Outrageous! Commodore Amiga star, Simon the Sorcerer, would never get away with saying that today!

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Published on September 9, 2021 10:22:13 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El607yKQzmA

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Simon the Sorcerer II: The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe (1995)

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Simon the Sorcerer's clicky-pointy-talky adventure game franchise is notorious for its conspicuous, risque dialogue and politically incorrect characters. Our wannabe-wizard-protagonist's decline into casual racism, homophobia, misogyny and infantile schoolboy humour largely began with the second title in the series, 'The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe', so I hereby present a selection of the best-worst examples… with a lot of help from MadMatty's PC DOS longplay as found at World of Longplays. Simon the Sorcerer 1 is pretty tame and good-natured in comparison.

It all goes to prove that hedonistically horrible heroes can be aspirational and likeable too… or does it?

I considered producing contemporary you-can't-say-anything-these-days woke translations for the dodgy dialogue, voicing each of the different characters myself. For all of ten seconds anyway. Then I decided that life's too short and sloped off to watch 'The Birth of a Nation' instead.

You can download my free ebooks covering the first two instalments in the Simon the Sorcerer series from...

https://archive.org/details/simon-the-sorcerer-dreamkatcha-review

https://archive.org/details/simon-the-sorcerer-2-dreamkatcha-review

Adventure Soft went on to sabotage their own venerated franchise with the advent of Simon the Sorcerer 3D. German developers, Silver Style, bought the rights to continue this descent into hell, hammering the final nail in Simon's coffin upon release of STS 5: Who'd Even Want Contact?!? Well, exactly. I only mention that they're German because it makes it seem all the more bizarre that they'd award the role of voicing British Simon to an American and then not release the game in the US.

Another ebook article of mine explains how Adventure Soft buried their own beloved point and click adventure game franchise before passing Simon's corpse to Silver Style Entertainment who proceeded to dance on his overgrown, abandoned grave...

https://archive.org/details/simon-the-sorcerer-rise-and-demise-dreamkatcha

It's a cheery tale full of positivity, rainbows and fluffy clouds. Enjoy!