{"id":1033,"date":"2025-10-28T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2025-10-29T11:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:31:31","slug":"mini-review-simon-the-sorcerer-origins-switch-a-faithful-return-to-a-classic-adventure-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/mini-review-simon-the-sorcerer-origins-switch-a-faithful-return-to-a-classic-adventure-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini Review: Simon The Sorcerer Origins (Switch) &#8211; A Faithful Return To A Classic Adventure Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Simon says spells.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re an adventure game fan of a certain age, you\u2019ll have a place in your heart for <strong>Simon the Sorcerer<\/strong>. Part of the first major wave of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/best-point-and-click-adventure-games-for-nintendo-switch\">point-and-click adventures<\/a> back in the late &#8217;80s and early &#8217;90s, Simon offered a goofy British counterpart to <strong>Monkey Island<\/strong>\u2019s swashbuckling comedy.<\/p>\n<p>The series now returns with a faithfully written prequel that will delight long-time fans. Telling the tale of the titular conjurer&#8217;s beginnings as a magical chosen one, we follow Simon as he gets lost in a fantastical world, learns to wield magic, and meets his long-term antagonist, Sordid.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/simon-the-sorcerer-origins\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon says spells. If you&#8217;re an adventure game fan of a certain age, you\u2019ll have a place in your heart for Simon the Sorcerer. Part of the first major wave of point-and-click adventures back in the late &#8217;80s and early &#8217;90s, Simon offered a goofy British counterpart to Monkey Island\u2019s swashbuckling comedy. The series now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}