The Secret of Monkey Island™: Special Edition

This was my first time playing this gem. I loved the simple and fun story and some great point and click nostalgia i had with this one. Game is 5*. Okay now lets talk about Special edition of this game. I had i good time with it but it is not perfect. This game is in big need of dialog skip, next i would like to skip scenes by double clicking the next location. Due to graphical style its also easy to miss the areas and it will make you confused where to walk sometimes. Voice acting and music is in my opinion great - i cringe a bit on love scere but otherwise great. Game have now easy mode that is great for these old school point and clicks you can press H and get little help but if you are cave man smart you can press h multiple to get arrow pointing to next objective. One main probles is with obvious graphical glitches. You can see it was not tested well on different resolution scales and sometimes you get distorted bacground or not matching texture. So if you looking for playing this for the first time great go and get it. If you want nostalgia you can always switch to original game so its good deal.

Nous avons droit à un remake graphique de grande qualité. Le fait de pouvoir passer de la version "normale" à la "nouvelle" est une option vraiment sympathique car cela nous permet de constater le travail réalisé pour que cette version reste fidèle à l'originale. Cependant, j'émets de gros doutes sur la tête du protagoniste, il a vraiment une dégaine qui peut faire peur dans le moteur du jeu, dans les "cinématiques", c'est plus correct. Les musiques réinterprétées font honneur à celles du jeu de base. Les voix en anglaises sont pas mal mais j'aurai préféré une version française intégrale... Le scénario n'étant aucunement changé, ceux qui ont terminé celui de 1990 n'auront aucune surprise. Pour les autres, c'est une histoire intéressante dotée d'un humour qui arrive à faire mouche. Le système d'indices mis en place est une excellente idée. Il permet de ne pas rester bloqué si on a oublié un objet ou si on ne sait pas où aller. N'étant pas invasif, vous pouvez ne jamais avoir d'aide si vous décidez de ne pas appuyer sur la touche dédiée. La traduction est hélas en deçà du reste : elle est pas terrible et certaines répliques traduites ne veulent rien dire par rapport au dialogue d'origine. Imperfection particulièrement visible dans les "joutes verbales". J'irai jusqu’au à dire qu'elle ruine votre expérience. En terme de défaut, je soulignerai aussi le fait qu'on peut avoir du mal à voir les endroits accessibles sur la carte globale. Cette remarque est valable au moment où nous sommes sur l'Île aux Singes où certains lieux se confondent dans le décor. Dans un autre sujet, le système de "pousser", "tirer", etc... est bien mais il n'est pas très intuitif de nos jours. Ce n'est pas vraiment un "problème" dans cette aventure puisqu’il fait parti intégrante de l'interaction, les nouveaux joueurs pourraient être un peu perdus. Cette édition spéciale ravira les fans et permet à tous de découvrir ce monument du jeu vidéo... Une VF plus soignée aurait été appréciée !

Monkey Island 2 is even better, but I really love this one as well.

I guess Point-and-click adventures just don't fit me. I played this for about 14 hours and at least 10 hours of them I had no clue what to do next or I was travelling to other areas (by boat) to test some of my ideas on how to progress further in the story. The story itself could have been told in less than an hour. The game contained some funny jokes/statements but overall it's just too much for me. Some of the sceneces and dialogs that are supposed to be funny are actually shallow & annoying. The possibility to use every verb on every object is really distracting. In some situations I just ended up trying all possibilities no matter how weird they are (because some combinations are actually really weird and also illogical). I never played the original game and I was born in 1995. Maybe if I had been born earlier and had played the original game back then I might have liked it.

The Secret of Monkey Island is one of those classic point and click adventure games that were hugely successful on PCs in the 90s, and that belong to a genre that was kind of forgotten as technology advanced and changed the games that always entertained us. So, when adventures returned to activity with the success of Telltale's games, it naturally reignited the flame and curiosity I had to seek more experiences with this genre, and then I saw in The Secret of Monkey Island, considered one of the great pearls of the adventrures, the opportunity to enter the universe of LucasArts games and I can say with certainty that I understand all the cult appeal that this title has. I loved everything here, from the puzzles that make you think outside the box to the sarcastic humor with occasional fourth wall breaks that were brilliantly fitted by its writers. It is worth remembering that this is the special edition, a remake that contains updated graphics and menus, which even remove the famous and nostalgic box of verbs, and I particularly liked that, giving more space to the scenarios and redone art that in my opinion made the game very beautiful, remembering that you can switch to the classic graphics just by pressing F10 at any time. I highly recommend!!!