MONKEY BUSINESS

Is RETURN TO MONKEY ISLAND worth the three-decade wait?

- Will Freeman

NEED TO KNOW 

WHAT IS IT? A bright, knowingly daft point-and-click adventure that picks up after 1991’s Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge

EXPECT TO PAY £19.50

DEVELOPER Terrible Toybox

PUBLISHER Devolver Digital, Lucasfilm Games

REVIEWED ON  Intel i7-8550U, GeForce MX150, 16GB RAM

MULTIPLAYER No

LINK bit.ly/3UPo0X9

The infamously bewildering ending to 1991’s Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge left players longing for resolution that subsequent Monkey Island games never delivered. Three decades later, and after effectively saying it would likely never happen, key members of the original Monkey Island team – including series creator Ron Gilbert – have finally made the game that picks up after the closing moments of LeChuck’s Revenge.

Return to Monkey Island’s mischievous opening confidently asserts that this is the authentic Monkey Island experience we’ve come for: sharp, self-aware, and brilliantly silly. It’ll bombard you with gags, but the characters you meet are more than comedic props, and the cunning stream of interwoven puzzles has been modernised to keep the pace up without losing the satisfaction of problem solving. It’s a massive success.

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