![]() The dog (he called it Chippy) had a strange book in it's mouth that no-one could read. After unsuccessfully trying to install his friends Tetris cart, he was persuaded that it was not a new Gameboy after all. He was surprised when later the doorbell rang and upon opening the door, he discovered a small scruffy looking dog wrapped up in shiny paper. When 'blowing-out-the-candles' time came, Simon wished for a Gameboy from his grandparents and for his older brother to fall down something deep and preferably spiky. Simon took great pleasure in pointing out how these tricks were done to his awe-struck friends and eventually had to be physically restrained by his father to prevent Marvelo the Magician becoming Marvelo the Murderer. He specialised in pulling rabbits out of hats and making seemingly endless quantities of brightly coloured handkerchiefs appear from his mouth. He was having a party, not a modern rave party that 12 year old's have these days, but a quiet English affair with jelly and ice-cream, pin-the-tail on grandma and a magician called Marvelo. Once upon a time It all started on the day of Simon's 12th birthday. It often helps to start with some sort of introduction so here we go Simon is voiced by Chris Barrie (Red Dwarf, plus a ton more shows and a few films) Originally released in 1993 by Adventuresoft for the Amiga and MS-Dos, re-released in 1995 with a full "talkie" soundtrack. I might even see if there's a copy of the Simon The Sorcerer: Puzzle Pack in my parents loft, if there is I might show it off throughout. If you really need to say something that hasn't already been seen in the videos then please spoiler tag it. No spoilers please unless it's already been seen in the videos. Right now I don't see it as necessary, I will provide some commentary for the third game though. I don't plan on providing commentary within the first two games but if there's overwhelming desire for commentary and personal input I'll work it into future videos. ![]() I'll show off all of the dialogue with NPC's where I can, unfortunately they removed the subtitles for the "talkie" re-release of the first Simon game but I will have subtitles turned on for the second and third. I will try to play the games 'as is,' I'll jump cut through location transitions if necessary. I'm planning to post all three games as VLP's, I did consider doing a screenshot LP but it's a lot better hearing the voice acting. As much as I loved the original two games I could never finish the third.Īll three titles can be bought from for $5.99 each, if you decide to purchase all three at once then you will receive a saving of $3.99. The third of the series wasn't so highly praised, I will go into more detail when I 'LP' the game as there's a lot to talk about with it. What makes the series even more unique is that the characters are (mostly) voiced by British actors, the humour is very distinctly British and the games don't even try to take themselves seriously. The original two games where praised highly by game critics upon release. They really are great adventure games, for a time when the genre had been dominated by a lot of big US names, this little known British company delivered something that was easily on par with some of the more well known adventure games. So what's so great about the original trilogy? They're decent adventure games in their own rights but the only similarities that can be made is the name of the series and several of the character names. I'm not knocking Germany or the USA, but for a very distinctly British series it became very distinctly un-British. Not only did a German company take over, the English version was voiced by American actors. The first was five years after the release of Simon The Sorcerer 3D, the second instalment was released two years afterwards. ![]() The first three games were developed by Adventuresoft, two more releases followed by a German company called Silver Style Entertainment who bought the rights to the series. Three games? Wasn't there more released several years ago? Simon is a teenager who is magically teleported to a fantasy land and has to do the usual point-and-click affair of puzzles and quests. Even though the games are set in a fantasy world, they're more set to be a parody of popular fantasies rather than trying to shoe horn the series into the genre. Simon the Sorcerer is a series of point-and-click adventure games created by Adventuresoft, well, the first three were anyway, well, the third wasn't point-and-click but we'll get onto that later.
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