![]() ![]() Newcomers to all things Monkey Island might not have the same immediate connection to these virtual climes, but this is a series that’s always gone strong on a sense of place whatever the art style in play, and Return immediately puts the player where it wants them: in search of the island’s pirate leaders, and in turn off on one more great adventure. There have been some changes since we were last on Mêlée, a few new proprietors taking up residence in town and the requirement to keep a rubber chicken down the back of your breeches long forgotten, but the layout remains much the same and the nostalgic sights and soothing sounds of the place will be a delight for returning visitors. Rather your memory is faulty for thinking otherwise.The setting for this long-awaited comeback - the previous Monkey Island game, the Telltale-developed Tales of Monkey Island, released in 2009 - is naturally Deep in the Caribbean, the gently paced action commencing on the familiar cobbled streets and winding woodland paths of Mêlée Island before opening up to other over-yonder-horizon locations. Guybrush (and you, by inference) are terrible people for playing the game, and nobody likes him or you, and they probably never liked him or you. ![]() I hear the later Acts are even worse, so I just quit at that point. Murray, who was a favorite character of mine, shows up but you can't do anything with him except brutalize him. One of the quests in Act 1 is resolved in a completely unnecessarily sad way, with guybrush basically demolishing a wildlife community and grinning in stupid satisfaction as the animals weep. There's a museum on melee where the proprietor says people who are interested in pirates are bad people, and guybrush is just like 'oh good point'. It's the whole atmosphere and the way everyone reacts to Guybrush. puzzles are extremely simple, but that's not what bothers me. Instead the first act is just guybrush, who's apparently actually an immature, egocentric jerk, wandering around melee island and its run-down, abandoned shops, clicking on things and "thinking back to better times". I was expecting some lighthearted, fun monkey island adventures. ![]()
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