This is an amazing game. Buy Now! Go in Blind! Play ASAP
Visually Stunning. Emotionally gripping. Bold and Beautiful. Heartbreaking and thoughtful. I think if you're the type of person to be drawn in by the art style, and enjoy point and clicks and puzzles, you'll enjoy where this game takes you.
This game does just about everything right. Amazing presentation. Meaningful artstyle. Sweet music. Superb puzzles. Great story all the way through. The ending is beautiful and made me cry. This is a must play for all LucasArts fans. Sometimes the way the tweening animation works looks a little weird and pulled me out of the experience. But overall, it looks great, and anyone should be able to embrace it as they play. The voice acting is also amazing and really adds to the game. There's some voice direction that's hokey and kinda ruins the joke, but maybe that is the joke? It's also a writing issue I suppose with some lines not working well when voice acted, but maybe that is also the joke, but it's nowhere near as bad as some lines in MI1+2 SE that were ruined by voice acting. Speaking of writing. It's so good. I played with the writer's cut on, and the lines that I think where the writer's cut were so funny. Choose whatever mode you want tho. The humor is in the top two of the series for me, it's very much in-line with the rest of the series, and it all works great with the story. You may also notice how much writing and voice acting is. So many different lines for so many different things. So many optional things to do too. This really does feel like the most feature complete Monkey Island ever. The game offers a context sensitive in-game hint book. I am not sure how I feel about it. Maybe it is better that looking up an online guide. Certainly better than buying a guidebook. I used it 3 times on hardmode and I looked up a guide for one more problem. Each time I felt it was the game's fault. This is very much the exception. The puzzles are not straightfoward, but easily do-able. The game provides what you need to figure it out, but doesn't hold your hand at all. Think more DOTT than MI2 in puzzle direction. With that ending, I am fine with this being the last Monkey Island game ever. Perfect way to end the franchise. Thank you to all who brought this together
I had been following the development of this game for a long time and was very excited about it. It blew my expectations out of the water. Gameplay was solid, super solid. Animations and character designs were amazing. The puzzles the game throws at you are great. The "aha" moments during levels and bossfights were frequent. The levels require you to go back a forth between it a lot, so if you don't like that, oh well. There were these roller enemies at the end of the game that were awful to take out because of the cramped space you were in, died there more that anywhere else in the game. The story is both good and "meh". I personally like long string of dialogue and cutscenes between gameplay, and the scenes add to the gameplay because it gives you and hint for how to take down an enemy. The game would not be able to exist without these cutscenes. Even then the game points a pretty clear path on what to do next, making sure you're never lost. The story is always gripping you by the nose, making you wonder what will happen next. I'm still thinking about the message of the game, which I guess is a good thing, but it did seem pretty muddled. Can't say Konjak is a literary genius, but he did write a decent story about how religion affects people in an intriguing way. World building was good. Final boss was amazing, and really put everything you had done into perspective and totally gave new light into the "meaning" of the game, which I love.
