Posted on: April 14, 2018
Grueslayer
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Awesome
If you dislike text adventures, or if you don't know what a text adventure is, this game is not for you. Look elsewhere, you'd just waste your time with obscure stuff too nerdy for you. So Eric the Unready, like all Legend games, has graphics. Back in 1993 those may have looked good, nowadays they're rather likely to cause eye cancer. But since today the game is running via DOSBox you can play it in window mode (just tab out of the game and it'll switch to window mode) and in a small enough window the graphics have a nice comic touch. A side effect of the graphic interface is the compass rose which lets you navigate the game world with your mouse. Bob Bates' writing is terrific, which could be expected after his four former games for Infocom and Legend. If you enjoyed the humour of e.g. Monkey Island or the Monthy Python movies you'll enjoy this one, too. The outlandish story rushes from scene to scene without noteworthy cohesion, but whatever you experience and do will have you laugh. The puzzles are mostly okay, sometimes even clever. A puzzle is "clever" when it takes you some time to sort it out and come up with a solution yourself, after which you pat your own shoulder and call yourself a bright spark - that's what text adventures are about. In a few cases the puzzles are obscure or flawed, and you'll probably need to look up a walkthrough, e.g. here: https://www.walkthroughking.com/text/erictheunready.aspx Like, once you need to SEARCH something you already EXAMINEd (considered bad design nowadays) and one time you need to make yourself smaller, but instead of a clever puzzle which covers alchemy, magic or amputation you simply have to KNEEL. All in all a 9/10 (or a 5/5). Yeah, it requires reading and typing, so if that's not your mug of beer you're out. For the very, very, very few who like text adventures this is a classic, a gem among the (late) games of that era. Looong playing time, so worth way more money than it costs today.
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