The Curse of Monkey Island™

I played all the Monkey Island games on a PC as a kid. The story of Guybrush Threepwood was just funny and endearing to me but I don't remember the puzzles being so difficult! Maybe they were but my dad was there to help me through them because this time around I had to cheat in a few spots where I could not figure out what to do next! Using walkthroughs is always a bummer but I was able to then cruise through the rest of the game to the end, which did feel a little short coming, but for $10 what do you expect?

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.