Return to Monkey Island

Ignore most of the reviews. The story is fun and has the ending it's building to and needed.

Isn't that what a PnC game is supposed to be? I own this game on another platform and I just feel the need to defend it here because of all the review bombing by cry babies who don't like the art style. Imagine being so petty that just because the visuals doesn't fit perfectly with your preference you go on every platform you can find give the game a bad review. Look up the word "petty" in the dictionary and you'll find the millions of faces of the review bombers of this game. Return to Monkey Island is the continuation of the adventures of Guybrush Threepwood visiting fictional Carribbean islands and meeting new and familiar faces and solving puzzles. The puzzles go from easy to hard in a very natural way compared to many other PnC games who are just ridiculously hard even from the beginning. The voice acting is great and we hear a lot of old voice talents making their return to their characters. I love the story. It's wholesome and humorous and will make you smile like a kid playing LeChuck's Revenge for the first time. I highly recommend this game. Don't be a petty review bomber. Try the game before giving it a review.

Good puzzles, I never really got stuck. A couple times I used the hints, but if I had just not been braindead in that moment then the solutions weren't preposterous. Also, I liked the art. It's a little gritty, and very different than its prequels, but the wonky angles and style on the scenes really reminds me of Day of the Tentacle. The characters not so much, but it I found all the scenes interesting. My favorite point and click of this style in years.

This game wasn't going to please everyone. But it did please me. Sure, it was way easier than Thimbleweed Park. Sure, it has a 'meta' ending. Sure, it doesn't have pixel art. I won't critique it as a game (though it's an above average game). I'll critique it as a story. Because it's a unique story I am happy I got to experience. I don't care. It made me cry a little. Over the meta ending. Over how the relationship of Elaine and Guybrush is portrayed, after years of back and forth over what that relationship is (I feel acknowledging and answering that back-and-forth at the same time, in a deeply human and touching way.) Ron said in an interview that Tales was an adults' game. This is a game about adulthood. (No, not in the way some people interpreted it. In a way that has an amazing amount of heart, feeling and understanding behind it.) Thank you, Ron, for finally letting me hear your story.

I've played all the games in the series and I can say that it is a great experience in its latest entry of the series. The puzzles are fairly logical for the adventure genre, albeit some taking a few trials or minutes to think about. The music is great as expected and you will get used to the graphics style. The trivia feature is a nice addition, and for newcomers the game offers a good overview of all the previous titles. You can tell that specifically The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge received the most details and love regarding the summarized story and that Tales of Monkey Island had the least interesting story to provide (as it's been the lowest quality entry of the whole series). Ron Gilbert found a good connection between MI2:LR and RtMI, which was something I specifically looked forward to. So far, so positive. While it's a solid experience with some great scenes here and there, once I reached the end I felt some disappointment. That is, until I realized that the ending had something special to it. If you know the origins of the game, you may see it as well. It still felt too anticlimactic, which is why I take one star away from the score. I'm uncertain if the development was rushed at the end like Escape from Monkey Island, or if all the other ideas didn't work. What I feel very confident about, is that this is the last entry in the series. It won't get better. I still hope for new IPs / stories under Lucasfilm Games, that unleash a portion of the magic, that the original games had.