That's an idea, Reenie. You probably don't need the potion once you get through the swamp, but I would check a walkthrough just to make sure.

Reenie, I think the bloom is supposed to disappear once you eat it, I found a save for right after the sprites part and I'm sending it to the email in your profile

Thank you, Jen.

I'm amazed. Got the save, thank you! Wow, a game from 1998 and people still had info and Save games.

I myself didn't get to play this game until I GOG put it out and I could play it first on my vista laptop and now with my windows 7 one

I know I put the link where I got the same in the email Reenie, but I'm gonna put it in this thread too incase someone comes here looking for help sometime down the road and those saves would help them too

http://www.sierrahelp.com/Misc/SaveGames.html All saves are in a zip file per realm (such as the swamp region's saves are all together)

Thanks to all your help, I have finished up in the swamp and headed off to the underground realm. Now, it is like playing "Doom," in that you are creeping around corners, being shot at by guys you can't see. ha ha Still, I am glad to be out of the swamp. I had forgotten ALL of this stuff.

Have had some odd glitches hit from time to time. At one point, after buying some stuff, my character would not put down his coins so I could resume playing. At another, he would not take up his weapon. I had to go back to a previous saves where things were OK. So I am saving often.

That's smart to save often. It sounds like you are making good progress.

Wow, after the loooong level for Dimension of the Dead and the challenges of the Swamp, the mines and the Lava world went very fast ~ and so did the Sun levels. I had a few glitches along the way, but overall, I enjoyed it. There was some nonsense at the very end regarding the final celebration video when I defeated the ultimate Boss. I was supposed to be able to go back to Daventry and see everyone healed and joyous. All I got was a blank screen and "video not available; vids:iv50 decompressor not found." Wah! You could hear the audio playing, so you knew something was happening, you just weren't included. This happened a couple of times during the game, too, usually at a Level Up video, but they weren't such a big deal as at the end.

Long story short: KQ VIII may be a fun nostalgia trip for someone who played it back in the late 90's. There is a pretty consistent amount of fighting to be done (sword and crossbow, mostly), but you find all the usual power ups and health and special stuff after every fight, so you can't really be "killed" in the game. (Of course, you can restart a Save, if you actually did run out of everything and died.) Once you clear a level, the bad guys don't respawn (and I was a little sorry they didn't because with all of them gone, after a while, the worlds were pretty empty).

There are 50 Save Game slots, so more than anyone would need.

You control the character's movement with the four arrow keys on your keyboard, and this was pretty twitchy for me in this game. I had a terrible time, and was still running into the walls or turning my back to an attacker even up to the last scene. Just couldn't get the hang of it. If this game were realistic, my poor character would have died long before leaving the first world, from accumulated concussions. ha ha ha

I only remember a few "puzzles" in the whole game (all but the Prime Numbers puzzle at the bridge in the volcanic world were easy). Really, all you are trying to do is eliminate bad guys, run the usual errands, and locate keys to open locked doors; no "puzzles" involved there. There is the usual amount of jumping but not timed, and you can save between each jump rather than have to start over.

Yes, the graphics are extremely dated, but it is an engaging adventure, the main character is not a jerk, the various "worlds" are fun to explore, and I was thoroughly engrossed in it. I am not your typical "Action" gamer.

I did have to get help at a few of points. One was finding all the rocks (don't ask), the second was what the idea was behind the Prime Numbers bridge (look it up if you play KQ VIII), and the last was when I was stumped in the snowing world and didn't realize that the way to get inside the big fort was to fall through a grating in the roof. ha ha

Congratulations on finishing the game.

Very well done, Reenie !!

Congrats on the completion, Reenie. If you're playing the version from gog.com, they took out that ending video (I don't remember why) but I found someone has it uploaded on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dWTqkvx2SU

That is so sweet. Thank you!