Trivia / Kings Quest (2015)

• Acting for Two: Royal Guards #1 and 2 frequently talk to each other, and they're both voiced by Gideon Emery.
• Actor Allusion:
  • Manny is voiced by Wallace Shawn, and like his character in The Princess Bride, he relies less on brawn or speed and more on wits. The very final trial is also lifted directly from the movie, including goblets filled with a certain poison (non-lethal in this case). In Chapter 3, if you get caught in Manny's hideout, old Graham will call it "Inconceivable!"
  • Richard White, who voiced Gaston in Beauty and the Beast, here portrays Whisper, who's about as full of himself as Gaston himself was. Graham will even comment that he looks like a Gaston.
  • The Merchant of Miracles' relationship with Mr. Fancycakes is very similar to a certain king and his penguin.
  • A couple of Back to the Future references appear, in homage to Christopher Lloyd (Old Graham)'s role as Doc Brown; the most obvious is in Chapter 1, when Old Graham mentions Regulation One-Point-Twenty-One. Incidentally, Josh Keaton (Young Graham) also has a history with Back to the Future, as the voice of Jules Brown in the animated series.
    • Two different chapters have a scene where Graham falls out of sight, only to come back into view standing triumphantly on a moving platform with his arms folded^note In Chapter 1 he almost loses the Duel of Strength but is rescued by Olfie; in Chapter 3 he almost falls off the tower but lands on a hovering stone, mimicking the scene from BttF2 where Marty jumps off Tannen Tower, then reappears standing on the hood of the Delorean.
    • One of the ways Graham can die in Chapters 3 and 4 is by freezing to death, and while it isn't specifically referenced in either chapter, it can be assumed this was intentional.
• The Danza: Alexander Polinsky voices teenage Rebel Prince Alexander in Chapter 4.
• Follow the Leader: An episodic adventure game based on a beloved series of classic adventure games, focusing on narrative and dialog-based gameplay over the traditional point & click gameplay, with stylized 3D graphics and choices that affect the outcome of the story? You'd be forgiven if you mistake this for a Telltale Games product a la Sam & Max: Freelance Police or Tales of Monkey Island, as it certainly checks all the boxes.
• Refitted for Sequel: A section of Chapter 5 consists of some ideas that were developed for earlier chapters (according to some concept art) but cut, among them a goblin riding on a rat and an entire song by Acorn/Whisper/Wente. They surface here when old Graham becomes confused about the earlier stories he had told Gwendolyn, with her correcting him on the details as a meta-commentary (she literally says that the song of either character, in particular, would've "made that chapter too long").

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