Publisher/Developer: Telltale Games
Genre: Adventure
Price: Five episode bundle at $34.95
Verdict: More humorous adventures from the folks at Telltale. Get it if you love Monkey Island or Telltale.
Pros: Excellent and humorous voice acting and script. Great visual style.
Cons: A few instances of missing animations and glitched items.
See my review of Chapter 1 here!
Since finishing the first chapter of Tales of Monkey Island, I took the chance to play the remake of the original game in the series, Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition so that I could familiarize myself with the origin of this adventure-gaming species and perhaps understand more of the in-jokes and self referential humor.
Chapter 2 begins exactly where chapter 1 left off. If you haven’t played the first chapter yet, I will not spoil that plot point. Unlike most of Telltale’s other episodic adventure games, Tales of Monkey Island requires that you purchase the entire season ahead of time, and not in individual episodes. This is because of the nature of the episodic storytelling used in Monkey island; it’s all one episodic tale instead of separate non-connected adventures.
If you’ve read the review for Chapter 1, there’s little difference with Chapter 2 besides the continuing story, new puzzles, and new characters. This time around, Guybrush continues his piratey swashbuckling in the Spinner Cay islands. The area of Spinner Cay feels larger than Flotsam Island in the first chapter, and gives the impression that this episode is longer than the last one.
Puzzles seem less convoluted this time around, everything making perfect cartoony sense when all is said and done. I didn’t have any roadblocks with the puzzles in this chapter; everything worked itself out nicely through a bit of trial, error, and plenty of mouse clicking.
The humorous dialogue does not disappoint. Guybrush Threepwood and the colorful cast of characters deliver witty repartee with proper comedic timing necessary to elicit laughter from the guts of men. I may have disturbed by neighbors with my loud laughter.
There are a few problems in this episode, but they are minor compared to the immense fun to be had. At a few points there were some missing animations, such as one character floating across the ground instead of walking. At another point, a character disappears from the spot they were standing but the dialoge recognizes that the character is still there. A phantom item was floating above the ground in another spot after you collected the same island a few scenes ago. Thankfully, collecting the same item didn’t result in any crashes or other problems.
At the end of the day, it’s another great P&C’er from Taletell games worthy of your purchase. If you’ve already bought the entire season, then what are you doing reading this? You should be sitting on front of your PC monitor, getting carpal tunnel and laughing your gluteus maximus off.
Additional Note: I love that Pyrite Parrot. If there were one for sale, I’d buy it right away. Make it happen Telltale Games!
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