Van Redd Reviews: The Secret of Monkey Island
veryone ready for a trip through the wayback machine? I recently finished the new version of the classic Lucasarts adventure game The Secret of Monkey Island. It is a old school point and click kind of game from the early 90s. The Monkey Island series is renowned as one of the best, if not THE best, series of this type to ever come along. I was not a computer owner at the time they were popular and now I get to see what I have been missing.
Secret is the first in the series and it sets up our main hero, Guybrush Threepwood. Guybrush wants to be pirate more then anything and you have to guide him though mishap after hilarious mishap. The game is filled with lots of humor that still holds up today. This was one of the first game done by Tim Schafer (Brutal Legend, Psychonauts) and it shows.
What is truely neat about this game is that you can switch between the original graphics, sound, and interface with the updated graphics and ect. ON THE FLY! Its really quite amazing to me. The new graphics are really beautiful and well done. It is quite a bit of fun to check out the old versus the new and I even found myself playing a bit with the old school look just for the nostalgia factor of the time.
Also added is a wonderful hint system to keep you from ever getting stuck or wasting time running back and forth to the internet. It is done in a way that you have to hold down the button so you never accidently hit it and you also have to use it mulitple times to get more indepth hints.
BOTTOM LINE: This game is a classic and is a ton of fun. You will probably only bother to play though it once though but I feel it is worth the price of admission.
Fun fact...Guybrush got his name due to the designers using a placeholder name of "Guy" on his BRUSH file (Program name) that read Guy.Brush.
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