so it turns out that this is just a framing device and the entire game takes place during a flashback. His coat's pretty awesome too.įortunately Governor Elaine Marley, his love interest from the first game, has shown up in the nick of time! Unfortunately she's not going to lift a finger to help him until she's heard the story of how he got down here. Man, the guy must have phenomenal upper body strength, grip and stamina. Except this time he's an actual real pirate, with a coat and a beard, and he's ended up hanging over a chasm with a rope in one hand and a treasure chest in the other somehow. Like the first Monkey Island, the story starts with heroic pirate wannabe Guybrush Threepwood having a chat in a cutscene. unless you've read my Curse of Monkey Island post, then I already have. I won't be ruining that ending for anyone who hasn't beaten it yet though. Who'd even want to explore a pirate town without the music seamlessly shifting to give each area its own theme?Īlright, this is an adventure game, so by writing about the first hour or so of gameplay I'm going to inevitably end up giving SPOILERS for the early puzzles. Which is good, because it'd only screw up the dynamic iMUSE effect. The disc also has a version of Monkey Island 1 on it that's been updated with CD quality music, but Monkey 2 only has the original MIDI soundtrack. I dug out my old Monkey Island Madness compilation CD for this and I'll be playing the game using ScummVM, because it's awesome. But I just managed to find a few thousand words to type about bloody Star Wars the other day for my sci-fi site so now I feel like I can take on anything Lucasfilm can throw at me! Though the game development group had firmly switched over to the name 'LucasArts' by this point, making this the first in the series to have the iconic Golden Guy logo (there's no skit though). The game's so famous and has been so thoroughly examined that anything I write about it here will be entirely redundant I might as well just show off some screenshots and call it a day. Monkey Island 2 is a game that needs no introduction and to be honest it doesn't need any commentary or reviews either. Either way around it's still going to screw up your meticulously organised alphabetically ordered game library.

This week on Super Adventures I'm playing LucasArts' legendary point-and-click adventure game Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge! Or LeChuck's Revenge: Monkey Island according to that logo up there.

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