First chapter in the 5 chapter story. While explosively stripping the evil pirate LeChuck of his demonic mojo, Guybrush Threepwood inadvertently infects the entire Caribbean with the arch-fiend's expelled voodoo, which threatens to transform buccaneers into unruly pirate monsters. Pursued by a notorious cut-throat Pirate Hunter and a creepy French Physician who believes that Guybrush's eerily-infected hand holds the secret of eternal life, Threepwood sails the seven seas in search of La Esponja Grande, a legendary sea sponge with unparalleled voodoo exfoliating abilities. But little does Guybrush know, his quest is part of a larger, more sinister plot, and good and evil are not always as they seem…
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Best game to come out of Telltale yet.
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Increíble. Después de probar la demo tengo ganas de comprarme el juego. Y lo haré, pinta muy bien ;)
I believed that this game was decent, not as good as the others but may be better thourgh the rest of the game.
Love ALL monkey Island games, only played the first chapter of course, the meaningfull play seams somewhat simple, but that could be because I played the first four games before and in highschool... Love it all the same <3
After years and years of waiting and out of nowhere we get 5 episodes of Monkey Island goodness. Although it is not a LucasArts only project anymore, it seems Telltale Games has really put effort in Tales of Monkey Island. Is this the great successor of The Curse of Monkey Island? It might be!
Game Play: 7/10
As its predecessor there is no point and click movement. Instead of this, you hold down the left mouse button and point in the direction you want to walk. To be honest I don't entirely like this, it just doesn't feel as good. If you're a qwerty keyboard user, you can also use the WASD keys for movement. AZERTY users are in the dark on this one as you cannot change the keys, so you'll either have to live with using a weird layout for movement or manually go change your keyboard to qwerty in the Windows settings. Hitting the I button opens up your inventory.
The GUI is really minimalistic, move your mouse to the right border of the screen and the inventory "scroll" will show up, click it and it will unfold. Say goodbye to drag and dropping items onto each other to combine them. There are two "holes" where you can put items for combining. Where there used to be several actions possible (e.g. Talk, Examine, ...) al you can do now is examine items with the magnifying glass. To have something in your inventory interact with the game, you can select the item and click on the point of interest.
This is also the case in the entire game, when there's some item or place of interest its name will show up and you can click it, the game will automatically use the appropriate action.
As you might know from previous MI games, there's a lot of dialogue in the game. You start talking to a person, and if you get a reaction you can select your answer from a number of options.
For those who are not exactly familiar with the point and click genre Telltale added a hint system, which is adjustable (from lots of hints to none at all) in the options menu.
Story: 7/10
The story is divided into 5 chapters, each being "separate games". Once more you're playing as "Mighty Pirate" Guybrush Threepwood. This time his clumsiness caused a major problem. Elaine got captured again, LeChuck has got a transformation and then there's this cursed hand. Each chapter reveals a piece of the puzzle and advances the story where Mister Wood goes to look for a cure and -finally- finishes of LeChuck once and for all.
Graphics: 8/10
After playing Escape I really feared they would use those graphics for TOMI as well, luckily they didn't. The fully 3D graphics might scare you at start, but they grow on you very fast. All the familiar characters have gotten a well done 3D transformation, some people are annoyed because they changed the appearance of Guybrush a bit (e.g. the multiple earrings) but trust me, you won't even notice those if you're not staring at your character.
If you have a high end machine you can really make this game look splendid, the resolution can be set pretty high, as well as the level of detail. But if you have a regular computer with a modest GPU you might wanna reduce the quality and resolution a little. This is due to the fact your cursor will lag when you're moving it and it's extremely annoying. When playing in windowed mode, this happens even faster because it takes more CPU and GPU power.
Music / Speech / SFX: 8/10
They really kept close to the music of the previous Monkey Island games. The ambient music sounds great and is not too repetitive. Sound effects are subtle but a welcome addition to the atmosphere of the game. A feature introduced in CMI is speech... for ALL dialogues. This is really something, they got the same cast, so Guybrush, LeChuck and Elaine sound as you're used to. Thanks to the lip sync, the character's faces move naturally when they are speaking.
Play Time / Replay Value: 8/10
I like it, really. There are five chapters in this story, each going from about 2 to 5 hours of playtime depending on how fast you solve the puzzles, if you talk to everyone and check out every little thing there is to check out.
Unfortunately unlike Curse of Monkey Island there is no Mega Monkey mode with extra puzzles so replaying this doesn't give you anything extra. The only reason I can imagine someone replaying the game is when they rushed to play through it and wanna explore all the areas thoroughly. However, the game is amusing enough to play again after a year or so, just for fun.
Overall: 8/10
I really feared they might screw up but aside from the Telltale Games server drowning in the stream of enthusiastic people eager to get the first episode they really did an extremely good job adding a new chapter in the Monkey Island series. Here are some pro and cons in a nutshell:
Pro:
- Playtime (Over 15 hours)
- Great voice acting
- Humor
- Save/Load anytime you want
Con:
- Clumsy movement
- Inventory could be a bit better
Review: http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/review/R135205.html
I can't believe it... CMI, best game EVER. Period.
I can't wait to play this one.
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Seems interesting.
Great game, a worthy successor for The Curse of Monkey Island. It has its minor flaws though, and is pretty heavy on average machines.
The most amazing game, EVER.
Really, ever.
Well, after CMI.