History VideoGame / TheLegendOfKyrandia

** Two examples in ''The Hand of Fate'' both occur in the Mystic’s Cabin. Should you click the “Tinker’s Bell” on Zanthia, she’ll give a shout-out to several Westwood employees and characters. Harder to discover is the “secret potion” that’s not listed in the spellbook. Should Zanthia find the right ingredients and drink it, the keyboard becomes a “magical sound toy,” where pressing different keys will play the various sound effects heard throughout the game.

** In the second game, practically everything on Volcania is optional, from interacting with the fraudsters to making the flying shoes potion. If you pick up on the clues as to how to reach the centre of the world early enough, Zanthia won’t need to spend much time combing the beaches. Gathering all the items required to pay the salespeople for information will extended gameplay significantly.

* PlotHole: The third game offers an unusual degree of non-linearity for adventure games and multiple different solutions to puzzles. While this is a noble effort, the narrative doesn't manage to hold all its threads together with this. The game will bring up characters and events with the assumption that you encountered them earlier, when it is in fact possible to completely miss them. Particularly glaring are the three coins that Malcolm had "earned in jail", when veteran players might prefer to either avoid the boring jail tasks or do a jailbreak without any work.

** The third game has a minor time-saving mechanic on the Isle of Cats which is never hinted at: When you give a bone to the dog, he will go bury it in a random spot on the screen, potentially digging up one of several gems you need to progress. Whether he does dig up a gem is dependent on the spot he digs up, leaving the player to the mercy of the RandomNumberGod. However, instead of giving the bone directly to the dog you can instead drop it on the ground, which will cause the dog to go over and bury it on that spot.

** Zanthia casually mentions her wardrobe spell to Brandon in the first game. This spell gets used whenever she gets to a new area in the second game.

* TheMagicGoesAway: When Malcolm is defeated in the first game's ending.

** Zanthia casually mentions her wardrobe spell to Brandon in the first game. This spell gets used frequently in the second game.

** One of Brandon's incidental dialogues is complaining about being hungry, even if you have him pig out on apples and berries.

* LimitedWardrobe: Zanthia, the protagonist of the second game, changes outfits frequently by means of her handy wardrobe spell. Some are just palette swaps of her first outfit, but she also has a flower-print wrap dress, a casual hiking outfit, snow gear, and even a bathrobe/towel/fuzzy slippers combo. It isn't a case of UnlimitedWardrobe, though, since near the end of the game she mentions that the spell is almost empty.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Brandon spends the majority of the first game complaining about his boots being uncomfortable. He seems to be fine with sandals though. Lampshaded in the third game, where one of Brandon's original shoes turns up at the dump.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: One of Brandon's incidental dialogues is complaining about being hungry, even if you have him pig out on apples and berries.

* {{Bowdlerize}}: Version 1.0 of the first game had Brandon say "[[PrecisionFStrike Oh Shit]]! I'm burnin'!" when engulfed on the lava bridge. It also gave him a racy remark if you clicked on Zanthia's chest after she was turned to stone ("I've ALWAYS wanted to do that!"). Subsequent patches and re-releases (including the MPC version) omitted these elements, making the game more "family-friendly."

* {{Bowdlerize}}: Version 1.0 of the first game had Brandon say "Oh Shit! I'm burnin'!" when engulfed on the lava bridge. It also gave him a racy remark if you clicked on Zanthia's chest after she was turned to stone ("I've ALWAYS wanted to do that!"). Subsequent patches and re-releases (including the MPC version) omitted these elements, making the game more "family-friendly."

* MagicAmpersand: ''Fables & Fiends''.

* RunningGag: Zanthia keeps finding a specific stick in multiple locations, even just before the endgame. After it first ends up in her inventory, she wonders if it's following her around.

** Also in ''The Hand of Fate'', Zanthia yells at the “orchestra” to stop playing before reciting her poem, which causes the background music to to cease.

* The Legend of Kyrandia, Book One: Fables and Fiends (1992)
* The Legend of Kyrandia, Book Two: Hand of Fate (1993)
* The Legend of Kyrandia, Book Three: Malcolm's Revenge (1994)

* AbhorrentAdmirer: In Book III, Malcolm seems to view Rowena as this, and definitely shows discomfort at some of her pet-names for him and hopes for their future. [[spoiler: The ending reveals it didn’t stop them from having a baby together!]]

-->Hunters: ''We don’t need any help from you.''
-->Zanthia: ''I wasn’t offering any!''

* NoPronunciationGuide: The floppy disk version of the first game, which features no spoken dialogue, gives no indication of how “Kyrandia” is pronounced. The floppy disk edition of the second game does feature spoken narration during the introduction, and the narrator alternates between “Ky-ran-dee-ah” and “Ker-an-dee-ah”. The voiced CD versions initially went with “Ky-ran-dee-ah” exclusively, but come ''Malcolm’s Revenge'', everyone pronounces it “Ker-an-dee-ah” instead.

* KarmaHoudini: In the third game, Malcolm can choose to embrace his good side, and if he does, everyone likes him - especially after it's proven [[spoiler:he didn't try to kill the king after all]]. Even if that's true, he still turned all the royal mystics to stone and tried to kill the rightful heir.