History VideoGame / Enchanter

* BagOfSpilling: The only three spells to make it through all three games in the series are GNUSTO, FROTZ, and REZROV. IZYUK is the only other spell from ''Enchanter'' to make it to ''Sorcerer'', while YOMIN and MALYON are the only two spells from ''Sorcerer'' to make it to ''Spellbreaker''. Justified in both cases. You lose your spellbook and most of your heavier possessions near the end of ''Enchanter'', thus explaining why you don't have most of those spells in ''Sorcerer''. Additionally, in ''Spellbreaker'', magic is falling apart at the seams and much of your spellbook has been rendered useless.

* BagOfSpilling: The only three spells to make it through all three games in the series are GNUSTO, FROTZ, and REZROV. IZYUK is the only other spell from ''Enchanter'' to make it to ''Sorcerer'', while YOMIN and MALYON are the only two spells from ''Sorcerer'' to make it to ''Spellbreaker''. Justified in both cases. You lose your spellbook and most of your heavier possessions near the end of ''Enchanter'', thus explaining why you don't have most of those spells in ''Sorcerer''. Likewise, you ruin your spellbook at the end of ''Sorcerer'' by diving underwater. Additionally, in ''Spellbreaker'', magic is falling apart at the seams and much of your spellbook has been rendered useless.

** Some of the names would fit more into ItIsPronouncedTroPAY, as in ''Sorcerer'' Jeearr is pronounced "JAY-ur" rather than "Jee-ARE" (which is ironic, since [[IronicName Jeearr's name is derived from the Hebrew word meaning "enlightenment"]]); and Helistar is pronounced "HEE-lie-star" rather than "HELL-lih-star".

* BillboardEpic: In ''Enchanter'', if you keep going west from where you started at the Eastern Fork, you can read the signs that go like this:
-->Why\\
are\\
you\\
going\\
west\\
when\\
the\\
castle\\
is\\
east?\\
[[Advertising/BurmaShave Burma\\
Shave]].

** In ''Spellbreaker,'' [[spoiler: allow the Shadow to complete the cubic ritual and [[AGodAmI become omnipotent]]. If you take the first step needed to stop the ritual but not the second, you instead destroy the world (getting the same rank)]].

* BittersweetEnding: ''Spellbreaker'' for the entire trilogy; [[spoiler:to not only foil the Shadow but also prevent [[ViciousCycle another one from someday arising from within another powerful sorcerer who may succeed where yours failed]], you are forced to [[TheMagicGoesAway recreate the entire universe without magic]].]]
* BlackCloak: As part of EvilWearsBlack: The large, black-robed figure in the Temple, [[spoiler:which is later revealed to be the BigBad Krill himself.]]
* BlackComedy: There is some throughout the entire series, but the funniest part has to go to ''Sorcerer'':
-->>e\\
Entering the ocean is certain death.\\
>enter ocean\\
Certain death.
* BottomlessPits: There is one that is a result of the KULCAD spell on the Endless Stairs in ''Enchanter'', and since it's ''literally'' bottomless, [[AndIMustScream you'll eventually die]] [[IFellForHours from falling forever]].
* Advertising/BurmaShave: In ''Enchanter'', if you keep going west from where you started at the Eastern Fork, you can read the signs that go like this:

Burma\\
Shave.

* BagOfSpilling: The only three spells to make it through all three games in the series are GNUSTO, FROTZ, and REZROV. IZYUK is the only other spell from ''Enchanter'' to make it to ''Sorcerer'', while YOMIN and MALYON are the only two spells from ''Sorcerer'' to make it to ''Spellbreaker''. Justified in both cases. You lose your spellbook and most of your heavier possessions near the end of ''Enchanter'', thus explaining why you don't have most of those spells in ''Sorcerer''. In ''Spellbreaker'', magic is falling apart at the seams and much of your spellbook has been rendered useless.

** Some of the spell names; for instance, NITFOL, which lets you talk to the animals, is named after Creator/HughLofting, author of the ''Literature/DoctorDolittle'' books, while YOMIN, which lets you mind-probe, is named after the late great Creator/LeonardNimoy, the actor who played Mr. Spock in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise.

* BagOfSpilling: The only three spells to make it through all three games in the series are GNUSTO, FROTZ, and REZROV. IZYUK is the only other spell from ''Enchanter'' to make it to ''Sorcerer'', while YOMIN and MALYON are the only two spells from ''Sorcerer'' to make it to ''Spellbreaker''.

* DownerEnding: In each game there is the possibility of screwing up ''so badly'' that you are awarded a massively negative score and the title Enemy of Humanity:

** In ''Spellbreaker,'' [[spoiler: allow the Shadow to complete the cubic ritual and [[AGodAmI become omnipotent]]]].

-->The gate flies open, waking the gnome, who leaps up and slams it closed again. "Hey! This is a toll gate! Nobody gets through here without paying [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings the one zorkmid toll]]. [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Not nobody, not nohow.]]"

-->[[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland What rabbit? I guess he was late for something.]]

* CuttingTheKnot: In ''Enchanter'', there is a jeweled egg with all the Gordian handles and buttons needed to open it. There are a few ways to open it, and besides the time-consuming way, you either break the egg to get a shredded scroll, or you can use the REZROV spell on the egg... [[SelfDestructingSecurity only for the egg to open and reveal a shredded scroll anyway]]. The puzzle isn't opening the egg, it's [[spoiler: fixing the scroll]].

* SelfDestructingSecurity: In ''Enchanter'' there's an mechanical egg with a scroll inside. No matter how you open it, the egg shreds the scroll so it's unusable. You later get a spell that allows you to reconstitute the scroll and learn the spell on it.

* OneUp: In ''Sorcerer'', there is the GASPAR spell that can be quite useful, acting as a lifesaver if you cast it in one resurrection point and then get killed in some dangerous place, like the infamous Glass Maze, for example.

[[CaptainObvious Certain death.]]

* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Toward the end of ''Enchanter'', [[spoiler:when you come face to face with Krill, he seems utterly surprised to see you alive, as he thought he had killed you in a HumanSacrifice ritual in front of his hairy slaves]]. This is also {{Justified|Trope}}, since you had [[AutoRevive the OZMOO spell on yourself]] to help you cheat death.

* SlainInTheirSleep: Throughout the series, you can fall into this if you attempt to sleep in dangerous places. In ''Sorcerer'', [[spoiler:Belboz (actually in a trance) could end up like this if you decide to kill him with the GemEncrusted enchanted dagger.]]

** ''Sorcerer'' averts this, because if you die without casting the GASPAR spell, it's also an immediate Game Over.
** ''Spellbreaker'' has the same thing as in ''Enchanter'', but this time, a shadowy figure will give you another chance at the Boneyard if you die. But you have to be careful though: die too many times, and it's Game Over for you. Averted, however, in the Enchanter's Retreat (the place for the Connectivity Cube): if you attempt to cast magic on Belboz, he'll imprison you below the earth and kill you, resulting in an instant Game Over (no ifs, ands, or buts).

* WizardNeedsFoodBadly: ''Enchanter'' requires you to eat regularly, or else die of starvation. Players found this so annoying that very early in ''Sorcerer'' you obtain a magical potion that enables you to go without food and water almost indefinitely. ''Spellbreaker'' [[AvertedTrope dispenses with starvation mechanics entirely]].

* ApocalypseHow: In ''Enchanter'' you enter a village that is suffering Regional Societal Collapse, as only an old woman lives in a hovel. By the time you explore the castle, the days grow darker and darker as time passes, and Krill's doing is turning everything into nearly Planetary Single-Dominant Species Extinction.

* BadEnding: In each game there is the possibility of screwing up ''so badly'' that you are awarded a massively negative score and the title Enemy of Humanity:
** In ''Enchanter,'' [[spoiler: make BigBad Krill irrelevant by releasing the [[EldritchAbomination Unseen Terror]]]].
** In ''Sorcerer,'' [[spoiler: release Jeearr from Belboz's body without shielding your own mind, allowing it to possess your younger, stronger form]].
** In ''Spellbreaker,'' [[spoiler: allow the Shadow to complete the cubic ritual and [[AGodAmI become omnipotent]]]].

* BittersweetEnding: ''Spellbreaker'' for the entire trilogy; [[spoiler:to not only foil the Shadow but also prevent [[ViciousCycle another one from someday arising from within another powerful sorcerer who may succeed where yours failed]], you are forced to recreate the entire universe without magic.]]

** Spellbreaker is this for the trilogy itself. [[spoiler:The ultimate source of the problems is InherentInTheSystem, since any sufficiently powerful sorcerer will have an evil shadow; and even if you were to win, it would only be a matter of time until one managed to destroy everything. Of course, you ''don't'' even manage to win cleanly, leading to a DownerEnding.]]

* CopyProtection: Only two games in the series each have one: In ''Sorcerer'', you need to unlock the trunk containing the AIMFIZ spell in the cellar of the Guild Hall by looking up the creature name in Belboz's journal and referring to the Infotater (packaged within the game) to search for the combination color code for one of the twelve creatures in said Infotater. And in ''Spellbreaker'', when Belboz asks you a test question in the String Room, you'll need to look up the six Enchanter Cards (also packaged) to find the correct answer in one of them so that he'll give you a key for later use.

* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: In ''Sorcerer'', the entire Guild Hall being sacked and destroyed is the result of waking up earlier from a dream instead of staying in and waiting for the Hellhound to kill you. Also counts as a PressStartToGameOver.

** In ''Enchanter'', the Kulcad scroll can only be used once. It cancels magic. Since every puzzle you encounter is basically a magical trap, the spell allows you to "cheat" your way past any one puzzle in the game. Doing this gives you no warning that you've done anything wrong -- until you get to the endgame and lack the spell you need to win.

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: The first scene of ''Sorcerer'' is absolutely brutal, and you escape from one peril to another like some kind of DeathCourse. [[It's AllJustADream, though you end up in a less-deadly version of the same location later.]]

* ChekhovsBoomerang: The GIRGOL spell in ''Spellbreaker''. And it has to be used at the last second the first time around. [[spoiler:It will soon come back to help you once again toward the end of the game, provided that you copy it onto a blank scroll and get the BigBad to paralyze you in an earlier time of the final confrontation.]]

* CuttingTheKnot: In ''Enchanter'', there is a jeweled egg with all the Gordian handles and buttons needed to open it. There are a few ways to open it, and besides the time-consuming way, you either break the egg to get a shredded scroll, or you can use the REZROV spell on the egg... [[SelfDestructingSecurity only for the egg to open and reveal a shredded scroll anyway]] (don't worry, it just needs repairing).

** In ''Enchanter,'' [[spoiler: make BigBad Krill irrelevant by releasing the [[EldritchAbomination Unseen Terror]].