- #The secret of monkey island special edition update#
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In 2009, the indie scene was pretty active, but maybe hadn’t quite permeated into the mainstream to the extent it has now, and maintaining the original pixelly graphics as a deliberate choice was probably never on the cards.
And, as with anything that boasts a significant fan following, one doesn’t have to search far for negative feedback on this aspect of the Special Edition, with Guybrush’s haircut a particular target of strong feeling.Īs someone who played the EGA and VGA versions at the time, with eyes used to 90s visuals, I’m hardly impartial, but I’d possibly go back to what I said about remakes dating themselves to a certain point in time. The graphics are sharp and not without a certain charm of their own, although it’s also fairly disconcerting to see something so familiar transformed in such a fashion.
#The secret of monkey island special edition full#
In summary, what’s new here is some all new artwork, an updated interface, and full voice overs for all characters, with Dominic Armato, who undertook duties for games 3 ( Curse of Monkey Island) and 4 ( Escape from Monkey Island) plus Telltale’s Tales of Monkey Island, returning as Guybrush. As we all know, reviewing games is a highly precise and scientific business, so lest you concern yourself with the discrepancies between the two reviews, rest assured that the FFG Review-Tron 3000™ has been specifically calibrated to account for each and every one of them. So we’ll focus mainly on those aforementioned bells and whistles, although I haven’t actually played Monkey Island since 2005, and so some reflections on the game itself will also be offered. Because this is, in almost every fundamental respect, the same game: you can, if you so choose, turn off all of the new bells and whistles, and simply choose to play through the unburnished VGA version that we reviewed previously.
#The secret of monkey island special edition update#
So, here we are, playing and reviewing Monkey Island again, after a brief internal debate of our own about re-hashing old content and the value of re-reviewing an update of a game we’ve already covered (short answer: it’s fine). Making conversation with local law enforcement.
(For at least some of the many, many games that I acquire with the intention of covering them for the site ‘one day’, that day does eventually come). Until now, when it turned out that I wanted to play the game again, and dipped into the GOG library to confirm that I had indeed bought it some time ago with such an occasion in mind.
As the Special Edition was (and remains, at the time of writing) the only commercially available version of The Secret of Monkey Island, we (by which I mean I) blithely added a note about it to the bottom of this site’s review of the original a couple of years after it was released and thought little more of it. Remastered versions of some LucasArts adventures have started to appear via Tim Schafer’s Double Fine Productions over the past five years or so, although this pre-dates all of them and is pitched specifically as an updated ‘Special Edition’ which goes beyond a mere sharpening of the same basic game, introducing all-new graphics, and adding voice acting where there previously was none. On the other hand, I prefer the VGA re-release of The Secret of Monkey Island to the EGA original, so perhaps I don’t really know what I’m talking about. The update then becomes of its time and at a later stage the prevailing opinion may be that it either requires a further update of its own, or that the original was perfectly fine as it was and has in fact aged more gracefully than the newer version. And while it’s not an issue about which I can become particularly exercised, for what it’s worth, I think I’m mainly of the school of thought that games are of their time, and any notion of providing a ‘modern’ update is inherently flawed. Spoiler: you do have to go into the kitchen.Īrguments about the merits, or otherwise, of remakes, remasters and the like are fairly well-worn.
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