Working backwards in "Les Manley in: Search for The King"

Some heavy thumb usage...

Feeling totally lost during my first playing session of Les Manley in: Search for the King, I decided to give up my plans of a normal playthrough and instead just try to see how far the soft locks would still get me. After all, when I first reached Las Vegas, I got a message I probably didn't have with me everything I needed, but I could continue playing anyway. I also knew from that overview map there is a third location, a type of Graceland. Working on a hunch, and after some creative use with the text parser, I actually succeeded in getting there as well, once more with a message I might have forgotten some things.

Roadtrip!

But doing this finally made clear my primary goal in this game. After traipsing around on another overview map, I wound up at a pub with quite an ostentative banner for a look-a-like contest. So I have to dress up like The King! Now, all that's left is figuring out how exactly to do that, since so far I haven't seen anything that might be part of such a costume.

Where to go?

So I went all the way back to the start, and focused on the first obvious puzzle: getting those keys from my boss's desk. Once more that took asking the exact right question with the text parser, after finally obtaining an easy to miss clue in Les's office. You might think this got the ball rolling, as such a thing would often cause a domino effect in adventure games. Sadly, not so here, and I kept getting stuck.

Being held hostage...

Literally, even. Besides not knowing how to help some people at the circus, like Helmut the world's smallest man, and Luigi the world's strongest man, I wound up inside the house of a woman who is a big King fan and actually has part of his costume on display, but she didn't allow me to leave anymore once I sat down on her couch! Trying everything I can come up with in the text parser, three hours into the game I'm starting to wish for a point 'n click remake of this game, with a more intuitive control system and at least a bit more signposting... Preferably made by text parser queen Julia Minamata! I'm clearly missing lots of stuff here, things that were probably very obvious to the developers at the time but that I'm just not able yet to link together... I think it might be time to consult a walkthrough...

If you're really sure, you can find Les Manley in: Search for The King on Steam and on GOG!