Return to Monkey Island

I'm not a big fan of the art style, but I don't mind it either. The game is not perfect (I disliked some puzzles and there could be more possible interactions with objects), but in terms of length it is okay for me. I don't think the ending is bad (actually I kinda like it) and most puzzles are okay or even good. My personal favourite Monkey Island remains part 3.

A great sequel. I played this for around 25 hours and unlocked all achievements. I really enjoyed replaying it and felt it a great addition to the Monkey Island series. The art style. Hmmm. I would have prefered all 2d. But Ron already went there with Thimbleweed Park so... But it's not a bad style. No worse than Escape... There are some wonderful throwback gags to the previous series. I was suprised to see Murray included as he wasn't in the first two games, but was a great addition to the others. It's a shame that Earl Boen didn't voice Le Chuck, but I understand his ill health stopped his participation. Third in my ranking of the games. 1.MI2 2.MI 3.Return to Monkey Island I really hope they make another one!

I'm old now, and I keep fond memories of the lucasarts adventure games I so much enjoyed in my youth. Dialogues are great, modern UX is fine too, graphics I don't really care much about, story is pretty much in the same vein as the originals. Puzzles could be more challenging but they are just fine. This one might not invoke the same unforgettable feeling I got with MI1 and 2 but I found it quite satisfying. I really wanted to return to monkey island and this game took me back there. No complaints

The journey is this game's true prize I wasn't thrilled by the idea that Gilbert made it sound as if he wanted to ignore the last three games for the story of this one. Good news: he didn't, he acknowledged their existence, there are some references to the later games as well ... and of course there's Murray. The story starts innocent, Guybrush is on a race with Lechuck, on his quest causing collateral damage like never before ... but in the end I felt something was missing. Remember that passage The Dark Tower where Stephen King tells you to stop reading before Roland reaches the tower? (Of course you don't, who reads books these days?) That might have been a good warning in RoMI as well. The whole time it's hinted that Guybrush and Lechuck are not so different after all, so one would think that they had a big scene together in the end, but that part was completely left open. In the end I was not like "Oh, he got me good! Haha!" ... it was more like "Oh no, not again ..." The riddles are mostly rather easy, I only had difficulties with a few of them. The controls are ok, except for somem minor issues with the inventory (and why the heck does the game menu open with 'o' instead of 'Esc'?). The voice acting is as good as we know it from the other games, the music is great. Like in Woodtick in MI2 the same track plays with different instrument when you wander around a scene. The variations of the old themes are nice as well. The graphics ... well, they are what they are. As probably everyone else I miss the pseudo realistic look from the first games, that tehy felt like right out of a pirate movie poster. So I was not all too keen of the new look, when I first saw it. When playing the game however, it's a different thing, they actually fit quite well, most of the time. It's the era of Switch games, we have to live with that. I thought about giving only 4 stars, but then I stuck with 5. After all I had a good time and most of the time the game had the right feeling.

RtMI is, for the most part, a pretty solid adventure game. It's quite nostalgic, but at the same time it feels properly modern in execution. The UI is streamlined (a little too much, perhaps), the puzzles are (mostly) logical, if not always very clear, and the much talked-about artstyle is a touch odd, but I got used to it very quickly. The story's fine, if not terribly original, and many of the characters are likeable and memorable, but the best part is how the game explained the ending of MI2 in logical and believable way (although Curse also did it pretty well). But then there's the ending, and that's where the game falls flat on its face. In MI2 it was quite original and surprising, in Thimbleweed park it was annoying and here it's just plain insulting. So yeah, I don't know if I can recommend RoMI with clear conscience.