RPGamer, Simon's Quest Retroview

Cite as: RPGamer, Simon's Quest Retroview
Original: https://rpgamer.com/review/castlevania-ii-simons-quest-retroview/
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Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20251011232644id_/https://rpgamer.com/review/castlevania-ii-simons-quest-retroview/
Accessed: 2026-10-22
Licence: none stated
Credit: Jordan Jackson, RPGamer.
Notes: Retrospective describes Simon's Quest as a rough blueprint for later games and as a template for Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

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Jordan Jackson's 2005 retrospective review for RPGamer praised the music but found most areas palette swaps of others, with the same enemies repeated, and much of what the townsfolk say strange.	`music paragraphvisuals paragraphvisuals paragraphmenus and localization paragraph`	Web
The same review calls Simon's Quest a template for later games such as Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, and says a couple of its tunes recur in later games of the series.	`closing paragraphopening paragraphmusic paragraph`	Web