For my 100th review I’m going to take you on a trip to Monkey Island in one of my favorite games of all time.
The gameplay in CoMI is really awesome. You move around by a point and click interface. You point the mouse to where you want to go and then click to move there. You can also hold down the mouse button to bring up options such as the ability to talk, examine, or use. To make your way through CoMI you’ll have to use everything in sight so this interface is great and really helps you out.
Interacting with people and objects is one of the best things you can do in CoMI. You can try to talk to almost anything if you talk to people it will bring up many different things that you can say. Many of these are very humorous and add to the great sense of humor that CoMI has. However if you try talking to inanimate objects Guybrush will respond with some sort of line about how he isn’t crazy.
One of the best things about CoMI is the amount of puzzles. Some people will think of the amount as too large but for me it’s the perfect amount. All of the puzzles are different and unique in their own way. To solve them you’ll have to find an object and use it in a certain way. At times the object that you need is a rather obscure object that you wouldn’t think of using.
The graphics in CoMI are outdated now but still look nice. The game has a great cartoony feel to it. All of the places you visit in CoMI look great and are just very cool to look at. And the characters all have their own different styles of walking and talking that look very cool.
The sound is absolutely fantastic. The musical score is amazing and the voice acting is even better. Many of the hilarious dialogue lines are made much better by the incredible voice acting. And the musical score has a great calypso feel to it and never gets annoying. The sound effects have a nice quirky feel to them that goes great with the style of the game.
Value wise CoMI is a fairly long game clocking in at about 10 to 15 hours. But there are two different difficulties. There is the regular difficulty and the Mega-Monkey difficulty which changes some puzzles and adds some more puzzles.
All in all The Curse of Monkey Island is easily my favorite game of all time. It’s a fantastic adventure game filled to the brim with great puzzles, nice graphics, a fantastic musical score, and tons of hilarious dialogue. So if you can find a copy of this game I highly recommend you pick it up because you won’t regret it.
~LOZFAN6537
P.S. Just as an added note this is my 100th review on Gamespot!