That Also Implying He Was Initially Gonna Give Up And Die Without Actually Doing Anything About This - Tumblr Posts
1 year ago

I cannot explain how often I think about this part of the Simon’s Quest story. Ough I wanna try to explain every tiny line of this in detail, but I can’t think of words rn aaa, so I’m gonna dump random disjointed thoughts in the tags for now.
https://href.li/?http://www.vgmuseum.com/mrp/cv1/documents/CV1J.txt
https://href.li/?http://www.vgmuseum.com/mrp/cv2/documents/CV2J.txt
I’m putting the links to the English translations of the first two games’ Japanese manuals because their stories are so much cooler than what the western releases got. The second I get everything I can or have thought about this guy together I’m doing in depth story and character analysis for some silly whip man NES games tho—
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I can’t words rn
and I’m so frustrated about it
like I had multiple points I was gonna make but I just can’t put them down at all for no reason
I should rant about how they mention decay in this one tho—
decay is not fun and would be very horrifying to experience while alive fun fact!
Simon is not doing so great—
the American manual describes is as more of a soul effecting curse but like
slowly rotting alive is so much more horrifying
i imagine that was probably not mentioned in the American release for the same reason why they censored blood in some games tho lol
also the ominous last line in this screenshot
that’s given a little bit more sad implications when the mysterious woman tells him something about courage afterwards
the ‘please remember bitter memories in Transylvania’ at the end of the whole thing
implying that 7 year gap may have been him just avoiding fixing the curse because of the trauma of what happened there
that also implying he was initially gonna give up and die without actually doing anything about this
it’s so interesting that the few insights into Simon as a character that we get are like
he highly doubts that he’ll be as good as his ancestors
and then he gets cursed and his first response is to give up and slowly let it kill him
like WOW those are some important character details for sure
it’s so hard to talk about him without immediately being like ‘oh no poor guy’
theory posting
kinda not like whole theory but a small piece of speculation material lol