Most of the time this is either inspecting something, talking to someone, or picking something up. The bulk of items in the environment can only be interacted with in a maximum of two ways, controlled by left or right click. This is through and through another Monkey Island point-and-click adventure game, although it is somewhat streamlined from earlier entries. There is also a frame story, the details of which I don’t want to spoil, but it’s a fun early reveal. Therefore, at the start of Return to Monkey Island, when Guybrush hears that his nemesis LeChuck is also out to search for the Secret, he makes it his mission to beat LeChuck to the punch.

In the second, finding a different legendary treasure (Big Whoop), in the third, rescuing Elaine from a curse which turned her to solid gold.

In the first game, he was more preoccupied by rescuing Governor Elaine Marley (whom he later married) from the zombie ghost pirate LeChuck. Despite Guybrush’s myriad adventures, he hasn’t actually spent a great deal of time searching for it before now. Instead, it takes all the games (yes, even Tales of Monkey Island) as canon, giving Guybrush a new, and yet old adventure to finally actually find “The Secret of Monkey Island” that is the actual Secret, not the similarly named game.

Return to Monkey Island is not a direct sequel to Monkey Island 2, despite what you might have heard. Of course the Voodoo Lady is back, and you might even finally find out her name. Therefore, when it was announced earlier this year that Monkey Island would be getting a new instalment in the franchise, and that original series creator Ron Gilbert would be returning alongside Dave Grossman to lead the project, my excitement levels were high to say the least. Coupled with the fact that The Curse of Monkey Island (the third game in the series) is one of my all-time favourite games, and you can certainly call me a Monkey Island fan through and through. I only have a couple of memories of actually playing the game first the complicated code wheel entitled “Mix n’ Mojo” you had to use as copy protection to actually play the game, and then the scene where Guybrush Threepwood helms a coffin to find the Voodoo Lady’s emporium in the swamp.Īlmost certainly I didn’t finish any of the puzzles and never made it off Scabb Island, but it started my lifelong love of video games, and adventure games especially. At the time, four year-old me didn’t know anything about video games all I knew was that Monkey Island 2 was about pirates, and I loved pirates. I still have the original floppy disks to this day. Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revengeis the very first game I ever played, around about 1993. My gaming history is irrevocably linked to Monkey Island.

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