There are some things that kids just shouldn't have to put up with. Being transported to some weird dimension full of goblins, dwarves, swamplings, stupid wizards and sleeping giants is definitely one of them.
After escaping a "welcoming party", Simon discovers that he has been brought on a quest to...
There are some things that kids just shouldn't have to put up with. Being transported to some weird dimension full of goblins, dwarves, swamplings, stupid wizards and sleeping giants is definitely one of them.
After escaping a "welcoming party", Simon discovers that he has been brought on a quest to rescue the wizard Calypso from the evil sorcerer Sordid.
In the last 25 years, the 'Simon the Sorcerer' game series has made millions of players fall in love with Simon.
Now you can relive the renowned original adventure in a whole new way!
Simon The Sorcerer: 25th Anniversary Edition features:
Totally new, much praised, game play controls that were built from the ground up.
Hotspot based - no more pixel hunting!
All-new slick icons and animations.
Quick actions using right-click.
Completely new game menus and save/load system
Four Music options: New stereo recording and the Original music in MT-32, General MIDI or AdLib
High-end graphics upscaling (xBRZ filter)
Optional retro settings: play with original graphics, original music and even the original controls
Multiple languages:
English voice acting, with the option for adding subtitles in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Russian
I’m a big fan of point-and-click adventure games, but this one never crossed my radar in the US back in the day. I played it thru on iOS. The interface yields itself perfectly to the touch screen. The graphics are superb. The puzzles are challenging but manageable. The story is a little vague and bland.
In reading through other reviews, it sounds as though this wasn’t well received by fans of the original. So I guess if you are nostalgic for the 90s game, just play that instead. But this game is stellar on its own merits.
All these 1 star reviews are really unfounded, it's a great game whether the remaster features suck or not. I have the android version of this one and it contains the original graphics version along with all the added features, so you still have the fall back if you don't want the new stuff. Even with the updates it still plays through the game fine. There's nothing game-breaking with this.
I don't really care for the smoothed graphics because you lose a lot of the original detail, but sometimes it's nice to not look at pixelated graphics. This is very similar to the remastered Monkey Island games. The best feature is the hotspot identifier, though it's a bit of a cheat for adventure games. The original version of this game had some very difficult pixel hunt spots to find, so hotspot is nice if you want to beat this without a walkthrough. Being able to listen to all the different music synth versions is really neat because even though they're technically the same, the music sounds different between synths.
If you don't already have Simon the Sorcerer original version, buy this version, it's great for what it is. Otherwise there's not much reason to buy this one other than a couple minor feature adds and proper updated Windows support.
I just had the oportunity to Simon for a few hours back then- but it remembered me a lot of the Lucas Arts games- the humor was spot on :)
In contrast to all the 1 Star reviews- give it 5 Stars... Why ? Because it runs perfectly and you can switch it to pixels instead of the horrible interpolished version.
Why so mad, bros?
I was sad because I had issues with saving the game (or even exit the game), but as the support is saying, you just have to change the parameters to ''Run as Administrator'' and everything works fine. I like the changes visually. For those who likes the older version, I can tell that it comes too with this game. Everybody is happy now! Happy gaming!
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