Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™

Monkey Island 2 starts incredibly strong! I was hooked from the first scene. The early puzzles and writing were excellent. But as the game progressed, the puzzle quality steadily declined, and the ending felt disappointing. I’ve never encountered a more annoying puzzle than the Monkey Ranch one, it’s baffling how anyone could call that fun. The twist ending didn’t land for me; I felt let down rather than amused. It’s still a solid game made just a year after the original (a real accomplishment), with fantastic humour and a memorable soundtrack (even with early 90s beeps and bops). But the downward slide in puzzle design and the unsatisfying conclusion keeps it from being essential to me [u] Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge — Special Edition Notes [/u] The Special Edition of Monkey Island 2 improves on the first remake in a lot of ways, A big plus in the Monkey Island 2 remake is how you can natively toggle the classic pixel graphics while keeping the voice acting and updated soundtrack; no mods needed! It’s a thoughtful touch that makes the experience feel complete, unlike the first remake where switching to pixel mode disables voices by default. but what really stood out to me was the remastered soundtrack. It’s fantastic, dynamic, rich, and memorable. Even after I finished the game, some of those [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpVF2t39jEc] Tunes [/url] stuck with me. Even with its pacing issues, the music really stood out to me.

It's really, really good until it's not anymore. Puzzles often rely on dialogue you only hear once and probably heard hours ago in-game, and possibly days ago irl if you play slowly. You can be walking around with almost 50 items in your inventory, a lot of which is red herring garbage, and still be missing some minor item that was fully blended into the background, even though the new graphics try to fix this problem. But you're *still* not completing this without checking guides, possibly multiple times. Moon logic is through the roof. There are also multiple points of frustration involving puzzles on timers. The speed at which you can move from room to room is also fairly slow, which makes it incredibly annoying when you need to backtrack for items or test your puzzles theories. There are a number of animations peppered throughout the game that are needlessly padded out, actually. But my final reason for a negative review is the ending. I feel like my time has been wasted by this game and this limp, unsatisfying story that feels like it considers me a fool for being actually invested. The series being stuck with this ending for years inspires very little hope.

One of the funniest games I have ever played, I can't wait to play the next one

Old classic game