also mages don't get to wear armor in this game for some reason

meanwhile James has an...... eight-shoulderblade?

but it all pales in comparison to these chickens. these chickens, man. the still image doesn't do the uncanny joint movements justice.

the entire bird swivels up and down on the legs like one of those water-drinking bob-up-and-down toys.

(also it's after midnight and they should be asleep)

Pfffffft

Betrayal at Krondor was state of the art for 1993. This one's from 1998 and it... tried.

The cinematic camera angle in this cut-scene

also I cannot with how the characters' hands are vague squares with vague finger outlines

why is this even here

I'm over here remembering how ~elite~ and ~magical~ we thought these graphics were

this is lovely

I mean, they WERE magical; a computer game was this

and then suddenly this???

RtK was just on the wrong end of how new the 3D modeling was

(unfortunately I'm also seeing a rush job in the writing; there are many items and their descriptions are much more boring than in BaK)

where BaK was something people had never seen before, RtK ended up being behind what they'd come to expect

(there was a studio switch and a bunch of shenanigans and ultimately the next few planned games didn't get made)

(Feist wrote novelizations for the first two and stuck another book between them but ended up scrapping a bunch of what was the studio had been planning for the sequel games and went off in his own direction)

dying is annoying because s h e looms out of the blue-flame-underworld every time and you have to wait for that animation to end before reloading the fight

(I'm pretty sure she's meant to be Lims-Kragma but that's not? confirmed?)

the sprites really just need to be less sad though.
A broadsword in BaK:
A broadsword in RtK:

especially since so many of the sprites are reused (e.g. many of the rapiers share a sprite, as do many of the broadswords, many of the daggers, many of the leather armors....) it's disappointing that the pixel artist didn't check what bits would actually be visible against a black background.