History VideoGame / KingsBounty

* IdleAnimation: Tend to play so often that they cross into MostAnnoyingSound for some units.

** [[spoiler:In ''The Legend'', if you decide to do the optional quest to complete the dwarven key and use it to close the portal to Demonis, [[CaptainObvious you will not be able to re-enter Demonis]].]]

* GoodBadTranslation: ''The Legend'''s translation while bad still manages to be pretty hilarious in a rambling walls-of-text sort of way.

* ActionGirl: Amelie in ''Armored Princess''

* DiscOneNuke: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8sfYRD-Kcg This longplay]] of the first game show how it's possible to avoid tackling any of the villains at all until you've bopped around long enough just building up your leadership stat and finding the legendary treasures that you can recruit the most powerful units in the game and then just breeze through most of the boss battles.

''King's Bounty'' was a video game made in 1990 by New World Computing back when they were still young and filled with hope and dreams, the game play was much like the ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' games of today – enough that 3DO would release a UsefulNotes/{{Playstation 2}} port titled ''Heroes of Might and Magic: Quest for the Dragon Bone Staff'' a decade later – but rather than controlling an entire kingdom you played a single hero with a salary and unit limit determined by level, rank, and other things.

* LostForever: [[spoiler: In ''The Legend'', if you decide to do the optional quest to complete the dwarven key and use it to close the portal to Demonis, [[CaptainObvious you will not be able to re-enter Demonis.]]]]
** Also in ''The Legend'', the extremely powerful artifact Anga's Ruby is easily lost forever since the quest that rewards it requires talking to a certain pirate captain in the Islands of Freedom... who looks like all other enemy pirates and is ''only friendly in daytime''. If you happen to come across him at night for the first time and proceed defeat him, you'll most likely never know what you missed.

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: The most technologically advanced race

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Mage Amelie.

''King's Bounty'' was a video game made in 1990 by New World Computing back when they were still young and filled with hope and dreams, the game play was much like the ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' games of today – enough that 3DO would release a UsefulNotes/{{Playstation 2}} port titled ''Heroes of Might and Magic: Quest for the Dragon Bone Staff'' a decade later – but rather then controlling an entire kingdom you played a single hero with a salary and unit limit determined by level, rank, and other things.

''King's Bounty'' was a video game made in 1990 by New World Computing back when they were still young and filled with hope and dreams, the game play was much like the ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' games of today – enough that 3DO would release a {{Playstation 2}} port titled ''Heroes of Might and Magic: Quest for the Dragon Bone Staff'' a decade later – but rather then controlling an entire kingdom you played a single hero with a salary and unit limit determined by level, rank, and other things.

All of the modern sequels can be purchased through {{Steam}} and [=GamersGate=].

** The Sword of Prowess from the first game is probably one of the most badass examples ever, since it not only makes its owner one of the most formidable warriors ever (not that you'll ever know thanks to the lack of one-on-one combat), its effects spill over into all the forces under its owner's command.

King's Bounty was [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff popular enough in Russia]] to spawn a couple of unofficial fan sequels for the Amiga called King's Bounty 2 and 3, unrelated fan remake for MS-DOS also called King's Bounty 2 (neither of these are available in any language but Russian), several [[SpiritualSuccessor spiritual successors]] of varying quality and finally a series of modern sequels for the PC which got translated into English. The first of these sequels is called ''King's Bounty: The Legend'', and was followed by ''King's Bounty: Armored Princess'', which got a expansion pack called ''Crossworlds'' with additional models. A third game titled ''King's Bounty: Warriors of the North'' was released in October 26th, 2012. Most agree that ''King's Bounty: Armored Princess'' with expansion is the best of the three, while ''King's Bounty: Warriors of the North'' is weaker due to being developed by another developer with previous developer only supervising the beginning stage of creation and also being mainly the same game with numerous yet not groundbreaking changes and additions. The latest entry in the series, called King's Bounty: Dark Side, was released in August 2014. Unlike previous installments this one focuses on using "evil" troops.

** [[{{Magitech}} Lina]], the [[AnIcePerson Ice mage]].

King's Bounty was [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff popular enough in Russia]] to spawn a couple of unofficial fan sequels for the Amiga called King's Bounty 2 and 3, unrelated fan remake for MS-DOS also called King's Bounty 2 (neither of these are available in any language but Russian), several [[SpiritualSuccessor spiritual successors]] of varying quality and finally a series of modern sequels for the PC which got translated into English. The first of these sequels is called ''King's Bounty: The Legend'', and was followed by ''King's Bounty: Armored Princess'', which got a expansion pack called ''Crossworlds'' with additional models. A third game titled ''King's Bounty: Warriors of the North'' was released in October 26th, 2012. Most agree that ''King's Bounty: Armored Princess'' with expansion is the best of the three, while ''King's Bounty: Warriors of the North'' is weaker due to being developed by another developer with previous developer only supervising the beginning stage of creation and also being mainly the same game with numerous yet not groundbreaking changes and additions.

''King's Bounty'' was a video game made in 1990 by New World Computing back when they were still young and filled with hope and dreams, the game play was much like the HeroesOfMightAndMagic games of today – enough that 3DO would release a {{Playstation 2}} port titled ''Heroes of Might and Magic: Quest for the Dragon Bone Staff'' a decade later – but rather then controlling an entire kingdom you played a single hero with a salary and unit limit determined by level, rank, and other things.

King's Bounty was popular enough in Russia to spawn a couple of unofficial fan sequels for the Amiga called King's Bounty 2 and 3, unrelated fan remake for MS-DOS also called King's Bounty 2 (neither of these are available in any language but Russian), several [[SpiritualSuccessor spiritual successors]] of varying quality and finally a series of modern sequels for the PC which got translated into English. The first of these sequels is called ''King's Bounty: The Legend'', and was followed by ''King's Bounty: Armored Princess'', which got a expansion pack called ''Crossworlds'' with additional models. A third game titled ''King's Bounty: Warriors of the North'' was released in October 26th, 2012. Most agree that ''King's Bounty: Armored Princess'' with expansion is the best of the three, while ''King's Bounty: Warriors of the North'' is weaker due to being developed by another developer with previous developer only supervising the beginning stage of creation and also being mainly the same game with numerous yet not groundbreaking changes and additions.

King's Bounty was popular enough in Russia to spawn a couple of unofficial fan sequels for the Amiga called King's Bounty 2 and 3, unrelated fan remake for MS-DOS also called King's Bounty 2 (neither of these are available in any language but Russian), several [[SpiritualSuccessor spiritual successors]] of varying quality and finally two modern sequels for the PC called ''King's Bounty: The Legend'' and ''King's Bounty: Armored Princess'', both of which have been translated into English. The second of these modern sequels got a expansion pack called ''Crossworlds'' which contains additional models. A third game titled ''King's Bounty: Warriors of the North'' was released in October 26th, 2012. Most agree that ''King's Bounty: Armored Princess'' with expansion is the best of the three, while ''King's Bounty: Warriors of the North'' is weaker due to being developed by another developer with previous developer only supervising the beginning stage of creation and also being mainly the same game with numerous yet not groundbreaking changes and additions.

** Averted in ''Armored Princess'', where one can find eggs, seeds, and such on the ground that can be converted from items to troops. It's possible to scrape together enough forces this way to win a few fights and start putting your army back together.

* TheDreaded: In the newer games, the Black Dragon is the most powerful unit in terms of raw power by a fair margin and has a unique passive ability called "Dragon Power" that scares all enemy units that are not level 5.

* SomeCallMeTim: Dragon {{NPCs}} in ''The Legend'' adopt localized names since [[TheUnpronounceable others can't pronounce their actual names]].

* LostForever: [[spoiler: [[CaptainObvious In ''The Legend'', Demonis becomes inaccessible if you complete the dwarven key and use it to close the portal.]]]]

King's Bounty was popular enough in Russia to spawn a couple of unofficial fan sequels for the Amiga called King's Bounty 2 and 3, unrelated fan remake for MS-DOS also called King's Bounty 2 (regrettably neither of these are available in any language but Russian), several [[SpiritualSuccessor spiritual successors]] of varying quality and finally two modern sequels for the PC called ''King's Bounty: The Legend'' and ''King's Bounty: Armored Princess'', both of which have been translated into English. The second of these modern sequels got a expansion pack called ''Crossworlds'' which contains additional models. A third game titled ''King's Bounty: Warriors of the North'' was released in October 26th, 2012. Most agree that ''King's Bounty: Armored Princess'' with expansion is the best of the three, while ''King's Bounty: Warriors of the North'' is weaker due to being developed by another developer with previous developer only supervising the beginning stage of creation and also being mainly the same game with numerous yet not groundbreaking changes and additions.

* BetterThanABareBulb: The remake lampshades it tropes to hell and back.

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Higher difficulty playthroughs tend to favor the AI when it comes to RNG. The AI can also field a lot more units than the player, and AI heroes got a lot more mana than it would be possible for the player character (however, they can't regenerate it).

** Reaper, the Rage Spirits, looks like Death himself, but is actually on your side, if you help him.
* DeadpanSnarker: You, on many occassions.

* ElementalPowers: Fire and Poison have their own element, everything else is considered magical

* FantasticRacism: Recruiting undead and/or demons into your army will cause your other units to suffer severe morale penalties unless you have the Tolerance skill.
* FearlessUndead: They can, however be poisoned.

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Armored Princess replaced the chest of rage with a pet dragon.
* InfinityPlusOneSword: The Equilibrum Sword in Armored Princess, which can turn into either the Sword of Light or Darkness depending on your choices. Both provide a hefty bonus to Attack, which doubles at day or night, and either increases or decreases the defense of good units on the field.

* LimitBreak: Rage abilities and the "adrenaline" speciality of orcs in ''Crossworlds''
* LostForever: [[spoiler: In ''The Legend'' you can complete the dwarven key to Demonis and use it to close it shut. However, you won't be able to access it again.]]

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Fairly standard except for the Emerald Dragons, which don't have a breath attack nor the usual immunity to fire. Instead, they can drag enemies to them and damage nearby enemies while restoring some mana to the hero.

* OurOrcsAreDifferent: Tolkienian to the max, but not always evil

** Averted in Armored Princess, where one can find eggs, seeds, and such on the ground that can be converted from items to troops. It's possible to scrape together enough forces this way to win a few fights and start putting your army back together.
* WorthyOpponent: Karador the Death Knight in ''TheLegend'' considers you one when defeated.

* ArbitraryMinimumRange: Ranged units are limited to melee attacks if there's an enemy unit adjacent to them- not only can they not use their main weapon against the adjacent enemy, they can't fire at anyone else either.

* GiantSpider: Avaible as low-level monsters capable of poisoning and spinning webs. A really big one (and with big I mean... the size of a castle) is a boss in the Dwarven Kingdom in ''The Legend''.
* GlobalAirship: In ''Armored Princess'', your horse can turn into a pegasus later on.

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: The most technolgically advanced race