Monkey Island 2 is undoubtedly a classic of the genre, proving bigger and better than the original The Secret of Monkey Island in almost every way. So, the question isn’t ‘Is this a good game?’ it’s ‘Is this a better version?’.
To put it plainly, the answer is ‘Yes’, because this Special Edition holds everything that was in the original, plus a few improvements. In fact, it even has improvements added on over the improvements that were made for the Special Edition of the first game. It’s Monkey Island ++, if you like.
You may have head of The 7 Deadly Sins in Christianity, but what about The 7 Deadly Sins of Game Design? Jason Capp is here to break it down.
Ya, find three items, kill three mini bosses, go to three dungeons. Things of three is a tired video game sweet spot number.
For me, it's collect-a-thons. They weren't fun in Donkey Kong or Banjo and Kazooie and they still aren't fun now. Why create these wonderfully oversized, detailed worlds if you are going to just supplement gameplay with ambiguous item fetch-quests.
There are exceptions, of course, But by and large, it just shows laziness on the part of the developer.
Good article, by the way!
Yeah. It is funny some of the design decisions made by developers. Another one that irks me is unskippable cutscenes, especially after you die after the cutscene and are forced to rewatch the unskippable cutscene AGAIN. I mean, who thinks that a great idea?! haha
how about not allowing cutscene skipping
that's flat out inexcusable in any game in the last 10 years
this comments are demanding a "The 4 Horsemen of The Apocalypse of Game Design Flaws" sequel
Carlos writes "Adventure, secrets and all that precious booty! AYE AYE CAPTAIN! – and all without the sickness of the seven seas. That’s right as for two weeks Monkey Island 2: Special Edition is free for all Xbox Live Gold members."
I suggest anyone with an xbone or 360 get this game, along with broken sword 1 and 2 , monkey island are in the highest tier of point and click adventures. 100 percent recommend them to anyone the humour alone is worth it😊
edit: @ Chris, well I hope you enjoy it some find point and click adventures tedious because they aren't all action but I have always been a fan of them myself ever since text adventures which where basically the predecessors of them such as the Lord of the Rings text adventure games, dodgey geezers (not many people have played it unless from the UK and old like me ) , Balrog (classic text adventure made by a random guy for a competition) and the hobbit, all worth giving a go if you can handle playing a text adventure.
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Carlos writes "It’s hard to believe that January is almost over. It seems like only yesterday we were preparing ourselves for that scrumptious Christmas feast, but then if you look at just how much has happened in the world of gaming in January, you’d be forgiven for thinking we were fast approaching June with the countless releases arriving on consoles this month.
But with another month coming to a close, one thing we can always look forward to is the knowledge that some fresh new free games will headed the way of Xbox Live Gold members via the Xbox Games With Gold program. Whilst this is always an exciting prospect though, it can often lead to disappointment when the only titles we see hitting the scheme are ones we’d rather forget. So, with February’s games being announced recently, let’s take a look and see if they are any good."
Better than January yes, but some way off the highs that we've seen in the past. Not going to complain about free though and I'll obviously be picking up all the games included.
I'm excited to play Starwars again, don't know much about the other games though
I'm happy Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is part of it cause my friend and I wanted to play it.
