I remember the uproar over it being 3D, but after enjoying Grim Fandango so throroughly, I trusted Lucasarts to make another stellar game regardless of how many dimensions it was in. I remember first hearing that there was going to be another Monkey Island game on the still-fledgling internet not long after Grim Fandango came out. The only thing that spoils it is that it says Monkey Island on the cover instead of Sam & Max. In the end, Escape really is quite a good adventure game.
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But I think that, now that Monkey 4 isn't the last entry in the series anymore, a lot of people will soften their opinion on the matter. I think everyone is quite aware of the mistakes made in Escape, and everyone realised what the real essence of Monkey Island is. Needless to say, I didn't feel the same way when I got the game a couple of months later.īut part of me is happy that Monkey 4 happened, because without this game I doubt Monkey 5 wouldn't be nearly as good as it is now (or at least is shaping up to be).
I remember hearing about revisiting both Mêlée and Monkey Island and encountering characters you haven't seen since Monkey Island 1, and being convinced that this would be the Monkey Island game to end all Monkey Island games. Whenever I replay the game I try to give it the benefit of the doubt, and in parts of the game I can trick myself into thinking I'm playing a lovely Monkey Island-game, but the further you get in the game the more it falls apart. Monkey 4 focused on one aspect of Monkey Island - being funny. I felt there was a story behind every building, that every island had some sort of awesome history. Monkey 4 is probably the biggest MI in terms of content, but the world of the other 3 (quite possibly 4 now) just felt a lot bigger. It's just that replaying any of the other games (or playing Monkey 5 for that matter) allow me to quite easily imagine it's still 1997 and I'm still 10 years old.
It's a funny, long adventure game with quite a lot of amusing puzzles.
I assume the smurf-like houses, the controls, the talking monkey, the robots and the sushi bar already had enough coverage, and I don't think I can add a lot to that.
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