Return to Monkey Island

released on Sep 19, 2022

Return to Monkey Island, the long-awaited follow-up to the legendary Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge by Ron Gilbert's Terrible Toybox in collaboration with Devolver Digital and Lucasfilm Games, coming 2022.


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Tenia una buena historia pero luego cuando llego al final dije "¿Y esto?", me decepciono el final la verdad.

It’s wonderful to be back, welcome aboard.

I do not hold Monkey Island up as one of the greatest adventure games but it is certainly close, sadly this is perhaps one of its weakest iterations. Despite that it’s a good adventure with all of the wry wit and whimsy you know and love from this series.

All of your favourite characters return and offer layered and humorous interest throughout the well paced plot. You will enjoy this whether you have played previous games in the series or not, but it certainly helps if you have. I imagine in particular some of the puzzles might be oddly impenetrable if you are not accustomed to Herbert’s way of thinking. I admit I did have to delve into the hints section a few times.

The art style is beautiful and unique, it moves with such fluid colour. I never tired of looking at it. The voice cast are just as good as in past games and the music is suitably joyous.

Alas, a narrative game has to cohere to excel and I cannot get on board with the tone or purpose of the ending. I won’t discuss the detail here but meta narratives always strike me as cheap storytelling. I understand what they are trying to get across to the player but it left me cold, which is a disappointing end to a series I have great fondness for.

Love to see monkey island again. I think the new art style is great and it was a fun little jaunt in the monkey island universe. It is not super long and there isn't much that makes you want to do additional playthroughs, but still a good time.

A worthy sequel to the classic point and click series. Not everyone likes the art style but I found it very coherent and in keeping with the rather humorous tone of the game. The puzzles were fanastic (except for the very last one with the door, which was a bit too out-of-the-box for me^^). The story was also really good with the familiar voice actors from the previous games. What I particularly liked was that although the game relied a lot on nostalgia, it also introduces completely new characters and stories and breaks new ground, which I wouldn't have expected. It was also nice that characters and content from games 3-5 were not ignored but actively incorporated into the world (Murray, for example). Yes, all in all one of the best Monkey Island games and a great adventure game in general.

Hilarious game - even if some of the puzzles lean a little too much into "adventure game logic."