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. 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. 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. Even now, when I think of Simon the Sorcerer, that’s exactly why swampling music came to mind before theme music.This week on Super Adventures I'm taking a quick look at classic PC and Amiga adventure game Simon the Sorcerer. It has nothing to do with me playing the game at a younger age, and even though I played it many times afterwards, I always had the same feelings in the same place, always with the same music. Simon the Sorcerer is intrinsically a funny game, just like the Monkey Island series, but I’ve always been saddened by swampling’s story. When he finishes his stint, he thinks we love him so much, he goes out to collect new ingredients, so we leave this denunciation behind us and move on. We’re eating plates of swamp stew with our faces turned green, because it’s the only way out of that house without upsetting Swampling. When he couldn’t stand the smell of food and turned down his offer, he said, “I thought it was my first birthday friend ever. Poor Swampling’s already alone, he doesn’t have any friends, he’ll be even sadder if we don’t taste his st not. Maybe we don’t have cake, but he’s cooked swamp stew made from swamp mud, the recipe of which has been passed down from generation to generation, and he insists that we eat it. No one came to celebrate his birthday because he didn’t have a single friend, but he still didn’t give up hope, thinking, “Sooner or later, we’ll have company and we’ll celebrate.” That’s why he’s doing everything he can to make us happy. When we walk into his house in the swamp, he’s overjoyed because finally someone remembers him!
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