Steve Meretzky’s trilogy of magic-themed collegiate text adventures-with-graphics for Legend. The sometimes-smutty but never-beyond-softcore stories put the player in the shoes of one Ernie Eaglebeak, a wizard-in-training at at Sorcerer University.

## About This Game
Ernie Eaglebeak is a young lad living with his cruel stepfather Joey
Rottenwood, who keeps him locked up in the attic. Ernie is secretly in love
with his neighbor Lola Tigerbelly, a young woman definitely out of his league.
Things take a turn for the better when Ernie gets accepted as a freshman by
the Sorcerer University, a prestigious school of magic. At first Ernie is
fascinated by college life and meets a few attractive women as well. However,
when the magical Sorcerer’s Appliance gets stolen, Ernie is sent on a
dangerous mission to recover that powerful device. Armed with his spellbook
and a magical surfboard, Ernie must cross the Fizzbuttle Ocean and travel to
various islands searching for clues.

Spellcasting 101 is the first game created by Legend Entertainment, heralding
their hybrid graphical and text adventure format. Continuing Infocom’s
tradition of humorous text adventures, the game can be played in text-only
mode. However, graphical depictions of locations can be activated as well, and
the game gives the player the opportunity to combine verbs from a list with
on-screen objects in an almost point-and-click fashion. The game contains many
puzzles following a peculiar sense of logic; it is also possible to get
irrevocably stuck and die.

Magic spells (including such exotic ones as increasing a person’s bust size)
can be learned and then used in appropriate situations to solve puzzles. The
player’s actions advance the game’s internal clock, and some of the tasks are
based on being in the right place at the right time. The islands are tackled
as separate scenarios and are self-sufficient gameplay-wise. The game contains
many puns and jokes, some of them college-oriented (e.g. Tappa Kegga Bru or I
Phelta Thi fraternities). It is possible to activate the “Naughty Mode”, which
shows the game’s female characters semi-naked in some scenes, and also makes
the corresponding text descriptions explicitly erotic.

Having recovered the Sorcerer’s Appliance in the previous game, Ernie
Eaglebeak begins his sophomore year at the Sorcerer University. Having chosen
Hu Delta Phart for his fraternity pledge, Ernie is given exceedingly difficult
hazing rituals by the Pledgemaster Chris Cowpatty. Meanwhile, Ernie’s wise
adviser, Professor Otto Tickingclock, who became the president of SU, asks him
to unveil the true secrets of the Sorcerer’s Appliance.

Like its predecessor, Spellcasting 201 is an interactive fiction game in which
the protagonist’s roster of spells will come in handy. A list of commands and
objects (including spells) is on the left of the screen to be chosen from.
Movement is in the eight compass directions. Ernie must make contact with the
girls, and solve tricky puzzles. Nice Mode turns off the more lurid details
featured in Naughty Mode. As opposed to the previous title, the entire game
takes place within the vast campus grounds, allowing more freedom of movement
but also increasing the difficulty.

It’s spring break time for the students of the Sorcerer University! Ernie
Eaglebeak and his friends from the Hu Delta Phart fraternity load their flying
carpet with booze and sun lotion, and head to a beach resort. However, there
they encounter students from a rival college, more specifically the Getta
Lodda Yu fraternity. These young men are noticeably more muscular than the
nerdy SU alumni and do not want them in their path to amorous conquests. When
a mysterious beautiful woman appears on the beach, the two groups initiate a
contest – and at first it seems that Ernie and his friends stand no chance in
disciplines such as body surfing, bullfighting, and throwing wild parties.

Spellcasting 301 is similar in gameplay to its predecessor. It introduces VGA
graphics, continuous music tracks, and a slight changes to the interface. Like
before, most puzzles rely on clever usage of spells. Spellcasting levels can
be raised by running errands for the local sorcerer guild. In-game time
advances with each action performed by the player, sometimes necessitating
scheduling for various activities. The game has somewhat more explicit sexual
scenes if the player activates its Naughty Mode.

## Mature Content Description
The developers describe the content like this:
_ Sexual situations _

Spellcasting Collection