The visually upgraded adventures of Gulybrush Threepwood, mighty pirate, will continue on the 7th of June with Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge. As always, Steam has an offer a true adventure lover can’t resist. For pre-ordering the game, you will also get The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition for free which is of course the first game. Thankfully you don’t have to wait to play the first game, you can start downloading it as soon as your payment is complete. The game costs 10€, not sure if it’s a pre-order price.
If you don’t know what the fuss is about, you should know that ~20 years ago, adventure games were the games everyone was playing. Monkey Island was one of its kind, with clever puzzles, witty humour and of course pirates. You can imagine what kind of visuals went with a game back then, so in order to bring the experience to today’s audience, some improvements had to be made.
All the art was re-done to make it as good looking as it is, and voice acting was also added because we all know nobody actually reads today.
I must admit, I haven’t played a lot with the first two Monkey Islands, cos I was about 12 and didn’t speak any English. The franchise only started at the third game for me. Last year when the first special edition was released I was hoping they would do the same with the sequel, so I didn’t buy it then. Instead, I dived into Tales of Monkey Island by Telltale Games. And here we are today, my patience has payed off and I can get the bundle.
Wonder if they’ll remake The Curse of Monkey Island. I still have the game on my shelf and it still works (with ScummVM).