Before we begin, I’ll say this one time, and then Carl will probably start talking about how modern adventure games destroyed everything, and Tim will start his usual “I ‘discovered’ point-and-click games last year” nonsense, but I’ll tell you about the only game that invented everything the new games copy around. The Secret of Monkey Island not only defined adventure gaming, it perfected it on the first try. In fact, the Secret of Monkey Island…

Look, here’s the thing about Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge. It’s when LucasArts stopped having a laugh and started making killer stuff. I’ve played this game since the early 90s when I finally got a proper PC, and even now, with teenagers who roll their eyes at games if they don’t have a battle royale mode, I can fire this up and get sucked in for hours. Sam here, and while team RPS always argues…

The Curse of Monkey Island Review: Hand-Drawn Visual Style & Perfect Voice Acting Hello, Marcus here, and I want to talk about something that has bothered me in the way people discuss point-and-click adventure games for years. People say The Curse of Monkey Island is nothing more than “a lot of nice looking graphics,” and don’t understand what LucasArts did to advance the technology behind their games. The Curse of Monkey Island was released on…

Escape from Monkey Island Review: The 3D Experiment That Divided Fans The first thing about Escape from Monkey Island is that LucasArts took a huge risk by moving Guybrush Threepwood into the third dimension. Half the fans of the adventure game community went wild with excitement and the other half were terrified. As someone who has been a fan of the series since the early 1990s and spent countless hours with this divisive title, I…

Marcus here, and I’ve got something to admit. When Telltale announced a new Monkey Island game, the team had one of those heated Zoom arguments that Carl has to referee. Joe knows in his heart it’s rubbish since it’s not LucasArts, Tim is excited because episodic content is “the future of adventure games”, Sam is worried whether the puzzles will maintain the logical complexity of the earlier series. I stay quiet until I’ve played it,…

I wanted to get something off my chest before I go into detail on Return to Monkey Island. Joe here, and while the rest of the crew are arguing about whether modern adventure games can recapture the essence of the classics, I have spent the last month playing through Ron Gilbert’s triumphant return to his own franchise. Released on September 19, 2022 (Wikipedia), this is not another modern adventure game revival cash-in. This is Gilbert…