The Curse of Monkey Island™

This is a very humorous point and click with really beautiful graphics that look like they have been drawn by hand. A few of the puzzles are a bit obscure but that's probably unavoidable. Try to resist the temptation to look up the solutions as you'll be sorry when it's over. For the bargain price it's a no brainer purchase for me.

This is a superb adventure game. Very funny, good dialogues, the graphics are are still good, excellent music. Bit too short though and some puzzles are challenging.

The Curse of Monkey Island hasn't had the remaster treatment of its two predecessors in the series, but it doesn't really need it, as it stands up very well today. The characters and writing are amazing and the ever-present humour makes playing through this classic a very enjoyable experience.

A lot of people seem to feel this game doesn't hold up to the first two, but I just don't see it- it's all great. The puzzles, the animations, the voice acting, the humor, the mood. Hearing the characters voiced for the first time was amazing when it first came out, but just having played the Special Editions of the first two games which added voice acting, I can say it's not mere nostalgia that makes me love MI3. I think it may be the funniest of the first three games, it has tons of memorable moments, the puzzles are tricky but not unfair, the characters are absolutely glowing with personality, and the ship combat mechanic is a fun new addition to the typical adventure game formula, while also revisiting the insult swordfighting from the first game (which is a fun enough idea that I don't mind doing it again). I suppose one could make the argument that it doesn't include enough of Elaine and LeChuck, the former being turned to gold for most of the game and the latter just shouting in a few cutscenes, and extending the end areas of the game would have helped with that- and maybe by the third part of the series it's becoming a little too in-jokey and self-referential- but I actually enjoyed the attention to continuity and liked the new characters enough that I didn't feel it was lacking in any way. The graphics are a little blocky and pixelated-looking now, and could benefit from a remaster similar to Full Throttle's, but still hold up for the most part. Highly recommended, and in my opinion a high point of the series, which would plummet into being outright bad in the next game (which I won't even be reviewing because I refuse to re-buy it), and rise back to mediocrity in the Telltale series, but never again reach the heights of the original trilogy... well, maybe. I haven't played Return to Monkey Island yet and I have high hopes. In the meantime Curse is absolutely worth getting- even if you don't end up liking it as much as the first two, it's a good time.

This is easily the best of all Monkey Island games, past and present. The game introduces us, for the first time, Dominic Armato as the (perfect) voice of Guybrush Threepwood. The visual style of the game is stunning, the puzzles are funny, voice acting of all characters is great, and last, but not least, Murray The Demonic Skull makes his debut!