Simon the sorcerer game Pc#
Simon the sorcerer game free#

Games like Monkey Island also have empty screens to add atmosphere, I'm not saying it's a bad idea necessarily, but Simon the Sorcerer takes it to the next level. Unfortunately the game can't make up its mind if it wants to be a picturesque fantasy adventure or a dumb fairy tale spoof, so there's a lot of time spent walking through the woods admiring the pixelled scenery. Also the music's as beautiful and catchy as it is annoying, perhaps even more so! There's no major gameplay flaws I could pick out here. Which is a good thing for the most part, as it's slick, pretty, and it seems impossible for a player to die or get hopelessly stuck because they didn't pick up an item two hours ago. except made by a completely unrelated team in Britain. I've played a lot of adventures inspired by LucasArts games, but Simon the Sorcerer basically is a LucasArts game. But after a lot of hiking I finally started to run into gameplay and it became an actual point and click adventure with the potential to entertain! He won't even use the invisibility ring! Well screw him then, I'm done with the game.Īt first I was thinking I was going to have to write a miserable conclusion for Simon the Sorcerer, whining about how the game bored me to tears, and I wasn't looking forward to that because this is actually a pretty likeable game. Oh Simon refuses to go over and pick the coins up because he doesn't want to be incinerated, the coward. Hey I found a dragon sitting on a huge pile of gold! I was hoping to see the magic necromancer staff, but fuck it, I could just buy a new one with all that money. So Chippy was Calypso's, then he gave him to Simon, but only as a trick to lure Simon here to rescue him. He apparently tried inserting his friend’s Tetris cart just to make absolutely certain it wasn’t the Game Boy he wanted in disguise, but nope, definitely a dog. Okay I checked the manual, and there's a bit of a story there that explains that Simon got Chippy on his 12th birthday, as a gift wrapped in shiny paper and left on his doorstep (with the spell book in his mouth). Chippy is Calypso's dog now? But he's Simon's dog, we saw that in the intro! Simon was about to throw him into a dryer back in his world. Love and Kisses, Calypso - Grand High Wizard of the Village of Fleur Deli.'įleur Deli, well there's a joke that doesn't work without subtitles.

Simon the sorcerer game free#

Feel free to use my extremely valuable spellbook and dog to assist you. All you have to do is rescue me from the hands of the evil sorcerer, Sordid. 'Dear Simon, I am pleased to announce that you have been chosen, from literally hundreds of hopeful candidates, to perform a death-defying - but extremely worthwhile - quest, for which you will be rewarded quite a lot. It seems he was expected though as there's a note for him on the desk.

I've no idea who's house this is by the way, he just invited himself in here off screen. I clicked the screen to let him know I'm ready to play but he's taking his time putting the thing back into his hat. I took a quick break to write stuff down so he put his Walkman on! Probably to avoid having to listen to the theme tune that's still playing. It's still pretty much the 1993 game as far as I know, and is likely exactly what you'd get from GOG.

Simon the sorcerer game Pc#

I'll be playing the PC CD XP release through Scumm VM, just so you know.

Here, have a YouTube link to the theme so you can permanently burn it into your own brain as well.

I've played Simon the Sorcerer before, I've even beaten the thing (with the help of a walkthrough), but it's been a while and all I remember about it now is the pitiful Swampling inadvertently poisoning Simon with his terrible cooking, and the theme song. This is an entirely unrelated Simon who performs completely different sorcery. Simon the Sorcerer or Simon the Magician, in Latin Simon Magus (Greek Σίμων ὁ μάγος), was a Samaritan magus or religious figure and a convert to Christianity, baptised by Philip the Evangelist, whose later confrontation with Peter is recorded in Acts 8:9–24.īut that's entirely irrelevant as the game's got nothing to do with him. It's also got the subtitle The Original Adventure on my box, but I'm not calling it that.

This week on Super Adventures I'm taking a quick look at classic PC and Amiga adventure game Simon the Sorcerer.