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Eric the Unready   Manufacturer: Legend In Brief: Funny, silly, good puzzles.
Legend created an interface that perfectly bridges the gap between text games and Myst. It's basically a text game with a little picture in one corner and is a mix of mouse and text-based commands (you can do all text if you want). It's probably the best way to play a text game: the convenience of pictures, maps and mouse clicking along with the amusing, elaborate descriptions and happenings of a text game. I suppose it was created at a time when the text game was still popular but graphics adventures were getting more so.
Anyway, Eric is proof that a game that is primarily text and was written years ago can still be mighty entertaining. As Eric, a grotesquely incompetent knight who leaves a wake of destruction in his path, you must save a princess from a horrible fate with the help of leeches and gigantic coconuts, along with the assistance of the casts of Gilligan's Island and Star Trek. Eric has a goofy sense of humor, with knowing winks towards fans of Monty Python and other comedy staples and such wacky puzzles as a game show in which guessing the funniest answer to the question will probably get you the prize (i.e., "sis boom bah" is the answer, "what sound does a sheep make when it explodes" is the question. Eric, in its shamelessly silly way, and without the aid of lush graphics or voice actors, holds up well against its high-tech antecedents.
For the first half, the puzzles are extremely easy, and I thought the whole thing would be a breeze, but things got a bit more complicated half-way through, and I wound up cheating a bit (note: Those newspapers aren't just for laughs, so when you're stuck you might want to read them again). It's really kind of hard by the end, but the puzzles are all pretty reasonable (that is, you feel dumb for having cheated).
If you want a good adventure full of silly jokes, you can't do better than Eric. -- Charles Herold -1999
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