Return To Monkey Island Review - The Final Verdict
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2024
- Given how easy it was for Return to Monkey Island to go disastrously wrong, it would very honestly be tempting to call it nothing short of a miracle that it is as amazing as it is- but honestly, that would be doing a disservice to Ron Gilbert and the team he's assembled, and the incredible work and passion they've put on display here.
They have all come together to deliver what mostly felt truly impossible at this point in time: a true, new, modern Monkey Island game, one that is so convincing at recreating the heights of the series' heyday, it feels like that heyday never ended.
Monkey Island 2 had two puzzle difficulty options, it's not a new idea
As did Curse
Sam Fisher going ham in the comments lol
SAM FISHER
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Monkey island is by far the most original and fun game series ever but
It's so upsetting how hollow this one feels. In curse for instance you had plunder island which was green, lively, upbeat and overall the ambience made you so happy. Then in contrast you get to blood island and everything is dark and mysterious. You are wrapped up in this eerie island and the spooky ambience adds a whole different element to the puzzles there. These environments together draws you in to give you a tangible, immersive and captivating experience and makes you feel more connected with guybrush and his adventure.
The islands in RTMI unfortunately were forgettable and empty. Terror island felt like you were walking through a bunch of props
In the first 3 Le chuck feels way more daunting and meeting elaine after solving puzzles genuinely made you so happy.
The ending left me feeling stranded and empty
They sought to recreate what we felt when we first finished monkey island 2. Is a feeling. The secret of monkey island is to go through story. A story that has been told many times. And the proof that there are no more surprises because we are adults. oh .and opened the envelope that is inside the unlocked things.
@@lukkas1759 yea I think it's the kind of ending that grows on you eventually
@@msv266 I saw some videos and supposedly many different endings too. But the idea is the same.
It was good. 2ez though (nothing as hard as figuring out you had to chop down the rubber tree, or putting a prosthetic stomache over a manhole and using it as a trampoline..) and the sword fighting was a tease.
Decent game though and much better than the telltale saga
the design of the characters is really questionable tho...
Only at first, but you get used to it pretty quickly when the game gets going.
nah, cant get used to guybrush face..I studied ilustration and remember one of the main teachers always said: avoid penis shapes.@@sebastianesilva398
I like the scenery art but the character design is just so disgusting, it's a shame.
All the artwork makes me sad... lol
It really ruins the nostalgia element.
It's flat, too easy and the characters are just not the same as they were. Elaine is like she is brainwashed. Sure, you get used to the new style and yes, there are some nostalgic moments but still. The world is not as big and detailed let alone the puzzles. Most of the time you don't have to even think about what could help. It's pushed in your face. It's good for kids getting to know the world but for a long term fan probably devastating. But to each their own
Agreed , especially the part about elaine
Felt like she was reading out of a script and I couldn't feel their chemistry unlike the other games
On Game Pass 👍. I'm 46 and grew up playing these games, hope this lives up to my hopes 🙏
This seems more like a paid ad than a review.
Played them all and really liked this one. At the very least, there are weaker titles in the aeries
Amazing video
We need a new lesiur suit Larry
The art style of the characters looks so corporate Memphis that Guybrush could be the face of one personality of the Myers-Briggs Personality test.
Also why are the context menus all over the screen, blocking the view? This needs a patch
As someone who played the first 3 Monkey Island's on the Amiga 500, I just want to say that this new Monkey Island looks like garbage. The control system looks like they were flushed out of a toilet too!!!
its ok...but very dull compared to 1, 2, and the my fav 3. islands design is very lazy, almost nowhere to visit and very small, and the ending is just the same one we got in 2, so why this game was even created?
If 3 is your favorite, your opinion is invalid.
Agree 100% the series peaked at 3, saying and acknowledging that that does nothing to disrespect 1 and 2.
@@ghostpiratelechuck2259 3 is the best and most people feel this way.
@@solame4983 Yeah bro, everyone LOVED it when Ron Gilbert left. Lol you’re a silly man.
@@solame4983 I don't think that's true, it depends on the when they were introduced to the series. I love 3 but I think 2 is my favourite.
"RtMI puzzles are clever and challenging"
lol.
Everyone is hating the art style, but it honestly looks fine to me
I didn’t notice it at all when I played through it.
The art style makes me sad... 😞
Who the fuck is Sam Fischer?
Nice content
Keep it up
I'm not a fan of the art work on this one, there's been better one's they've done.
The original game was made great by a collaborative effort with over a dozen contributors. The yt channel onaretrotip has a great video highlighting this in "MARK FERRARI interview (The Making of Monkey Island - Behind The Scenes)" There are other great videos about this on that channel. The short version is the original was made with team work and serendipity, kind of by accident. It was influenced by works like 'On Stranger Tides' and other books.
This latest is just a sorry entry in the parade of flavorless, nostalgia bait centered around a weak narrative by a cynical creator who recruited one other member of the original team. There is no love, heart, kindness or joy in this work. Its just a cynical rant in the form of an awful cash grab. Too bad.
Did you play it?
@@shaolinpunkFTW Probably not
Cynical is right. What a grumpy cnt he’s become.
Art work crap compared to original
it's Stan!!! YAY!!!
"This review was bought, paid and the script written by Terrible Toybox." Is what they would have said in the olden days as the disclaimer.
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Nice game
Hello
Thank you for your service.
@@LettersAndNumbers300 Hi 🤝🏻🙂
Waited for years, was disappointed.
Grow up
@Danson They also stated that they waited for years.
@@TheGlobuleReturns As we all did.
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I so want this game because it looks so fun 😊
I've never looked better
Great
The art style has always adapted itself to be as modern as possible. I guess the entitled are desperately clinging to a child hood that never was.
@Andrew Alleman Do you have a four year old?
Just hoping it will come to PlayStation and Xbox:
Graphics in this game are total crap, pathetic. Why would anyone wanna do that to such a legendary game.
Agreed. Looks like it was made for a 5 year old kid!!
@@moonman1209 I remember I discovered COMI in 1997 , it changed my perspective on adventure games. And here you are 2022 ..... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@moonman1209 check the comment box ( grate, wow, I'm so into it , nice) , who da fukc are those ppl 🤣. Oh, yeah, I forgot 5 y. o.
@@moonman1209 There is only one chance to fix that, make a story with group kid Guybrush
The old original Monkey Island will always live forever. This version will be my nightmare.
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“We’re not where the 1990s was in society and culture, so things have changed in the world, and in how we make games,” says LucasFilm Games’ brand art director Hez Chorba. “With this game I can tell you how seriously DE&I [diversity, equality, and inclusion] principles were taken into consideration. We’re making sure we’re inviting everyone into this storyline. Not that the originals didn’t. But now we’re just making sure to try and see it through everyone’s eyes, and understanding everyone’s different perspectives. I can’t tell you how seriously people on the team took it, because this is a Monkey Island for 2022.”
And just like that, another classic gaming legend had to be butchered by "Progressives".
Even an escapist fantasy adventure computer game about Pirates has to be politically correct.
Sadly, I will have to give this a miss.
I wouldn't want to contribute in any way to Hez Chorba's pay packet.
I will stick with the Special Edition versions of the first two classics.
Just say "I'm racist" instead from now on, saves us all a lot of time
Lol wtf are you even talking about? I played through the whole game, there’s absolutely nothing noticeable or political, except the part where they kind of mock anti-vaxxers.
You're right, not to mention the "modern art" degenerate "art style" of the game.
The Monkey Island series takes place in The Caribbean so for the most part I think that each entry handled "diversity" in a pretty organic fashion (and mind you this was the 90s and early 2000s when they weren't simply ticking some corporate boxes) . I mean it was racially and culturally diverse, gender diverse and characters felt organic and justified. Now with this new entry it really felt more like they were trying to get some sort of delicate, ideal corporate ratio going, so it feels..well..artificial. Calling someone racist because they don't buy into forced diversity and representation based on corporate quotas is a bit shortsighted and only furthers the existence of a hypocritical world in which studios / companies / corporations feign an interest in cultural, racial, gender, sexual diversity just because they planted some generic, cutout characters that meet that criteria on a surface level and serve no other purpose than faking said diversity. I'm a white male and would love nothing more than to see genuine, compelling, diverse characters in media, but at the level creative studios treat this issue now it feels artificial and frankly disrespectful to the vibrant and interesting representation different groups deserve and undoubtedly posess on a social and cultural level. Let's stray from this modern norm of "if you're against a certain corporate practice that pretends to care about a social group then it means you're against that social group" because it's divisive and everyone just comes out estranged and miserable out of the whole affair.
While thankfully this game came out on Playstation and Xbox platforms recently, it's really weird that it only came out on each platforms' "next gen" consoles and not on the PS4 and Xbox One as well, even though it came out on the Switch?! 😯😂🩲😀🤘