9.2 /10 1 Votes
3.8/5 Abandonware DOS Genre(s) Interactive fiction Initial release date 1992 Developer Legend Entertainment Publisher Legend Entertainment | 5/5 My Abandonware 5/5 Emuparadise Mode(s) Single-player Series Spellcasting Designer Steve Meretzky Platform DOS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The text adventure game Spellcasting 301: Spring Break is the third and last installment of the Spellcasting series created by Steve Meretzky during his time at Legend Entertainment. All three games in the series tell the story of young Ernie Eaglebeak, a student at the prestigious Sorcerer University, progressing through his studies, learning the arcanes of magic, taking part in student life, occasionally saving the world as he knows it, and having his way with any beautiful women he can get his hands on.
Reception
Computer Gaming World's Charles Ardai stated that "Spellcasting 301 is vintage Meretzky, up there with his earlier classics ... Everyone else who writes interactive fiction should take a good, hard look at what Meretzky is doing, because he is doing it right". In addition to praising the game's "devious and inimitable wordplay", Ardai approved of the graphics depicting "specimens of female pulchritude ... [some] would do credit to any edition of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue". He concluded that "when you are playing this game, you are constantly aware that you are in the hands of a master".
