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AGD Remakes updated - Dark Jaguar - 28th March 2009
AGD's the group that did the unofficial remakes of KQ1 and KQ2 (unofficial, but using the same voice actor for Graham that Sierra did, and with support from Ken Williams).
Well, they apparently decided to remake their remakes. They added voice acting to each game's narration (the narrator is pretty good, but KQ6's narrator voice is still the best narrator voice ever in everything forever, but that's an unfair comparison). Further, KQ1 (the one that is a 1:1 recreation (save for the obvious changes switching to a cursor interface brings), has a new "no dead ends" mode which makes small alterations to prevent all possible scenarios that could "dead end" a player, as well as taking out the random deaths (like shoving a rock from the wrong side crushing you for no previously indicated reason). They didn't add this for their KQ2 remake, because in that case it was not anything close to 1:1 and it's practically a brand new game, one which already eliminates dead ends and tries to make you aware in advance when you're doing something or are somewhere dangerous. (Personally, I love the vast majority of their version, but I think they took too many liberties in changing some of the characters, like making Dracula downright heroic at the end and making an innocent helpful lady in the previous game a scheming magician in the new one.)
Oh, and they redrew all the background art and a lot of other art sources as well, plus adding lip synching to the characters. All in all, after playing the new versions I'd say the games both look far more professional than they did before.
http://agdinteractive.com/
AGD Remakes updated - A Black Falcon - 29th March 2009
Every Sierra adventure game badly needs (and needed) a "no dead ends" mode. Sierra made so many adventure games, but a lot of them are so frustrating to actually play...