The third of the series wasn't so highly praised, I will go into more detail when I 'LP' the game as there's a lot to talk about with it. What makes the series even more unique is that the characters are (mostly) voiced by British actors, the humour is very distinctly British and the games don't even try to take themselves seriously.
The original two games where praised highly by game critics upon release. They really are great adventure games, for a time when the genre had been dominated by a lot of big US names, this little known British company delivered something that was easily on par with some of the more well known adventure games. So what's so great about the original trilogy? They're decent adventure games in their own rights but the only similarities that can be made is the name of the series and several of the character names. I'm not knocking Germany or the USA, but for a very distinctly British series it became very distinctly un-British. Not only did a German company take over, the English version was voiced by American actors. The first was five years after the release of Simon The Sorcerer 3D, the second instalment was released two years afterwards. The first three games were developed by Adventuresoft, two more releases followed by a German company called Silver Style Entertainment who bought the rights to the series. Three games? Wasn't there more released several years ago? Simon is a teenager who is magically teleported to a fantasy land and has to do the usual point-and-click affair of puzzles and quests. Even though the games are set in a fantasy world, they're more set to be a parody of popular fantasies rather than trying to shoe horn the series into the genre. Simon the Sorcerer is a series of point-and-click adventure games created by Adventuresoft, well, the first three were anyway, well, the third wasn't point-and-click but we'll get onto that later.
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