Much like in RPGs of yore, you can exhaust all the dialogue options to garner as much information as you can, or you can slip away once the necessary information has been collected. The ending isn’t ideal, but the adventure along the way makes for a worthwhile trip.ĭialogue plays a dynamic role, as your colourful associates will have plenty to say, but so will Guybrush. Acquiring the support of comrades is easier said than done though, forcing Guybrush to go out of his way to appease hard-to-please acquaintances, by swindling important quest items, spontaneously swashbuckling with friends and foes, and solving slippery skull-scratchers. What follows is a story of one upmanship, as Guybrush wants to assemble a crew and build a ship to beat his rival LeChuck to uncover the Secret of Monkey Island. Eventually, Boybrush takes a pew on a bench with his dad, as the latter regales him with his story of how he found the Secret of Monkey Island. The tale begins with Guybrush’s son, Boybrush, bumbling about with his chum Chuckie, buying a couple of Scurvydogs and washing their hands in brown gunk-you know, usual adolescent activities. The question is, do we need this return trip to Monkey Island, or will a revisit result in agony akin to squeezing a wedge of lime into both of your eyes?
His display of repetitious gloating is a taster of Return to Monkey Island’s humorous and harmonious fusion of puzzle adventuring and comedy. The giddiness of Guybrush as he waxes lyrical about his intentions belies the inherent pointlessness of his ceremony. Threepwood will gratuitously tell anybody on Melee Island, that he’s searching for the secret of Monkey Island, as though it’s a grand boast everyone should know about. Guybrush Threepwood comes off as an ambitious child in Return to Monkey Island, a long-awaited sequel in the beloved early-nineties point-and-click adventure series.
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