Return to Monkey Island

- Contrary to many people, I liked the art direction in general. But i ABSOLUTELY hated the character(s) visualization in particular. All of them. - The gameplay was above average, not as funny as the originals, and also not as great, but well above passing mark. - The main reason I'm downvoting is that Ron Gilbert, brilliant game designer as he may be, cannot write a decent ending if his life depended on it. Thimbleweed Park's meta ending was passable, but here... no. Many of us wanted a conclusion of a decades old crappy ending, and we got... THIS? Just no.

I don't understand the ending, even though I played the game three times: twice in English (on Normal and Difficult modes) and once in French. I'm quite disappointed by the ending. I've played Monkey Island (my favorite) and MI 2 (didn't like it), but but I didn't really click with this one MI 3 Return to Monkey Island. The game is pretty good, but from the 3rd chapter, it becomes increasingly difficult, with illogical puzzles and tedious backtracking. The hint system is good and actually essential; otherwise, I would have stopped playing as early as the 4th chapter. As for the graphics, I would have preferred pixel art, but it still looks nice. The only ugly part is Guybrush's alcoholic face. That said, it's not really a "point-and-click" anymore, but rather a "spot-and-click"; it loses some of its charm, though it plays quite nicely with a gamepad or on the Steam Deck. Works perfectly on Steam Deck.

It is a very dated formula that I used to love. I thought I was still going to love, but I did not. A lot of walking back and forth, the solutions are very specific, and the story is not appealing. If you want to play an adventure game, stick to the old ones, like Broken Sword or The Dig.