There's no way "finding wizards at the pub to learn wizardry by collecting stuff for them" was lifted straight from Monkey Island 1... nope, no way at all...
Absolutely. Everytime I leave the town and enter the forest for the first time and the music switches, I see the leaves, trees and squires walk around, help out a giant from a pin in his foot etc. I get enchanted.
This game is phenomenal. I personally think you undersold how good it is. All the way from jokes to the gameplay. You moan about how long the cutscenes are but it was ace as it meant there were less loading screens between. This will always be nostalgic for me.
That's all subjective. It seems like you don't really get that, or you're letting your nostalgia blind you to the subjective nature of reviews. Humor especially is based on opinions.
Ever since I was a kid, the Forest theme plays in my head everytime I'm walking through one, without fail. On a side note, I always found it weird how the Simon 1 boxart has Simon 2 Sordid on it, but Simon 2's boxart has Simon 1 Sordid on it
The general atmosphere, personality, art and music of Simon 1 makes it my favourite point and click game which I enjoyed replaying many times. You could feel the charm put into it.
Okay, I kinda like that the whole “become a wizard” objective doesn’t get any real progress until halfway through the video. Knowing how these games are, there’s something I like about what seems like an early starting objective actually being one of the last ones you complete.
I actually grew up with Red Dwarf too, despite being American. And by “grew up with it”, I mean grew up around it and watched it properly when I was a bit older. Short version: parents found it late one night and recorded on a whim, which sent my older brother down the Dwarf rabbit hole.
Awful memories time summarized: - Was a kid in the 90s. - Tried Simon the Sorcerer on a multi-game CD. - It was password protected. - Spent the whole morning trying to crack password. - Password Status: Cracked - Intro of the game cutscene: (played) - Lunch status: "Arriving so go tf to eat!" - Lunch status: "Finished!" - My stepdad: "Aight, Imma log out of this game my kid is playing so I can work!" - My reaction: YOU DID WHAAAAT? I WAS WORKING ON THAT! - Password: Still needs cracking. - Me: F this 💩 Im out!
Definitely don't blame Chris Barrie for the voicing. If you've listened to the Red Dwarf books on audio, you'll know just how great he is for voice recording
20:33 Fun fact. I actually used this solution to break back into my house once when I was locked out. The back door was an old one and there was enough space to get the key out under the door once I'd jiggled it out of the keyhole. Another fun fact is that doing this can damage the lock and I ended up having to replace it soon after.
I love listening to you talk about adventure games. I never knew Simon was originally going to be a Discworld game, but that makes a whole bunch of sense. I miss my Amiga and good old adventure games.
This is giving me the most bizarre sense of nostalgia. I played it a while as a kid and absolutely hated parts of it… but something about the art style and the comedic writing really stuck with me over the years. Great overview of it all.
Oh my god, you just unlocked so much memories of playing this game as a kid. I played it so much; the music is ingrained into me, and I just loved the humour, even if my version had no voice-acting. ...and came on nine floppy disks. ...with labels written in marker. I'm... starting to realise that the games my mum got me _may_ have been cracked versions. _...ahem,_ well, decades-old shadiness aside, thank you for allowing me to finally hear a sample of the voice-acting. Shame, my mum loved Red Dwarf and Chris Barrie in particular; I think she would've liked to have heard more voice clips of him.
I loved this game as a kid, still loving it now. 2 is... a mixed bag. I think Simon's character arc is that of getting worse as time goes on. I would however be curious as to how the sequels beyond 3 go, like 4 and such. Never been able to get them to work, so just knowing what happens would be interesting, let alone what puzzles and jokes it contains...
I remember playing the first Simon on the Amiga and it had a very special charm, then played it on PC and hearing Chris Barries voice made it even more amazing, it just defines british humour and style and love playing it to this day.
One thing you may not have noticed, you can press F10 to indicate any interactibles in a scene. It helps eliminate the pixel hunting, or at least the wondering whether that mess of pixels is something or not.
Never been the biggest fan of this game as much as I've liked the sprite art, though I may need to give it a second chance after seeing this. Speaking of the sprites, I hope we get some more indie adventure games that take cues from this artstyle.
Simon the Sorcerer 2 is such a great game, creators f up the potential in it, 3d was pure abomination. I did play 2nd with polish dubbing, at times it was heavily polluted, I have no idea what was going on in record studio, but overall it did fit in the climate of the game. But because of it, british accent was definitely lost.
You mention around 27:00 that structuring the video was difficult and, having seen how this game plays so far, I'm actually convinced you deserve a medal for things managing to be as coherent as they are
I also love mint chocolate chip ice cream! 🍨 Nice to see a new video from you, and my condolences in advance for when you re-play “Simon the Sorcerer” 2 & 3. 😬
There is a fantastic small animation in this game when you find magic circle from the intro and leave the area you can notice a falcon hunting a mouse or other rodent. So many visually stunning things are hidden in this game.
I always enjoy your explorations of these games! I love how you're able to talk about them in their historical context given your thorough knowledge of the genre!
"Ped-" does mean relating to feet; look at words like pedestrian, pedestal, pedal... So you can see where they get it from. ("Pod-" of course means the same thing, in words like podiatry, etc.) This being an English game, it's "pæd-" that means relating to children (in words like pædiatrics, encylopædia, etc.), so it definitely wouldn't mean that (they'd have written pædophobe for scared of children).
I liked the syncro in the german Version. It was pretty good back in 93. One of the first wich was fully translated in german. Good memories with simon 1 and 2. Still love these two games. Still got the original CD releases.
I still have flashbacks to pixel hunting pebbles. There's like four grey-green pebbles hidden on the ground which you need to find, all of which are extremely well hidden and not telegraphed in any way. I completely missed the hint pebble in front of the dwarf cave, because why would I think to look there? Turns out that password can be brute-forced, though... I do feel like the game is pretty solid but could be dramatically improved simply by having all the characters speak 50% faster.
During his adventure, Simon uses a few spells; the invisible one, the shrinking, the flying broom. He was already a sorcerer and didn't need to wind the wand. Nice 🙂
I never beat this as a kid when I had it on the amiga 500. There was just sooooo much going on and I hated how slow he walked l. Only ever got to the goblin hideout. Even wTching you play it makes me think it's too much haha. The box art was kick ass though I remember that!
This was a huge nostalgic blast from the past for me so thanks very much for the video! Whenever you showed inside shots of the Drunken Druid I found myself staring intently at the matchbox on top of the slot machine... Decades later, I still think of THAT matchbox as the most cursed item in the entire game i.e the one item that took me days and days of strenuous searching before I finally spied that tiny collection of pixels on the far left of the screen! BUT! Apart from that... Yeah, I'm still hugely fond of Simon 1 and 2 many years later... even if Simon gets more sociopathic as the games continue!
12:09 imagine if that stream was like the Bolton Strid (which it kind of looks like), that troll would have a horrible death, making this way more violent of a scene.
I haven't watched your videoes in way to long, but decided to get reacquainted with you, and this was a ton of fun. It seems like I have a lot to catch up with,because this was really fun and charming.
As much as I loved the game when I was a kid, the lack of a plot and a good villain you don't just meet the first time on the last screen really bothers me...
When this game came out I was 7 years old and it was so amazing. Simon 1 and 2 in my opinion have the greatest pixel art of all time. As I got older my opinion of the series changed and I decided that the first game is by far the best, because while it is humourous, it takes its world and story seriously, and therefore is a fantasy world that you can become immersed in. 2 and 3 descended into lame satire, and are therefore just not as captivating to me as an adult. And they are also quite mean spirited. But I still love them (even 3, somehow).
The pedophobic wasnt actually that wrong though. Foot in latin is pes, plural pedes. Pedometer is a device that counts the number of steps. Fear of feet is technically podophobia but I assume the misspelling is the joke.
It's probably a typo, in English, things involving children is "paed" as opposed to American "ped" They probably mixed up the ped of "pedestrian" and "pod" of podiatry.
It's ironic in a video about how British the game is that he should get confused by the American mis-spelling of paed (to mean child) and the English use of ped (to mean foot).
There's no way "finding wizards at the pub to learn wizardry by collecting stuff for them" was lifted straight from Monkey Island 1... nope, no way at all...
The backgroundart in Simon is just incredibly amazing.
Absolutely. Everytime I leave the town and enter the forest for the first time and the music switches, I see the leaves, trees and squires walk around, help out a giant from a pin in his foot etc. I get enchanted.
And some of the animations. There is actual wild life around the forest you can notice.
Like the squirrels
This game is phenomenal. I personally think you undersold how good it is. All the way from jokes to the gameplay. You moan about how long the cutscenes are but it was ace as it meant there were less loading screens between. This will always be nostalgic for me.
not so sure if cutscenes did reduce loading times back then.... but people weren't as impatient as today. The pace of games was just slower sometimes
That's all subjective. It seems like you don't really get that, or you're letting your nostalgia blind you to the subjective nature of reviews. Humor especially is based on opinions.
Ever since I was a kid, the Forest theme plays in my head everytime I'm walking through one, without fail.
On a side note, I always found it weird how the Simon 1 boxart has Simon 2 Sordid on it, but Simon 2's boxart has Simon 1 Sordid on it
They must have tought out the whole Story from part one and two before. Because I always tought the same, confused by the box Art.
Friendly reminder that if Scarfulhu reached 50k subscribers he will re-review Simon the Sorceror 3D
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Scarf's potential video future is looking great. So close...
Aaaand it's there.
The general atmosphere, personality, art and music of Simon 1 makes it my favourite point and click game which I enjoyed replaying many times. You could feel the charm put into it.
That pixel art is some of the best I've seen from that era.
That Simon 3d Cow is magnificent. DO NOT BULLY.
Okay, I kinda like that the whole “become a wizard” objective doesn’t get any real progress until halfway through the video. Knowing how these games are, there’s something I like about what seems like an early starting objective actually being one of the last ones you complete.
"They paywalled wizardry!"
Can't believe Simon the Sorcerer predicted Hogwarts Mystery
I actually grew up with Red Dwarf too, despite being American. And by “grew up with it”, I mean grew up around it and watched it properly when I was a bit older. Short version: parents found it late one night and recorded on a whim, which sent my older brother down the Dwarf rabbit hole.
Awful memories time summarized:
- Was a kid in the 90s.
- Tried Simon the Sorcerer on a multi-game CD.
- It was password protected.
- Spent the whole morning trying to crack password.
- Password Status: Cracked
- Intro of the game cutscene: (played)
- Lunch status: "Arriving so go tf to eat!"
- Lunch status: "Finished!"
- My stepdad: "Aight, Imma log out of this game my kid is playing so I can work!"
- My reaction: YOU DID WHAAAAT? I WAS WORKING ON THAT!
- Password: Still needs cracking.
- Me: F this 💩 Im out!
Thank GoG for the revamp!
I think Simon was being sarcastic when he said he was going to put his dog in the dryer.
Definitely don't blame Chris Barrie for the voicing. If you've listened to the Red Dwarf books on audio, you'll know just how great he is for voice recording
20:33 Fun fact. I actually used this solution to break back into my house once when I was locked out. The back door was an old one and there was enough space to get the key out under the door once I'd jiggled it out of the keyhole. Another fun fact is that doing this can damage the lock and I ended up having to replace it soon after.
It feels like the same puzzle appears in several games (e.g. Alone in the Dark 2), makes me wonder if there is a list :-D
I love listening to you talk about adventure games. I never knew Simon was originally going to be a Discworld game, but that makes a whole bunch of sense. I miss my Amiga and good old adventure games.
never in my life would i guess that i will hear Gianni Mantragrano's voice in a Scarfulhu vid but im not complaining
He also did a bit of Caleb's voice for my Blood 2 video!
This is giving me the most bizarre sense of nostalgia. I played it a while as a kid and absolutely hated parts of it… but something about the art style and the comedic writing really stuck with me over the years.
Great overview of it all.
Oh my god, you just unlocked so much memories of playing this game as a kid. I played it so much; the music is ingrained into me, and I just loved the humour, even if my version had no voice-acting. ...and came on nine floppy disks. ...with labels written in marker.
I'm... starting to realise that the games my mum got me _may_ have been cracked versions.
_...ahem,_ well, decades-old shadiness aside, thank you for allowing me to finally hear a sample of the voice-acting. Shame, my mum loved Red Dwarf and Chris Barrie in particular; I think she would've liked to have heard more voice clips of him.
I loved this game as a kid, still loving it now. 2 is... a mixed bag. I think Simon's character arc is that of getting worse as time goes on. I would however be curious as to how the sequels beyond 3 go, like 4 and such. Never been able to get them to work, so just knowing what happens would be interesting, let alone what puzzles and jokes it contains...
4 and 5 are oke, but not as good as the first two.
Better than 3 though I hope...
I got stuck on the snowman for 15 years.
I remember playing the first Simon on the Amiga and it had a very special charm, then played it on PC and hearing Chris Barries voice made it even more amazing, it just defines british humour and style and love playing it to this day.
It was about halfway through this video that I realised Simon sounds like David Tennant’s Doctor in helium.
One thing you may not have noticed, you can press F10 to indicate any interactibles in a scene. It helps eliminate the pixel hunting, or at least the wondering whether that mess of pixels is something or not.
If only I knew! Took me a while to find the stone with the fossil...
Guess who is back and with one of my favourite Point and clicks ever! Thank you Sarf!
Underrated channel of a lifetime
Never been the biggest fan of this game as much as I've liked the sprite art, though I may need to give it a second chance after seeing this. Speaking of the sprites, I hope we get some more indie adventure games that take cues from this artstyle.
Ive never seen or played this game but I can definitely see why people wanted a sequel its such a beautiful game
They gave a t-shirt away with the version I got. 30 years and thousands of miles away I still wear it.
I still have my dad's Simon shirt. Came in a collectors edition IIRC. Too big, full of holes, kind of a shame really, but I love it.
Simon the Sorcerer 2 is such a great game, creators f up the potential in it, 3d was pure abomination. I did play 2nd with polish dubbing, at times it was heavily polluted, I have no idea what was going on in record studio, but overall it did fit in the climate of the game. But because of it, british accent was definitely lost.
You mention around 27:00 that structuring the video was difficult and, having seen how this game plays so far, I'm actually convinced you deserve a medal for things managing to be as coherent as they are
I also love mint chocolate chip ice cream! 🍨 Nice to see a new video from you, and my condolences in advance for when you re-play “Simon the Sorcerer” 2 & 3. 😬
Mint chocolate chip!
This is exactly what I needed today, thank you 💙
Watching you play Simon 3d on stream was a wild ride and I can't wait to re experience it again
This was a fun one for sure. Thanks for another fun vid Scarfy 😃
I swear, you always upload about a day after I ask myself, “I wonder if there’s a new Scarfulhu video coming soon.”
Need to start asking yourself more often.
Man it makes me happy that you still post.
There is a fantastic small animation in this game when you find magic circle from the intro and leave the area you can notice a falcon hunting a mouse or other rodent.
So many visually stunning things are hidden in this game.
So you never see the wizard you were supposed to save ?
You speak to him over the phone
I always enjoy your explorations of these games! I love how you're able to talk about them in their historical context given your thorough knowledge of the genre!
I've been a fan of you for years and years and it always pleases me to see a new video from you
9:42 The joke was they confused that word with podophobia. It would have landed better if the proper word was more common.
Ah, I thought that was the mistake rather than the joke.
"Ped-" does mean relating to feet; look at words like pedestrian, pedestal, pedal... So you can see where they get it from. ("Pod-" of course means the same thing, in words like podiatry, etc.) This being an English game, it's "pæd-" that means relating to children (in words like pædiatrics, encylopædia, etc.), so it definitely wouldn't mean that (they'd have written pædophobe for scared of children).
I liked the syncro in the german Version. It was pretty good back in 93. One of the first wich was fully translated in german. Good memories with simon 1 and 2. Still love these two games. Still got the original CD releases.
I still own the t-shirt from the box 😀
"Why it's one of the worst adventure games ever made"
OH boy don't look up AGS... You have no idea how desperate we were like 15-20 years ago
I mean, your old video on 3D was the first I’d ever heard of this series, so yeah, a look at the earlier games is greatly appreciated.
I still have flashbacks to pixel hunting pebbles. There's like four grey-green pebbles hidden on the ground which you need to find, all of which are extremely well hidden and not telegraphed in any way. I completely missed the hint pebble in front of the dwarf cave, because why would I think to look there? Turns out that password can be brute-forced, though... I do feel like the game is pretty solid but could be dramatically improved simply by having all the characters speak 50% faster.
I'm glad you got around to making a Video on Simon 1 and actually liked it. :D
During his adventure, Simon uses a few spells; the invisible one, the shrinking, the flying broom. He was already a sorcerer and didn't need to wind the wand. Nice 🙂
Masterpiece. Absolutely brilliant. Lots of memories! I love it!
Hahaha! 29:27 Real wizard orders (esoteric and magical orders) do actually have membership fees.
I never beat this as a kid when I had it on the amiga 500. There was just sooooo much going on and I hated how slow he walked l. Only ever got to the goblin hideout. Even wTching you play it makes me think it's too much haha.
The box art was kick ass though I remember that!
The theme music for this is just amazing, always helps me fall asleep (in a good way).
This was a huge nostalgic blast from the past for me so thanks very much for the video!
Whenever you showed inside shots of the Drunken Druid I found myself staring intently at the matchbox on top of the slot machine...
Decades later, I still think of THAT matchbox as the most cursed item in the entire game i.e the one item that took me days and days of strenuous searching before I finally spied that tiny collection of pixels on the far left of the screen!
BUT! Apart from that... Yeah, I'm still hugely fond of Simon 1 and 2 many years later... even if Simon gets more sociopathic as the games continue!
Wonderful video 🎉
Very nice review. Been curious about this series for awhile. Can't wait for the next video.
43:06 Techincally speaking, that's somewhat accurately what would happen to any "Biological matter" that falls into lava.
I LOVED this video scarf!!!! It's so interesting learning about these old games
"Well I don't know why he was talking to a tree."
OH THAT WAS PERFECT
12:09 imagine if that stream was like the Bolton Strid (which it kind of looks like), that troll would have a horrible death, making this way more violent of a scene.
I was such a soft kid, I felt so bad for the Swampling 😭
Personally, I'd say the breathmint thing is arguably foreshadowed, given the 'so cold it burns' bit when you put the cross to the druid's head.
I haven't watched your videoes in way to long, but decided to get reacquainted with you, and this was a ton of fun. It seems like I have a lot to catch up with,because this was really fun and charming.
Don't criticize the excessive verbs too much. Space Quest 4 had 2 completely pointless icons made solely for humor: Smell and Taste.
Discworld is another one worth playing, Tony Robinson even voices some characters.
Indeed!
3:07 chris berrie is a huge "git" for this game. Checked the subtitles, you missed that one
Mint Chocolate Chip IS the best ice cream.
32:38 Oh my god he can read minds... Seriously though, this was a lot of fun to watch!
As much as I loved the game when I was a kid, the lack of a plot and a good villain you don't just meet the first time on the last screen really bothers me...
Excellent video, matey me ol' son.
Oh man as soon as you got to the woodworm I immediately shouted out mahoganeeeee! That’s been lurking in my brain for about 30 years.
When this game came out I was 7 years old and it was so amazing. Simon 1 and 2 in my opinion have the greatest pixel art of all time. As I got older my opinion of the series changed and I decided that the first game is by far the best, because while it is humourous, it takes its world and story seriously, and therefore is a fantasy world that you can become immersed in. 2 and 3 descended into lame satire, and are therefore just not as captivating to me as an adult. And they are also quite mean spirited. But I still love them (even 3, somehow).
30 years later and still my favourite game.
A classic Point & Click, but British. Absolutely brilliant banger.
Eh ❤
Hell yeah! It's a proper Scarfulu friday
Wish you could just wedge open all mimics with a stick
I mean, Simon and Scarfulhu share a color scheme, so it makes sense he feels a connection.
As usual, great video, festering with nostalgia 😊
One point and click i remember playing was Goblins 1 and 2
1:43 That theme music 🥰
Ah tis a great day to receive such a gift from you good sir!
Honestly, some of the bizarre solutions feel very much in keeping with the Discworld point and click games.
I love seeing P&Cs I've never heard of that have good art
Orgies? What is the rating for this game?!
Anyone else think Chris Barry would be the _PERFECT_ VA for James the Red Engine?
I read this, pictured OG James' scowl and just thought "Yup, that works."
happy 50k subscribers!!!
now make a video on cash the banooca.
Having played Simon 3D all the way through, I agree that he deserves every terrible thing that happens to him.
@TheLarkaanimation Afraid I wouldn't know - I played the physical version.
9:37
The correct term to use here is "podophobic."
New Scarfulhu video we are so fucking back
No shame in using the UHS. You keep more of your dignity intact than just looking up the answer.
I totally forgot Chris Barrie voiced Simon.
Well I know which team you choose for the next Splatfest now!
Great vid! Loved the first game muchly 🔥
I love your videos :) so cozy and fun please show me more niche stuff
Man, I have missed you!
Part 2 was the most hated Sequel for me. Simon was unbearable for me, but Part 1 had some charme.
The pedophobic wasnt actually that wrong though.
Foot in latin is pes, plural pedes.
Pedometer is a device that counts the number of steps. Fear of feet is technically podophobia but I assume the misspelling is the joke.
It's probably a typo, in English, things involving children is "paed" as opposed to American "ped"
They probably mixed up the ped of "pedestrian" and "pod" of podiatry.
It's ironic in a video about how British the game is that he should get confused by the American mis-spelling of paed (to mean child) and the English use of ped (to mean foot).
I'm gonna tell my kids this is what Warhammer is
if you try to get into the dwarf cave without the password the guard tells you to smeg off
You absolute magical person.
Ah, this was made in my home town, though I didn't know it at the time.