Escape from Monkey Island™

The whole game is good, besides Monkey Combat and the crappy controls.

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Tried to play and it cruined my display, had to reboot to fix. I would love to play but will stick to watching a playthrough unfortunatley. The games 1-3 are excellent though

Just finished playing it. So the good first. The creators of Escape From Monkey Island wanted to think outside the box and use the advances in computers to improve the game. They made it 3-D game and changed the controls. Only keys. No mouse was needed. THIS took time for me to get use to., Also, let us move into the bad. Being 3-D AND having new controls made moving around a pain. And because everything WAS 3-D it sometimes hard to find items and many times I got trapped by objects in my way. Or no objects at all. Also the islands were small, many of the characters I loved were no longer in the game, the puzzles were either too easy or too hard. I had to cheat, look up stuff on the net, twice. One, I had to look up how to find a coffee cup. Not joking. The ugly. Monkey Kombat. Which took me hours and had a hidden puzzle in it that I never even knew existed. In fact it seems many players did not know it existed and had to look up the answer. Because without the answer you can't finish the game. Which was the second time I cheated. Also I really didn't find the jokes in the game funny and the main storyline was meh. If this was a amazon review I might give it a two out of five stars out of pithy. But it really is a one out of five. Just skip to the next Monkey Island game.

2/5 This game is hardly playable. I wasn't even half way through when I hit a game breaking bug. Ozzy Mandrill could never leave Pegnose Pete's shack, he would always get stuck, and that is where my game ended. Whatever, this game has some of the worst controls in a game I've ever played. Everything is keyboard only. There is no menu to display the key bindings either so you will need to go online and look up how to move around and what buttons to press. F1 should help you get started. Never in my life have I had to use the Page Up and Down keys until now (to shift selections). Arrows to turn, Shift runs, U, L, P, and I ( thats i ) , for most everything else. One more thing, the game is so old and busted (thanks GrimeE engine) that the game takes over the entire main screen (monitor) and you have no access to anything else on your system. No windows key, Alt+Tab, nothing. You can download EMI Launcher to help with that but it's not much better. And if you want to stream it, even then OBS still cannot detect it as a window or otherwise. EDIT: I watched the rest of the game played through and I was very disappointed in what I saw. The puzzles must be some of the worst ones yet, even worse than MI2. Dialog didn't get much better but most of that was skipped. Yet the environments were so dull and Monkey Kombat is pretty terrible. I thought the insult battles of the past were over done but this isn't even fun to begin with. It's just a super annoying Rock Paper Scissors game.

[h1] 3D Monkeys are not working for me brother [/h1] Guybrush is back and needs to solve government problems, what a game! There's so many problems with this game, I don't even know how to start. First, the 3D is awful, I know it's an old game and all but good lord, this is a 2D only game. Then there's the gameplay, it's not a point and click game anymore, no clicking, just keyboarding (?) and it is bad. Finally, you can't mess with the configs, the game starts in fullscreen and locks you in that screen, you can't even alt+tab. Overall, a bad MI experience, I couldn't even finish. 2/10

Otro clasico de LucasArts que no puede faltar en las bibliotecas de los que aman las aventuras graficas. Si bien este Monkey Island es el mas flojito de los 4 primeros, no deja de tener sus momentos graciosos e iconicos. Al tener un motor 3d ya anticuado es que el peor envejecio de los clasicos. Aun asi, me parece que merece una oportunidad y se divertiran. 8/10

Worst Showing of the Monkey Island series. I'm glad I skipped this one back in the day, I tried it out of the need to complete and finish every Monkey Island title out there. This one, well where do I begin. Controls are clunky. This is a throwback to the era this game came out in. Put 3D monkey island shows its limits. The jokes and writing were actually good. Then...you get to "Monkey Kombat" the designers were on something highly illegal when they created that system...

even if you can get it to work, dont bother. please