Extra verse in "Land Beyond Dreams"
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:19 pm
(Cross-posted to Sierra Planet, where it unintentionally sparked a rather...interesting conversation.)
If you've downloaded the MIDI of "Land Beyond Dreams" from Quest Studios or elsewhere, you've no doubt noticed that there's an extra verse in the song before it reaches the "I want to go to a land beyond dreams" part. I asked about this on another forum a long time ago, but never got a straight answer.
However, I recently had the incredible luck to find the Roberta Williams Anthology, which contains the storyboard for the KQ7 intro, which seems to answer my question. In it, there are panels showing Rosella singing the missing verse:
They tell me it's my duty, a princess must be wed,
You'll learn to love the handsome prince, there's nothing you should dread
But I'm not prepared to set my freedom on the shelf
How can I trust with someone what I don't understand myself?
Not only that, but in the actual intro, after Rosella tosses the bouquet away, the next full-body shot we see of her shows her standing on that precipice. The storyboard panels for this missing verse show her walking towards the precipice. (Oddly, several of these panels are out of order.)
If you've downloaded the MIDI of "Land Beyond Dreams" from Quest Studios or elsewhere, you've no doubt noticed that there's an extra verse in the song before it reaches the "I want to go to a land beyond dreams" part. I asked about this on another forum a long time ago, but never got a straight answer.
However, I recently had the incredible luck to find the Roberta Williams Anthology, which contains the storyboard for the KQ7 intro, which seems to answer my question. In it, there are panels showing Rosella singing the missing verse:
They tell me it's my duty, a princess must be wed,
You'll learn to love the handsome prince, there's nothing you should dread
But I'm not prepared to set my freedom on the shelf
How can I trust with someone what I don't understand myself?
Not only that, but in the actual intro, after Rosella tosses the bouquet away, the next full-body shot we see of her shows her standing on that precipice. The storyboard panels for this missing verse show her walking towards the precipice. (Oddly, several of these panels are out of order.)