Posted on: September 3, 2018
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A Small Town Named Nostalgia
Monkey Island was the first game I ever played, and it even helped my little brother learn how to read. I played every Lucas Arts Adventure game that was made thereafter and I still think Monkey Island 2 is the pinnacle of adventure gaming. I wanted to love this game, but it was just ok. The graphics and the music are top notch (though the locales are slightly uninteresting). The updated character movement and scrolling struck the right balance between keeping the nostalgia but keeping pace with our 21st century internal clock. Also, if you've seen twin peaks, it does a decent job of capturing that feel. The bad? The tone of the game is all over the place, neither funny enough nor containing enough depth. The characters are mostly one-note, unlikable, or uninteresting. And as has been noted in other reviews, the breaking of the fourth wall is distracting, and lazily tries to patch up holes in the plot that would have been better served actually being written well. But the absolute strangest part of the game is controlling 5 different characters who are working together but don't know that they're working together because you're just controlling them. Adventure games have always had a unique conceit. You ARE Roger Wilco, Guybrush, Manny, or Graham. But you're also not those characters, perhaps you're just a part of their brain so when you try and combine two things they can tell you (or that part of themselves) "That doesn't seem to work." But with multiple characters moving and handing each other things for no good reason in their world, this feels especially strange. Maybe this won't bother you, but it was distracting to me. If it's on sale, worth a purchase if you're feeling nostalgic, but not a new classic by any stretch.
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