Irene is a student at the Tirisfal Fortress, the magic academy where her
sister Annie is one of the tutors. After a precious treatise containing a
demon-summoning spell is stolen from the archives, Annie is accused of the
theft and threatened to be banished and imprisoned. Irene starts to search
desperately for the missing book to clear her sister’s name, scouring all the
rooms and interviewing all the staff.

Like its predecessor, _Magic Academy 2_ is a hidden object game utilizing the
familiar NevoSoft interface, sharing its main design with other titles
developed by the company. Most of the time, the objective is to find a series
of assorted items on a screen depicting a location around the academy. The
list of required objects appears at the top of the screen, showing the names
or silhouettes for each entry. Some scenery objects like doors, chairs, tables
and curtains can be moved to reveal a concealed item. The hint button makes
one of the required objects sparkle, but takes some time to recharge after
use.

Some items are stored in the inventory area at the top, to be used later when
solving puzzles. The inventory objects have to be dragged and dropped on
appropriate and logical portions of the scenery. For example, a key can be
used to unlock a door. Some puzzles take place on a separate screen, where the
player has to complete a mini-game, like solving anagrams, finding all the
differences between two similar images, restoring broken electronic circuits,
repeating patterns on a pentagram, clicking on matching runes, assembling
jigsaw puzzles and other challenges.

Magic Academy 2