Supporting characters are hit and miss, but bringing back the voice of Murray from Curse Of Monkey Island to narrate is a stroke of genius. Alexandra Boyd as Elaine is great as always but doesn’t have much to say (players forget how limited Elaine’s role was in the original) and it is as always an aural delight to hear Earl Boen once more as LeChuck. The voice acting hits its mark 99% of the time too: Dominic Armato as Guybrush Threepwood is obviously having the time of his life speaking these long silent lines. Water now flows and shimmers and LecChuck leaves a ghostly outline wherever he goes.īesides, switching to classic mode turns off the new voice work (which is a disappointment) to remain faithful to the original text only presentation. The original hasn’t suddenly disappeared after all, and the new graphical updates are great. I eventually decided to stop switching back and forth so much: it is better to just focus on the new content and treat is as a new game. This is why the switching feature is such a double-edged sword of course: it is almost inviting fans to pour over each screen in painstaking detail and weigh up whether justice has been done.Īnother example is LeChuck: decidedly blue in the original, yet updated in the Special Edition to wear his now standard red overcoat. A perfect example is shown above: the original dock looked far more simplistic 20 years ago, with the moon a mere dot on the horizon. However, the updated content could also prove controversial: some backgrounds are 1:1 updates and look great, whereas others have taken artistic licence and changed the scene quite drastically. It is a feature that never gets old and I often found myself switching back and forth to remember just how much the original has dated graphically and musically.
#THE SECRET OF MONKEY ISLAND SPECIAL EDITION COLLECTION FULL#
Wonderfully, a click of ‘F10’ on the keyboard switches the game between how it used to look with MIDI sound, and the updated Special Edition with full voicework and a real instrumental soundtrack.
There is a comedic tone to the proceedings that is still very strong even today due to the excellent script.
Arriving on the island of Mêlée, Guybrush meets the beautiful governor Elaine Marley and learns of the fearsome ghost pirate LeChuck, who has underhand plans to make Elaine his bride.Īlong the way, players will point and click in a traditional style, collecting objects, interacting with the various environments and chatting to a wide array of characters. Playing The Secret Of Monkey Island: Special Edition once more, I fell in love with Monkey Island (TM) all over again.įor those few who have not played the original game, you take control of Guybrush Threepwood, a young man with dreams of becoming a mighty pirate. I recently decided to play the Special Edition in its entirety, so that I could be better prepared for my upcoming review of the Special Edition of LeChuck’s Revenge. I am ashamed to admit that I let Tales Of Monkey Island’s coverage on AMO swallow up any coverage of this remake upon release: between my reviews of the new games and my numerous interviews with Guybrush Threepwood voice actor Dominic Armato, I had very little time to replay a game that I had already completed countless times.
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