The Curse of Monkey Island™

This is by far my favorite point n' click adventure ever. The writing/humor, music, voices, art style—everything just comes together perfectly in this third installment of the series. The inventory puzzles are kinda obtuse at points—as this style of puzzle often is—but it doesn't really matter because everything else is just perfect. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to duel on banjos and insults.

This was the only title in the franchise I had never played. No complaints. Runs fine, no issues. Worth every penny. One left and my collection will be complete. Thanks GoG!

The first game came out when I was 3 years old. I started playing games when I was very young. I played the old Sierra games, and Street Rod 1 and 2 and games you've probably never heard of. I played coloring book games on really old PCs that had windows 3.1 or just simply dos... Adventure games were lots of fun because they had stories, and objectives that weren't like other games where you were attacking or shooting space invaders. Yes, I played Atari 2600 too, and then nintendo, so on... Early adventure games took the graphical limitations of their time and provided gamers with a unique, amazing experience of story telling, characters, humor, puzzle sloving. As time went on shooters incorporated more puzzles, story elements, deeper characters... I watched a lot of Disney cartoons. When I first played CMI, it had taken the franchise up a notch, the graphics were beautiful, Disney-like graphics. It was also voiced over, something not entirely new but it livened the humor of the game. Of course this was the new evoliution of story telling, no more pixelated graphics that strained your eyes, now beautiful illustrations brought to life. Then of course after this when 3D graphics had evolved to a point, it was the new way to tell a story... Where as I appreciate the pixel art of the early days... Curse simply looks and feels fresher, cleaner and more vivid. I still play pixel art games and people still make them... Curse is also a hilarious game with an amazing voice acting cast. I've replayed this game many times. Some would argue that it wasn't Ron's vision but we're not sure that Ron even really had one. The ending of MI-2 could easily just be passed off as a joke that never landed with people. MI3 revived the franchise for a few more titles and perhaps a future. The ending of MI2, if anything was a "joke on the fans", that you wasted your time playing a fantasy-sequence, or did you? I don't see any deep profound "secret" there. Curse adds to the story.

This is one of my first adventuregame I ever played, and I love it even today. Giving This game a 4, because I like The two first MI even more

The Curse of Monkey Island is the third game in the Monkey Island series, and to be honest it's probably the best yet. With a coherent story, great characters, voice-acting and a neat graphical design you're getting a great adventure which even could have worked out as a cartoon series at the time. Guybrush is back again, escaping the weird ending that Ron Gilbert left us at the end of LeChuck's Revenge. The story this time is more of the same in the sense of "Get a boat, find the treasure, save the girl and oh yeah LeChuck is there" but it executes it all pretty well and for the first time the ending is actually not a cliff hanger!!! Definitely a recommendation to play if you enjoy the Monkey Island series and other LucasArts games!