocks}}''. If so inclined, the player can have Gwydion re-enact the famous story by having him eat from the three bowls of porridge, sit on each of the three chairs and lying down on the upstairs beds. True to the tale, he'll reject Papa and Mama Bear's belongings for being too hard/hot or soft/cold, but find Baby Bear's "just right."

* GeographicalFlexibility: There are several landmarks in Daventry that Gwydion passes which featured in ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIQuestForTheCrown'' such as the castle, the well and the stone staircase leading to the clifftops, but they are in much different proximity to each other than they were in the prior game.

* GenreSavvy: In the AGD remake, Gwydion finds the journal of his predecessor. The boy knows what fate awaits all Gwydions on their 18th birthday, and tries to escape. He doesn't make it.

* FairyTale: Typical of the franchise. Along with staple fairy tale tropes like Gwydion being LostOrphanedRoyalty and Princess Rosella ending up a DistressedDamsel sacrificed to a dragon, there is an appearance by the Three Bears from ''Literature/Goldilocks''. If so inclined, the player can have Gwydion re-enact the famous story by having him eat from the three bowls of porridge, sit on each of the three chairs and lying down on the upstairs beds. True to the tale, he'll reject Papa and Mama Bear's belongings for being too hard/hot or soft/cold, but find Baby Bear's "just right."

* FairyTale: Typical of the franchise

* WhatTheHellHero: Daventry is cursed, a dragon plagues the land, and Princess Rosella is demanded as sacrifice. This sure sounds like the kind of quest Graham would take in a moment, even in his middle-aged years. Yet, the King simply surrenders his daughter and falls into despair. The implication is that the loss of his son Alexander, and the decline of the kingdom have all but broken him, and when Rosella is chosen as the sacrifice to the three-headed dragon that no one has been able to stop, and she ''bravely goes to meet her fate against his wishes'', he breaks down completely.

* {{Gainaxing}}: In the original version, the barmaid's breasts emphatically bounce as she brings the brigands fresh flagons of ale.
** Rosella was also extremely buxom and bouncy in the original version of the game.

* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler: Gwydion transforms Manannan into a harmless housecat... [[HoistByHisOwnPetard using a spell from the wizard's own grimore against him]].]]

* GoryDiscretionShot: [[ItMakesSenseInContext If you enter a tree's stump as a fly]], [[YetAnotherStupidDeath you can dispel the transformation and revert back to human form, even thought there isn't a lot of room.]] The narrator notes that your death is pretty horrible and refuses to show anything on screen.

* AdultFear: Graham paralyzed by grief. His son was kidnapped from his cradle and enslaved by his enemies ''somewhere,'' his kingdom has been burnt to cinders by a dragon that his best efforts cannot defeat with innocents suffering and dying on his watch...and then his only remaining child offers herself up as a HumanSacrifice. The canonical game shows this towards the end and is explained by Rumplestiltskin and Rosella, and in the ending.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: In the Infamous Adventures remake the magic map actually transports you all the way back up to Mannanan's house instead of just to the bottom of the mountain and making you walk all the way back up every time as in the original, saving you many an instance of falling to your death. Likewise you don't need to type in every line of spell preparation letter-perfect or HaveANiceDeath, although you will still die if you attempt a spell without all proper materials.