He’ll apparently do whatever it takes to accomplish this, yet he’s far too good natured to understand what being a pirate really entails. Guybrush is an incompetent but optimistic youth whose guiding ambition is to be a pirate. The lasting appeal of Monkey Island is in its dialogue writing and in its central character. You’re controlling him to a large extent, but he’s also a beautifully drawn independent character whose endless buffoonery makes you laugh. Your control over Guybrush is limited in the sense that you can choose what he says in conversation, but only from a range of possible sentences you can tell him to pick things up, but if the object is irrelevant to the vast mechanism of progress Guybrush will find an excuse to disobey. Using a cursor to point and click, you have to guide Guybrush through fixed 2D backgrounds, picking up objects and deploying them to solve puzzles either singly or in combination with others in your inventory, as well as interacting with the scenery and talking to people. You take on the role of Guybrush Threepwood’s semi-potent carer as he sets out to become a pirate.
Video game writing has rarely reached the same heights. Monkey Island’s heritage is in video games, of course, but it’s also in literature (as well as in the same Disneyland ride that spawned Pirates of the Caribbean). It was one of those satisfying moments when you discover a reference all by yourself.
Wodehouse's Something Fresh, and a few pages in I came across a character called Freddie Threepwood. Now off you go.įor the rest of you cross-legged, wide-eyed innocents who’ve yet to embark with master Guybrush Threepwood on what may be the finest adventure ever committed to silicon, I’ll try to convey the sheer majesty of The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition without robbing you of the enviable joy of discovery by saying too much. If you’re anything like me, the only thing you want from this review is either an imperial thumbs-up, indicating that it does the franchise justice, or a thumbs-down, indicating that it disgraces it and deserves to be beheaded by a slave.
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