Tales of Monkey Island Complete Pack: Chapter 2 - The Siege of Spinner Cay

Official Monkey Island Ranking List: 1. MI3 2. MI4 3. MI2 4. MI1 5. Tales of MI 6. MI5

Okay they still have Winslow in this one I think

This episode feels like filler that gets even less funny than the first. Sometimes hard to see their other games in comparison to this hunk of junk.

Tales of Monkey Island - это пятая часть в серии Monkey Island, с которой я и познакомился с серией в далёком 2008-м. Именно Tales of влюбила меня в эту серию, её непутёвых героев и порой абсурдные загадки. Возможно, свой вклад внесли вайбы по "Бешеному Джеку Пирату". И хоть в итоге я стал усреднённым фанатом серии который ставит первые две части выше всех остальных - но пятёрка занимает особое место в моём сердце. Сравнивая с другими частями, что выделяет конкретно эту - это её сюжет: местами жёсткий, местами он деконструирует сюжеты предыдущих частей. В остальном - вполне ГОСТовский квест. Порой даже жаль, что после этого Теллтейл ударились в интерактивное кинцо с минимумом загадок. Второй эпизод - весьма забавный, ломает ожидания и создаёт интересный конфликт интересов. Загадки не особо сложные - но поработать умом приходится.

This is a review for all five chapters of the game Tales of Monkey Island, which is a 3D point & click adventure in the very long Monkey Island series (Secret of Monkey Island was the first PC game that I ever played, 35 years ago). The voice acting, the 3D graphics, the visual and spoken humour, and the sheer imagination of the developers, are all superb and very enjoyable. I quickly found myself back in the familiar and happy/silly/pirate-y waters of the Caribbean with Guybrush, Elaine, LeChuck, and others. But I have some reservations about the plot and associated puzzles. For the first couple of chapters I managed to work out nearly all of the puzzles myself, but in later chapters, as the puzzles became more involved but less intuitive (in my view), I increasingly struggled to progress without the use of a guide. One other frustration was the amount of tedious walking/running in the 3D world e.g. around the towns, around the woods, and - especially - around the underworld in the final chapter to move between portals/rips; better map shortcuts would have been very welcome. My play time across the five chapters was more than 23 hours for a total cost of UK £2.27, so, even allowing for the delays caused by the more obscure puzzles etc, I have no complaints about value for money. In summary, I had a very good time with the game, though some parts of its plot, puzzles and movement mechanics could have been tightened and improved. Farewell (until next time), Mighty Pirate!

Good Adventure game, can be played mouse only