The barman is enjoying the business boost provided by all the Sordid-hunting heroes coming to town, and apparently disappearing without a trace Simon can order a Wet Wizard, but the bar is short on sparrow juice similar ingredient issues afflict the Warlock Surprise and the Cool Red Witch. We can also try Simon's worst pickup lines, to no positive effect aside from learning there's an armorer in Northgate. We can talk to a pair of nubile Valkyries to gain some information about Sordid - they are here to battle him too - and the Tower - someone called the Druid may be able to help. The Drunken Druid is reputedly the local wizard hangout, populated by the standard fantasy world characters.
It should be a good source for ingredients later, but we have no reason or ability to buy anything just now.
The shop has cake, cosmetics, beans, corn, flour, and many other items for sale. He also has a supposed strength potion and an illusory invisibility amulet, neither of which really seem to work or can actually be purchased we can also try to sell him any of Simon's possessions, though he doesn't seem interested in any of them.Ī general store run by a two-headed punk shopkeeper suffers at the hands of its argumentative proprietor(s), from whom Simon can try to get information about Sordid, Carmen Miranda (apparently a Carmen Sandiego joke), and the square root of 1369. Near a pond with geese swimming in it, a dodgy geezer is peddling his wares - "priceless" figurines, one gold piece per. A tapestry on the wall features strange symbols that we can't apparently make any sense of yet, so it's time to go out and explore the world.Ī muscular blacksmith to the east is beating a red-hot implement on his anvil he's too engrossed in his work for conversation, and the forge door behind him is locked. Unlike Guybrush Threepwood, Simon is a reluctant hero, none too happy to be stuck here in this magical land and forced to run errands hither and yon some of the most memorable humor comes from his breaking the fourth wall to comment on the absurdities of the genre.Ĭalypso's fridge is stuck shut, but we can obtain a pair of scissors from the drawer in his desk. There's a visible and audible Monkey Island influence here - the music and the general style of the game and character animation call that classic to mind, but that isn't a bad thing and this one has a distinctly British character. We also learn that the dog actually belongs to Calypso, which explains a few things about the plot to this point. Simon acquires a magic postcard for saving and restoring, and a map permitting convenient fast-travel around the game's world as major landmarks are discovered. Beyond this point, be advised that I will be documenting my experience from beginning to end, and there are certain to be.Īfter an opening and amusing credits sequence in which our 14-year-old hero Simon tries and fails to pull off an impressive array of hat-based magic tricks, his dog Chippy lures him into opening an old spell book, creating a warp that takes us into a magical land where Simon finds himself on the verge of becoming dinner for some goblins.Īfter a timely rescue by Chippy, Simon finds himself in a magician's home where a note has been left - he is asked to rescue the good sorcerer Calypso from the evil Sordid, but must first become a wizard by consulting the wizards in a nearby tavern.
It's still available commercially directly from AdventureSoft and also from and it can be run on many modern platforms using the ScummVM interpreter. I always encourage interested readers to play these games before reading my comments - Simon the Sorcerer is fun to play, and more importantly it's not at all hard to come by. The puzzle design is a little rough around the edges - too many potential solutions aren't really acknowledged as such, and object hunting is often the primary requirement - but the story is fun and well plotted.
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The style permits plenty of detail and puts most of the Sierra adventures' painted-and-scanned art to shame, and Kevin Preston's animation of Simon is full of personality. The background artwork is really beautiful, calling to mind the best of the Amiga era but in 256-color VGA, with Paul Drummond and his team using limited colors and more shades to produce some very nice effects. I'm surprised this game isn't better known in the States - it's well-written and often quite funny, with deeply nested puzzles, colorful characters and decent performances including Chris Barrie as young Simon.
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