Exposition Fairy: Muggins explains the game's controls to the player at the beginning and also gives them instructions for the rest of it.Everybody Do the Endless Loop: The King's dancing during the "I Love My Food" scene consists of him repeatedly going through a short looped animation while his character model moves back and forth in a way that doesn't sync up with the dancing at all.Establishing Character Moment: The King is introduced explosively belching before rudely asking the Queen about his supper.The animation that accompanies the song, on the other hand, mostly consists of him either staring at the camera with a completely emotionless expression or dancing with a bored one. Dull Surprise: The King's vocal delivery during "I Love My Food" is very lively and expressive.Sir Longsword: Well, no, not fear, exactly, more. Lucky the Duck gets off his share of wisecracks as well, usually when the player instructs him to do something really inane.Muggins demonstrates a very dry sense of humor throughout the game, mostly directed towards the King.Catapult to Glory: At one point, the group is forced to use a catapult-or a mangonel, as it's referred to in the game-to launch themselves into the top of a tower.Bring My Brown Pants: When Abigail is found, after Longsword's attempt to escape the room by telling the others that he has to use the bathroom fails and the Queen starts becoming suspicious of him, he remarks that he "definitely to go to the bathroom now.".Black Comedy Cannibalism: One verse in "I Love My Food" has the King blithely recount a time when the royal cook told him for a dare that they were out of food, to which he responded by chasing her around the castle with a "ravenous look" on his face.The king irritably tells him that he doesn't need luck, which is immediately followed by a bird crapping on his shoulder. Bird-Poop Gag: In the marketplace, the king can interact with a man who offers to sell him a sprig of heather for good luck.Babies Ever After: Abigail and Longsword are shown to have two children in the ending montage.Ash Face: The player can prompt Lucky to examine a cannon which then fires in his face, resulting in this.Having Lucky interact with it reveals it to be sentient. Animated Armor: A suit of armor can be found in the castle.Anachronism Stew: The game takes place in a medieval setting, but things such as microwaves, refrigerators, various modern-day food items, Thanksgiving, sunglasses, dentists, credit cards, baseball, football, chainsaws, and televisions are all mentioned or shown to exist.All Trolls Are Different: A green, bearded troll appears in the marketplace, refusing to let the party pass through until they get him a random pair of items.All for Nothing: As it turns out, the journey to Castle Blackheart was pointless, because the Princess was back at the King and Queen's castle the whole time.Affectionate Nickname: Abigail refers to Sir Longsword as "Smudger," who in turn refers to her as "Bunnysnap," to the Queen's exasperation.Muggins: Of course, food has always been the King's strongest point. Adipose Rex: The King's defining character trait is his insatiable gluttony, and he proudly sings about his servants having to patch several sheets together to make a shirt that just barely fits him and install scaffolding under his horse's chest.After finding one such object, you're given a portion of the "main story" of the game, where you guide the royal entourage on their journey to rescue Abigail. As Lucky, you're tasked by Muggins the wizard with finding various objects and locations hidden throughout the castle by. The first has you explore the castle, vacated by its inhabitants, as Lucky, a talking duck belonging to the royal family. The game is divided into two major segments. One day, while the King and Queen and their servants are having dinner, they discover that the Princess Abigail has gone missing, prompting them to embark on a quest to rescue her. The plot centers around a royal family in a medieval setting. Only the Brave Can Rescue the Kidnapped Princess (released as The Mystery of the Missing Princess in the United States) is a game developed by Omnimedia and released in 1997.
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