The Secret of Monkey Island™: Special Edition

In my opinion, Monkey Island 1 and 2 are the best adventure games ever! I've played them so many times and never get bored. Both (Amiga and PC) versions are great. My favourite quote from Monkey Island 2: "How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" :D

This is a must have for all who appreciate classic titles. If you are looking for a game in which the story drives the game this is it. You play as a comical want-a-bee pirate as he tries to get the respect of other pirates and establish himself. The controls are easy to understand, but the puzzles it gives you will have you dying to find a walk-thru. Don't give into the temptation. All of the puzzles are solvable with a little perseverance and you will feel so much better when you take the extra 15 minutes to do it yourself. When playing this just remember the golden rule of adventure games: Try to use everything ON everything! Even when it doesn't make sense it will eventually work (often as part of a comical gag). It is also great to give to the under 10 crowd to teach them problem solving skills. Something that modern games rarely do as guides are plentiful or they only require twitch skills.

A very witty and creative game, full of entertaining banter and character interactions, as well as some pretty ridiculous sequences (it's pretty obvious it must have been a lot of fun designing this game). If you're looking for a silly, pirate-themed, adventure game, this should be right up your alley. Part of the key to success in this game is an open mind and a curious spirit — no idea should be considered too crazy or foolish for a game where you play a character named Guybrush Threepwood. You don't need to be a brainiac to solve the puzzles; they really aren't that cryptic, but you do have to pay attention. Like others, I kind of favor the original artwork over the cartoon-y remake, and as I play games on my computer rather than on a gaming console, it does feel a bit clunky having to open the verb menu and inventory instead keeping them at the bottom of the screen, but I think it's probably tricky trying to find alternatives ways of supporting so many verbs without taking away the user's ability to solve the problems on their own due to being fed the solutions by a cursor which automatically reflects the necessary action that should be used, and I think the solution used here was due in part from trying to keep multiple platforms in mind.

This Point-and-Click Adventure is certainly a product of its time, and that's both for good and for bad. First thing I did when I figured out that I could was press F10 to switch to the original version of the game, and I recommend this; the new version has a terrible interface, and the graphics... well, I didn't think that there was a digital uncanny valley, but this is it; it's kind of like a cheap Flash game from 2001 or so, but also creepy? I'm glad you aren't stuck with that, in any case. Playing the classic version, I had a good time; it's like many games from its time, but a bit more intuitive and with a friendlier user interface, especially compared to the old text parsers. The visuals are absolutely stunning; the most important thing to me in a game like this is its world, and it absolutely delivers from start to finish. The puzzles are mostly pretty reasonable, but the used boat salesman was a frustrating mess that worked only when it was good and ready. Learning to "master the sword" was a bit grindy, too, but at least the actual combat wasn't a clunky mess; it was actually pretty clever. Overall, a pretty short adventure, but a very memorable one.

This was my first time playing this gem. I loved the simple and fun story and some great point and click nostalgia i had with this one. Game is 5*. Okay now lets talk about Special edition of this game. I had i good time with it but it is not perfect. This game is in big need of dialog skip, next i would like to skip scenes by double clicking the next location. Due to graphical style its also easy to miss the areas and it will make you confused where to walk sometimes. Voice acting and music is in my opinion great - i cringe a bit on love scere but otherwise great. Game have now easy mode that is great for these old school point and clicks you can press H and get little help but if you are cave man smart you can press h multiple to get arrow pointing to next objective. One main probles is with obvious graphical glitches. You can see it was not tested well on different resolution scales and sometimes you get distorted bacground or not matching texture. So if you looking for playing this for the first time great go and get it. If you want nostalgia you can always switch to original game so its good deal.