I've been interested in the adventure game genre for a while now, but for some reason I had never played The Secret of Monkey Island before, despite how important it is for the history of point and click video games. Well, I got to admit that I was missing out.
The Secret of Monkey Island is one of the funniest video games I've ever come across. A lot of the humor relies on breaking the fourth wall, which normally I don't like, but it managed to win me over regardless. The writing also relies on the popular conception of pirates in a way that I found highly endearing.
This "Special Edition" comes with some neat quality of life changes and runs great on modern systems, but I find the cartoony remastered graphics to be vastly inferior to the beautiful pixel art of the original. The fact that one can change the art style on the fly by pressing F10 is a neat technical trick though.
To conclude, I had some minor complaints about the gameplay, but honestly it's not a big deal. The Secret of Monkey Island is extremely accessible for an adventure title that originally released in 1990, it's an excellent game and has my full recommendation.
The Secret of Monkey Island is one of the funniest video games I've ever come across. A lot of the humor relies on breaking the fourth wall, which normally I don't like, but it managed to win me over regardless. The writing also relies on the popular conception of pirates in a way that I found highly endearing.
This "Special Edition" comes with some neat quality of life changes and runs great on modern systems, but I find the cartoony remastered graphics to be vastly inferior to the beautiful pixel art of the original. The fact that one can change the art style on the fly by pressing F10 is a neat technical trick though.
To conclude, I had some minor complaints about the gameplay, but honestly it's not a big deal. The Secret of Monkey Island is extremely accessible for an adventure title that originally released in 1990, it's an excellent game and has my full recommendation.