SpellCaster (video game)

{{Short description|1989 video game}}

{{Infobox video game

|title=SpellCaster

|image=File:SpellCaster.jpg

|caption=North American cover art

|developer= Sega

|publisher=Sega

|designer= Nanno Koreshiki
Izumi Black 55
Alex Yoko
Rieko Kodama
Naoto Ohshima

|composer = Sachio Ogawa

|released={{vgrelease|JP|September 23, 1988{{cite web |title=Software List |url=https://sega.jp/history/hard/segamark3/software.html |website=Sega Hard Encyclopedia |publisher=Sega Corporation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190621034428/https://sega.jp/history/hard/segamark3/software.html |access-date=May 15, 2023 |archive-date=2019-06-21 |language=ja}}|NA|September 1989{{cite magazine |title=Availability Update |url=https://retrocdn.net/images/d/d9/ComputerEntertainer_US_Vol.8_06.pdf |date=September 1989 |magazine=Computer Entertainer}}{{cite magazine|title=Spellcaster - Factfile |magazine=Electronic Gaming Monthly |issue=3 |volume=1 |publisher=Sendai Publishing |date=September 1989 |page=56}}|EU|1989}}

|genre=Action RPG

|modes=Single-player

|platforms=Master System

}}

SpellCaster, known in Japan as {{nihongo|Kujaku Ō|孔雀王|Peacock King}} and in South America as Warrior Quest, is a 1988 video game developed and published by Sega for the Master System.

In Japan a sequel, known in western markets as Mystic Defender, was released in 1989 for the Sega Genesis.

Plot

The game starts when Kane is summoned by Daikak, the great leader of the Summit Temple, to stop a war between factions of warlords. The player explores temples and defeats enemies like ghosts, ninja and feral beasts. There are also villages to explore and people to talk to as the player assembles clues on who desecrated his home town's temple and killed its guardians. The quest takes the player across medieval Japan and to the Underworld.

Reception

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S: The Sega Magazine gave the game a positive review, giving it a 91% score.{{cite magazine |title=Special: SpellCaster |magazine=S: The Sega Magazine |date=5 May 1990 |issue=7 (June 1990) |pages=12–3 |url=https://retrocdn.net/images/3/3b/StheSegaMagazine_UK_07.pdf#page=12}}

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