As is traditional, the puzzles make no real sense (“this all seems needlessly complicated,” Threepwood says at one point), but involve just enough bizarro logic that it’s rewarding to figure them out. Critical to the whole reminiscence package is the iconic steel-drum backing music. While the game has abandoned the large pixels of the 90s for eerier puppet-style art, it has kept its hilarious dialogue, bizarro storylines (in which zombies write poems as a hobby), and its relentless breaking of the fourth wall – as when characters comment on items they haven’t seen since Monkey Island 1. Photograph: Devolver Digital via Tinsley PR The story throws us back on to Mêlée Island, but under circumstances that have significantly changed, with younger, much hipper pirates (a clear Gen Z metaphor) on the scene.īack on the hunt … Return to Monkey Island.
All our favourite characters return: Stan, an annoying marketing executive who spews out nonsense jargon Wally, an eternally young-looking cartographer who is fated to always suffer and of course, Threepwood’s true love, Elaine Marley, a former governor turned anti-scurvy activist. Threepwood is on the hunt for the elusive secret of Monkey Island once again, but so is his black-bearded zombie nemesis, Captain LeChuck, who leads a ghostly crew of the undead. And the excellent Dominic Armato, the voice of Guybrush, is also back. But Gilbert and Grossman haven’t written off everything that happened to the series since they left – Murray, a grumpy demonic talking skull from Monkey Island 3, makes a return. Needless to say, purist fans have been bubbling over with excitement.
Series originators Gilbert and Grossman made the first two but then left to work on other projects, and so have only just returned to the franchise.
In Star Wars levels of chronological complexity, this game is technically only the third Monkey Island game, despite the fact that it is the sixth to bear that name.
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