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Space Quest I
The Sarien Encounter
The Sarien Encounter is one of my favorite adventure games.
It was not the first Sierra game to stick with me though, or that I completed, or that I spent the most time with. It is the one I keep coming back to.
It's the one I memorized how to complete, and I would write wlakhtrough steps out during vacations when I was bored.
It's the well I kept going back to for artistic inspiration. As pastiche as it is of Star Wars and earlier science fiction.
And it's the only Space Quest where you get a droid. That's pretty neat.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Below here is where I will share drawings of various characters, bits of trivia, and my favorite characters, moments, and deaths in the game.
You can obviously see I've added some stuff, but formatting, screenshots, extracted animations, and sketches will occur when it's not Late O'Clock on a fine Today's evening.
FAVORITE DEATH: Oh there's so many good deaths here. Puffing up like a balloon if you step into the open hangar without your suit? Shoving your whole self into a hole to be belched out as bones? The ridiculousness of going full ostrich after a hefty rock while sand skimming? Probably one of those.
FAVORITE INVENTORY: I was always fond of the Pulseray! It stuck in my head as a pretty unique design and name.
FAVORITE MINIGAME: As a kid, definitely the Slots-O-Death. But the Skimmer Sequence is just iconic.
MEMORABLE MOMENT: Making it into and through the ventilation system of the Deltaur.
CLEVER WRITING: In Ulence Flats, the would-be mugger (or actual mugger if you follow them) is the same being whose ship you "buy" from Tiny. The ship where the description is basically "this is a nice ship, I'm surprised Tiny has it". Which has the keys in it already. And needs a piloting droid. Like the one that you need to buy from Droids B Us. Where that sales being says it was sold to them to pay off debts.
SPACE QUEST-INESS RATING: The definition of a Space Quest. Bumbler in a sequence of perils who saves the day through low cunning.