Once you actually start playing, you quickly realise that this is not the game you played two years ago. These are not the only things that give this game an air of maturity. By the time we see Runt and Sordid in the new improved fortress of evil, already the animators have added some impressive perspective shots to the usual flat 2D animations with Sordid leering over a balcony at Runt standing by a pool. Immediately we meet a new character by the name of Runt, who manages to resurrect Simon’s old nemesis Sordid.
The images you are greeted with seem to resemble a full-blown prologue rather than a few small animations interspersed with credits to set the scene as was seen in the first instalment. Yet despite all these recognisable elements, there’s something more grown-up about what you see. The music that made Simon 1 what it was strikes up and the same 256 colours fade onto the screen.
Within a second of starting Simon 2, you know where you are. My firm belief in life is that “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.” Don’t get me wrong I realise that change can be a good thing - after all, we wouldn’t have the SCUMM engine if someone hadn’t thought “typing in verbs is such a waste of time,” and just look at Day Of The Tentacle compared to Maniac Mansion, But I have to say I was most relieved back in 1995 to fire up my copy of Simon the Sorcerer 2: The Lion, The Wizard and The Wardrobe and be greeted with something very familiar. I like the “Golden Age of Point & Click” and I like the fact that Linkin Park’s second album is just Hybrid Theory part 2. Well, you pretty much have two options: either make something cutting edge and supremely different, but run the risk of it being a crashing failure or, stick with what you know and do an almost exact replica.
#WHERE WAS SIMON THE SORCERER FROM SERIES#
You have a successful first part of a series that has become popular with people all over the world, you have already hyped up the sequel with the end sequence of the first game, and you probably have a far more impressive budget for production. So if you were Adventuresoft, what would you do?
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