Scooting around Melee Island to do the quests is plenty fun, with the random twists and turns of any typical adventure game thrown in the mix - although nothing too convoluted to stop a player progressing.
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After chatting to the three commodores, Guybrush gets sent on three quests of pirate-esque calibre - dig up some loot, steal some loot and learn how to sword fight - or, well, insult sword fight. Guybrush, which I also imagine is a name for a masculinised loo-cleaning tool, drops into the local pirate bar and sets about talking to the local drunkards/pirate overlords. His name is Guybrush Threepwood and at the start of the game all we know about him is that he has come to Melee Island, deep in the Carribbean, because he wants to be a pirate.
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The plot of the game is based around a lanky lad with pale skin and long blonde hair who looks like he could be a sterotypical viking if only he wasn't so scrawny. It's like they do on CSI - magically increasing the resolution and adding pixel fidelity on an image - zoom and enhance! A sort of "look how far we've come" combined with "look how faithful we've been to the original". You can switch between the two graphical styles at any pointĭiving in for the first time is great - it starts off showing the old school loading image, then gently overlays and replaces it with the new graphics. You simply could not get a more faithful rendition. Monkey Island: Special Edition offers an optional graphical overhaul and interface (plus a few other bits, like spoken dialogue), but the actual content is the same as before - to the point where it clearly references the original even as you load the game. Fortunately, you don't have to grab a Wiimote and dance around like an idiot, or spend obscene amounts of cash on a new graphics card for this. Remakes are often regarded as being the spawn of Satan of course, as they bastardise the original to conform to new trends in gameplay. This is where the remake, The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, comes in and it falls to me to see if Monkey Island is still a good game by today's standards. It's just that I could never be bothered with all that reading and Monkey Island pre-dated most of the 'talkie' adventure games by a few years.
It's not that I dislike the genre though - I actually loved the Broken Sword games, for example. Instead, I preferred mutilating things in Doom and, heaven forbid, playing outside. I never played the game growing up, nor any of the other LucasArts adventure games. I don't mean that in the sense that my facial hair isn't fluffy like a kitten, but more that I'm not a big Monkey Island fan-boy. The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition Platform: PC, Xbox Live Arcadeįor the record, I'm not like Joe.
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