Sailing Back To Monkey Island
Monkey Island is one of my all time favourite adventure game brands. Simply because of the memorable characters, corny dialogues (monkey armpit juice?), engaging storyline (it has voodoo, come on!) and humorous music (the leg bones connected to the...).
When Telltale Games said they were going to produce episodic content for Monkey Island, I paid attention. The first chapter of a 6-part series called 'Tales of Monkey Island' is now out, you can pick it up at the official website, or on Steam.
I never did like Monkey Island in 3D. Mainly it's because of the controls and camera angles that are sometimes quite awkward. I don't like to hold my mouse button to move Guybrush around, but I have no choice. There isn't even an option to adjust mouse sensitivity ingame. I do enjoy the graphics of the environment, but the characters are a little below par - atleast in my opinion. Guybrush to me looks like an unshaven Neil Patrick Harris.
In other monkey news: Monkey Island: Special Edition will be on XBLA for 800 MS points, and Steam (PC) $9.99. Coming July 15, 2009 (Wednesday).
YARR!
Update: The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition is now out on Steam, D2D, and XBLA.
