Graphics are the strong point of an adventure game, and Simon 4 is no exception, with a variety of beautifully detailed, pre-rendered, hand-drawn backgrounds and expressive characters that perfectly fit the fantasy theme. On the plus side, the conversations are mostly entertaining and feature many branches with uniquely tailored responses. The preview build is also let down by a fair number of typos in the subtitles and hotspot text that should hopefully be tidied up before the game's release. Curiously enough, though, the script seems to have been penned by English writers, littered as it is with words such as, "git," "blimey" and "bloke," yet Simon is voiced by an American actor, and some of these colloquialisms come out sounding a bit off the mark. That's an ancient rule."), and some of these are the best jokes in the game.Īn important part of the delivery of these humorous elements is in the quality of the voice acting, which is fairly solid. The series is also well known for its self-referential humor where it pokes fun at itself and adventure games in general ("If you're in an adventure game and you see a rope, take it. Very little in the world is spared the wrath of irreverent parody, and there are plenty of moments that should bring a smile to your face. All of the environments are littered with irrelevant objects waiting for Simon to make a wry quip or sarcastic remark about. The game succeeds best in its clever blend of the totally mundane with fairy tale magic, resulting in some well-written moments of surreal humor, such as the ad for a werewolf's self-help group. True to the series, there are plenty of laughs in this vein throughout Simon 4, although there's a bit of hit-and-miss humor, too. Simon's Magic Kingdom is a kind of rotten underbelly of fairy tale existence that you might expect to see when the cameras go off and the tourists leave. ![]() The Big Bad Wolf is a depressed and cowardly alcoholic without any direction, and the bridge-guarding troll is a greedy entrepreneur. Goldilocks is a fake blonde wearing a wig to con her way through life as a master thief. Little Red Riding Hood is an abhorrent brat armed with pepper spray and a feisty anti-man attitude. First off, this is not the rodent-based theme park in Florida but is populated with a host of fairy tale characters gone horribly wrong. Especially for you, here is a brief primer on the alternate dimension Simon occupies, known as the Magic Kingdom. Some of you may be new to Simon and as a result, the frequent in-jokes will be lost like little children in the dark woods. Fans will instantly recognize the gags, the Magic Kingdom landscape and a host of characters who return to reprise their past roles. ![]() Of course, now we don't have to run boot disks to get our games to work and the graphics are a little better, but Simon is still the same witty teenager clad in his often-mocked red robe and pointy wizard's hat he also has the same unstoppable tendency of being obnoxious to everyone he meets as he engages in accidental heroics. ![]() Back then, Simon was an ordinary teenager transported by a spell book into a realm of twisted fairy tale characters who he ruthlessly insulted and derided with his special brand of wit and sarcasm. Well sonny, put down your crazy motion-sensing toys for a second, and come listen while granddad takes you back to 1993, when the first Simon the Sorcerer game was released for PCs. Unless adventure games happen to be your thing, you might be wondering who the hell Simon is that he deserves four games in his uninspiring name. This is where you come in, undoing the mess left by your double and thwarting a conspiracy that threatens the kingdom and re-getting the girl. Returning from his remote control-induced head trauma, he wastes no time using his energy drink-powered wardrobe to hop dimensions to the Magic Kingdom, where he is unceremoniously dumped by Alix and discovers that a doppelganger "Simon" has been impersonating him and creating all sorts of chaos. While his lights are out, he has a dream in which his alter-dimension girlfriend, Alix, pleads for his heroic assistance. Set some years after his last experiments in 3-D, Simon the Sorcerer 4 begins as Simon is knocked unconscious by a TV remote hurled at him by his bratty brother. For non-Deutsch-speaking adventure gamers everywhere else, however, the wait is nearly over as Playlogic prepares to release Simon the Sorcerer 4: Chaos Happens to the rest of the world. Simon the Sorcerer, much like bronzed Baywatch star David "the Hoff" Hasselhoff, is apparently quite popular in Germany, where the fourth part of this point-and-click adventure has been available for nearly a year now.
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