First off, the humor, overall, is PG-rated cheesy. The voice actor for Guybrush has a lame, wimpy, everyman intonation, which actually fits his lines pretty well, but yawn. The peripheral characters swim in a sea of average as well, ranging from mildly amusing to mostly boring. The shining exception to this is Murray, whose lines and voice acting make me smile now just thinking about him. Unfortunately, he doesn't show up until about halfway through the story. The game really earns its two stars with the puzzles. Many puzzles are unintuitive and rely on you to randomly mix items in your inventory in hope of a mixture. Worse, if you play without cheating via walk through, you will feel the desire to go back to every screen and carefully maneuver the mouse over everything in hopes of finding a missed item. Lastly, some puzzles require you to walk through a maze in exactly the right order, and if you mess up, you start from the beginning again. A special bonus: Guybrush walks nice and slow, and his gait is painful to watch. The storyline is the last nail in the coffin. Guybrush has some pox that at first is infecting him, but then is infecting the entire Caribbean. The plot seems reliant on you knowing and being emotionally involved in vague previous events that are poorly explained. If you're looking for an adventure series, I'd avoid this one unless trial and error gets you excited and think Nickelodeon is the pinnacle of humor.
