King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line for the MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows and Macintosh computers in 1994.
Like most King's Quest titles, it is also a reference to the plot: Princess Rosella is soon to be a bride, but ends up in another world shortly before her marriage.
It is the only entry in the series to feature Queen Valanice in a major role, and also the only one in which King Graham is not shown or mentioned at all (with one minor exception in version 1.4).
Escaping, Rosella discovers Malicia conspiring with Otar to cause the volcano the Underground is part of to erupt which will destroy the entire realm.
After passing through the desert, Valanice discovers herself in a forest where she finds out that Attis and Ceres, the Lord of the Hunt and Mother Nature, have been transformed into a stag and a tree respectively by Malicia.
Making her way to a nearby town, Valanice agrees to steal a magical statuette in exchange for a salve that will allow her to pass through a dangerous part of the forest.
Though Valanice succeeds in stealing the statuette, she is arrested after recovering a giant block of cheese that falls from the sky, the moon of the realm.
With the help of local Doctor Mort Cadaver, Rosella begins seeking out the real Otar while coming up against many challenges.
Using the salve to get past the werewolf, Valanice makes her way to the Land of Ooga Booga where she locates and returns the Headless Horseman's head after being informed of recent events by the black cat.
In Etheria, Valanice locates the Fates who tell her that the king and queen are gone and she must travel to a dreamworld to speak to Mab, the lady of dreams.
Using Otar's magic wand, Rosella restores the imposter to his true form, revealing him to be Edgar, the handsome fairy who she encountered in Tamir who had helped her to save her father.
Malicia knocks Otar out, blows Edgar away and imprisons Rosella who manages to escape and return to the control room.
In the good ending, Rosella revives Edgar using the extra life that she had received from the black cat that she helped in the Land of Ooga Booga.
King Oberon and Queen Titania arrive and reveal that Edgar is their son who was kidnapped as a child by the evil fairy Lolotte before Rosella rescued him while in Tamir.
Art director Andy Hoyos specifically cited the intensity of the colors in Disney's Aladdin as an inspiration model.
[2] Composer Jay Usher said: "Just seeing how a character carries himself, acts, or walks ultimately determines the outcome of the music.
[2] According to Sierra On-Line, combined sales of the King's Quest series surpassed 3.8 million units by the end of March 1996.
[8] A reviewer for Next Generation approved of the series's transition from idealized fantasy imagery to highly detailed cartoon graphics, and said the game maintained the King's Quest standard for outstanding soundtracks.