Enjoyable if a little short, but well worth the money
Dominic Armato and Alexandra Boyd have been reunited as Guybrush and Elaine, although sadly Earl Bowen has not returned as the voice of LeChuck. The game is almost as funny as I remember the others being, and there are many witty one-liners from Guybrush, although the rest of the cast's voice acting is a little wooden. The puzzle difficulty is almost uniformly too easy, but I don't consider this to be a bad thing. Monkey Island puzzles used to be obtuse and frustrating, whereas these were quite easy to work out, even if the exact mechanism eluded me. At one point however, it did degenerate into me wiping every object against every other object. That is just poor game design! I also found the contol mechanism very annoying. To move your character you can hold down a mouse button and drag it in the direction you wish to go, although he walks very slowly, and it is not perfect. Sometimes he walks in completely the opposite direction. You can use the keyboard, but sometimes he gets stuck on scenery, but it is much better. I honestly preferred 2D adventure games, they were easier to navigate and I like the art style better, but despite this the graphics are quite nice. The music is well produced, the story is quite engaging, and for £4 per episode (at current exchange rate) I am not at all disappointed. I wish they could have made a game as good as Curse (MI3), where years were spent on the backgrounds and characters, as well as the musical score, but I appreciate that these games do not sell well enough to justify that amount of money. Lavish adventure games are a thing of the past, but in their new form, these cheaply produced episodic games keep the genre alive, if only for a little longer.