Return to Monkey Island is a return to point-and-click greatness
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More than 30 years later, the legendary 90s adventure franchise finally gets a sequel worthy of the Monkey Island name.
If you’re a child of the 90s you might remember the landmark Monkey Island series of computer games.
Monkey Island came out during the heyday of LucasArts – a subsidiary of Lucasfilm that was extremely beloved not just for its Star Wars games, but for its quirky, heartfelt point-and-click adventure games like Maniac Mansion, Sam and Max, and the Indiana Jones series.
The first two games in the Monkey Island series, from legendary developers Tim Schafer, Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman, were critically acclaimed, but the series had a noted downturn after Gilbert left.
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Since then, the IP has more or less bobbed up and down, with those first two games remaining a bar that none of the rest of the series has managed to hit.
It could be because that spirit has gone, or because the point-and-click genre didn’t really survive past the 90s, and more’s the pity.
Gilbert and Grossman have returned for Return to Monkey Island, which is a direct sequel to the second game, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge, released in 1991.
It’s no coincidence that this is the best game in the series since they left.
It’s a new Monkey Island game! In 2022! That should be enough.
Seriously, though, there’s a texture, and more importantly a sense of humour to the Monkey Island games that isn’t exactly lost in 2022, but still feels like a delightful throwback.
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