The Curse of Monkey Island™

The writing in this game is excellent: like one of those sophisticated but also goofy cartoons from an earlier time. This is the kind of comedy where a character will one moment get clonked on the head for a pratfall...and later have an involved discussion with a voodoo priestess about an affordable mortgage. Kids and adults I can see loving this game, although kids will find some of these puzzles very obscure and difficult. But there's no hardcore violence, sensuality, swearing...just good clean high brow/low brow fun. FAIR WARNING: this is a sequel! There's quite a few references to previous Monkey Island games here, although nothing you outright HAVE to know to play thankfully. The first character you meet your character will recognize even if you, as a first time player, do not. Two levels of difficulty are presented at the start and the second level puts extra layers on already fairly involved puzzles. In the lower difficulty some objects are just lying around to be picked up and used, but on the higher difficulty there are other puzzles you have to do to get those items in the first place. Graphics are very pretty: done in a painterly animated movie style. The cutscenes are smooth and energetic and both they and the in game graphics also involve some CGI elements woven seamlessly into the aesthetic. Exploring is half the game so it's a good thing it's half the fun. Memorable music, memorable characters. It was a blast to play in the past and just as good to come back to.

One of my alltime favoirites of my childhood. Very funny and cool adventure. The comic graphic is still cool. It also runs ewthout and problems inside ScummVM on any linux. Spend me again several hours of fun.

This is not just one of the finest installments from Lucas Arts golden age of point n' clicks. It is, to me, THE BEST point n' click game ever made, one of the best looking games ever, even more than 20 years old, with amazing soundtrack and voice talent and just great comedy situations. It's a truly timeless masterpiece.

Probably my favorite of the monkey island games, and one of the best adventure games of all time. Still gorgeous, and an amazing must play adventure game. Also the best insult sword fights.

I am so excited for this to be avaiable on GOG! I still have my original disk for this game but, getting this game to work got harder and harder the older it got and it really bummed me out and now, we have a version that is just as simple as downloading and hitting play. This is a special game to me because, I played this game all the way through with my Dad, so it finally being available on GOG is fantastic, an instant purchase for me. I enjoyed the other Monkey Islands enough but, this is MY Monkey Island game, the incredible voice acting, music, and hand drawn animations always stuck with me. The fact that this game is a comedy with great writing and jokes just makes it something I loved playing over and over as a kid, and I'm excited to do so now, once again. As far as a 90s adventure game, this game had fair puzzles that were still fun to solve. They also give you lots of niceties like shortcuts around an area, double click skipping into other areas, you don't have to repeatedly die and reload, its really incredible, I just feel like the people who made this game only cared about making sure you were having fun, because, they totally did while making the game. I don't think I've bought a game nearly as fast as I have The Curse of Monkey Island, I highly recommend it to everyone, I can't think of any good reasons to dislike this game other than personal taste. Thank you people at GOG for making it available, thank you everyone at LucasArts who made this game, I really miss you and thanks to everyone who cares about making sure these amazing video games are here for new generations to enjoy. Cheers.