The Secret of Monkey Island is THE graphic adventure. Funny, engaging, gorgeous art... It's a game full of highlights and worth playing once in your life. That said, I'm not a fan of the new art. I don't like it and if I compare it to the original pixel art I can only name it hideous, I don't understand how it got approved. But since you can switch the art style on the go that is not a problem (for me). The added voices are great though. So the only problem with this game is why the hell can't we play with the original graphics and the new voices. There is not an option for that. Judging by what I read on forums a lot of people would love to be able to. And it is possible using ScummVM and following a slightly complex tutorial, but... it should be an ingame option.

I don't know why people are crying so much about the "new" artwork. You can play with the old artwork and UI by hitting F10.

i have played this for 4 hours so far and i have yet to see a single monkey
edit: found the monkeys

The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition is a remake of the popular Lucas Art point and click adventure game which was released back in 1990. The remake was released in mid-2009 on PC, Mac, PSN and Xbox Live Arcade. The game is set in the Caribbean at the time of pirates. You play as Guy Threepwood - a guy who dreams of becoming a pirate.

This game is set in a third person perspective point and click style gameplay. You are able to explore around the world and interact with objects in a couple of different ways, such as inspecting them, picking them up, pushing or pulling for example, whilst you are also able to interact with other NPCs in the game through multiple dialogue options. The game has no death scenes in it for your character; game play is heavily focused on puzzles and exploring. The puzzles in The Secret of Monkey Island are in adventure style; and make no sense what so ever until you finally figure it out, then it becomes clear as day, but all of the puzzles are fun to take part in. Personally my favourite would be the pirate insulting duels. This was the first game in a long while that actually had me taking notes on a pen and paper! None of the puzzles are really time based, so you can spend as much time as you want on them without being penalized.

What I really liked about The Secret of Monkey Island is that you can either play the game in the remastered settings with the higher quality art style, or you can actually play it in the classic pixel style that the original game was based on, you can do this on a scene by scene basis too. The art style of the remastered edition looks really good though, lots of vibrant colours and some really nice looking background environments.

As this was my first experience with The Secret of Monkey Island I wasn't sure what to expect from it story wise, but I was pleasantly surprised when there is a whole load of humour added into the plot. Every single character I ran into had an extremely memorable persona. I don't want to spoil any of the story since the game is essentially the story, but it is captivating and interesting right until the end.

The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition is completely voice acted, and done really well. Even the none main characters are voice acted, such as bar dwellers and town folk which was a nice touch, much of the sound track is also the same, just remastered to a higher quality.

This is another game that completely baffled me at parts, whether it be on some of the puzzles or just knowing where to go next to progress the story; which resulted in me looking up the guide, to be honest I am not sure how you are supposed to figure some of it but it has been done by plenty of others! I was really immersed in the story of the game and didn't want to lose too much time faffing around with not knowing where to go so I was happy to look up the answers this time.

Each of the game's scenes has plenty of objects that you can interact with, most will end up with Guy giving some sort of witty remark towards them, and there are also lots of NPCs which you can talk with to get more out of the plot and some of the side stories going off in the game too.

The Secret of Monkey Island took me ten hours to complete; this was with the aid of a guide at parts, and following up all dialog options with NPCs to get the most out of the lore; I thought this was a pretty good length for the game considering I actually thought it would be a lot shorter given my past experience of point and click games. Given that the story is linear and that there is only one ending to the game, there is no reason to replay it through a second time though.

Given that this is a remastered edition of the game, it works fine on the newer operating systems, and I was able to play at 4K resolutions perfectly fine. I encountered minor problems with the controls in the game, and the scroll wheel functionality when choosing which action to take on objects stopping randomly - but this was easily worked around by using the keyboard shortcuts. An odd issue which has been reported is that for some reason the game refuses to run when being installed on a 3 TB hard drive, so that may be something to consider if you are purchasing it and you only have a 3 TB drive.

The Secret of Monkey Island is often referred to as the pinnacle of point and click adventure games, and this series is what spawned many more of the greats we have today, and rightly so. I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of my time playing this game, and the story is absolutely brilliant and I cannot wait to get stuck into the rest of the series. The low price of £6, 99 on Steam makes The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition a serious contender for a must play title.


Tom's Score Card
1) Stay away
2) Not Recommended
3) Only recommended when on sale
4) Recommended
5) Highly recommended
6) This is a must play

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I know it's 2020 and this game is like a decade old. The original game is even older; 30 years this year. But even today there are not many games which can hold so much magic and story as this game.

This game is a MUST play. If you've never played Monkey Island than you can't consider yourself a pc gamer. This game is the game I grew up with. Its one of those masterpieces which sucks you in and does not let you go until you finish it.

I first played it as a kid on my dad's i386dx. My native language not being English it was a struggle to learn the dialog and the meaning of the sentences. But the game was so magical I quickly learnt with my friends how to solve the puzzles. We had no internet no guides only friends and we played it over and over again. It was a magical time.

In 1990 this game had EGA graphics, pc bleep sounds and no real voice. This special Edition has incredible graphics, completely voiced dialogs and a modern ui. It's a real tribute to the original game and even has a version with audio comments from the creators. And if you feel real nostalgic, you can even play the game with it's original graphic which you can switch in-game on the fly.

The story is about an average, a bit boring, dull guy who wants to become a Pirate. That's your goal. This unravels into an incredible story and hilarious puzzles and scenes. If you're not into point-and-click adventures, this is the game to play to see for yourself how incredible this game genre can be. And if you are into the type of games; why the hell are you here reading this review?? Go play!!


We're living in a strange world right now, Corona is making us sit at home and sometime we maybe loose meaning.. grap yourself a drink, play this game, enjoy it with friends as I did, don;t look on the internet for clues but speak online about it with friends. It will make you for a short time forget the world we are living in today, and give you a wonderous, magical and enjoyable experience.

"Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game!" ~Guybrush Threepwood

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The Real Secret of Monkey Island: Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.

"Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game."

Someone wise once said, "Never pay more than $20 for a computer game." I got this fame for free with a 1x CD-ROM and a Sound Blaster Pro. I've played it countless times, and while the VGA graphics are timeless (and clearly superior to the EGA version), I felt the desire for something a little fresher, so I picked this version up.

It's not bad. The new graphics are pretty good, with the unfortunate exception of the ghastly model used for Guybrush Threepwood. Since he's on screen most of the time, you're stuck looking at him, unless you can find a modwith a better model. Well, you're not stuck with him--you can turn the new graphics off and go back to the classic VGA version--but then you don't get Dominic Armato's great voice acting. We lost one of the greats when he abandoned acting to write about food, but one must follow one's heart. And that's the other sticking point with this remake: You can't play the voices with the VGA graphics. I shouldn't be too upset at that, we didn't have any fancy voices when I first played SOMI; that kind of thing was for high-falutin fantasy adventures like LOOM, not for fun pirate adventures. Maybe there's a mod for that, too? But I digress. In any version, this is a classic game and you should play it. If you don't, you fight like a cow.