The Curse of Monkey Island™

It's here, folks. It's finally here. The best Monkey Island. Yeah you can downvote me into oblivion for that statement and I don't even care. This game IS my childhood.

Curse is the third entry in the Monkey Island series and quite possibly the best adventure game ever made. While the first two are absolute classics, this game takes everything good about them and makes it better. Astonishing, timeless visual style, wonderful scoring, streamlined gameplay, superb voice acting and hilariously over-the-top writing combine to create the perfect adventure game. A feat that to this day has to be equaled. This game continues the story of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, right after its infamous cliffhanger ending. Protagonist Guybrush Threepwood manages to escape the zombie pirate LeChuck's trap and reunite with his love, Governor Elaine Marley. Unfortunately, due to his classic carelessness, he manages to accidentally turn her into a solid gold statue. Now Guybrush must find a way to undo this curse before it's too late. It's normal for a different development team to take the reins of an existing franchise (Batman: Arkham Origins), but it's rare for them to do as good a job (or almost) as the original creators (Deus Ex: Human Revolution). Even rarer is for them to surpass the originals, which is what happened here, showing that the new team understood exactly what made the original games great, and then built on that. The franchise would sadly not strike equal gold with its sequel, Escape from Monkey Island, which had yet a different development team that at times seems didn't even play the original games. Fortunately, Curse still delivers. While it's a linear story with no branching paths, the beautiful art style, lovable characters, outstanding humor and hilarious performances will make you want to play it over and over. Now stop wasting your time reading this and go play it.

I really, really, reeeeeaaaaally want to give this 5 stars, but I just can't. Curse of Monkey Island was the only piece of media where the Spanish translation was ACCURATE; it isn't just the quality of the translated script, but also the voice cast and the production value. There just isn't another piece of entertainment that was such carefully and beautifully translated, and they make this release English only! I’m really disappointed in GoG and Disney, two companies that understand and take great care in localization, for denying the opportunity of play it in their native language to all the Spanish-speaking adventure game lovers out there that didn’t have the chance back when it was commercially available. I can’t speak for all the other languages it was originally released in and won’t review the game, because you can tell that if my only complaint is the lack of localization, then the game must be perfect.

It's one of the best games I've ever played. Recommended!

Amazing, as is the whole trilogy.