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Great video. Just love this game, can’t count on two hands how often I’ve played through it over the years … Day of the Tentacle, Curse of Monkey Island and Toonstruck (the latter two arguably some of the last classic Point and Click adventure games with AAA budgets) are my all time favorite point‘n‘click games, a genre I adore to this day (best to forget about the 3D era of the early 2000s.) Regarding Toonstruck: Alas - even though the game still enjoys great review scores - so many people haven‘t heard of it as the publisher (Virgin Interactive!) did a terrible job at marketing the game back then, what already started with one of the ugliest game boxes ever created^^. But the title itself is an absolute gem: Christopher Lloyd from Back to the Future plays not too successful artist Drew Blanc who is getting sucked into his own cartoon world. Amazing humor, similar controls to CoMI, logical but not too easy puzzles all around, zany, gorgeous art style and great length. They even had most of a part 2 made already but as the game undeservedly didn‘t sell that well, alas that one has never seen the light of day. No idea if you still log into your RUclips account every now and then, as your last video was from 5 months ago but if you should stumble over this posting you definitely owe it to yourself to give Toonstruck a try - Especially as you liked Curse of Monkey Island. Of course I‘d recommend the game to any PnC-fan. Same as with Curse it‘s one of the final resurgences of the classic 90s adventure era heyday (Toonstruck released in 1996, CoMI in 1997) when big studios still invested in the genre (and before 3D crept into everything …)
Who else remembers the ten years of not being able to play this one between 2005-2015? So glad the world can enjoy the peak of and last great point and click adventure!
I played through this game several times over the years and it was only during my most recent playthrough (which was last week) that I figured out that Van Helgen is a reference to Van Halen. 😅
You can skip the naval battles by using Shift+V. Also, the cannon at the top of the list, is always 1 victory's worth of booty. The second is 2 victories and so on and so on. So you can either come back and get the very next update after each victory, or just stock up on booty until you have enough to buy the final cannon.
Curse has the bes OST on the series. By far. And, to me, is one of the best games: the atmosphere, the sound, the music, the whole feeling is wonderful. I still preffer MI2, though.
I know it'd be incredibly stupid to do and they never would, but it might be cool to have re-re-masters of the first two games with a pixel art style that's closer to games like Octopath Traveller or the unfortunately-named Triangle Strategy. That's what the first thing in that Ron Gilbert rubric sounds like.
It's a great game and I do prefer it to the first one personally, but claiming it's better than Monkey 2 was always going to be a controversial opinion. I'll always appreciate the fact that it managed to feel like a real Monkey without the original team behind, which was in and of itself a true miracle. I'm glad Ron is coming back, because I wouldn't trust anyone else to bring back Monkey at this point, I don't know if 3 was peak but it was certainly the swansong of the series.
@@LWT1331 yeah, the same people who played monkey 3 first when they were kids, and can't lose their nostalgia googles. It's a great game but the guy who made the video openly disliked Monkey 2, so we can't take his opinion too seriously.
@@sm4sh3d I love Monkey Islands 1 and 2, so much so that I even bought the PS3 versions, just because I wanted to play through them again and was curious how they control. And I also consider Curse to be the best of the series. So saying it's just nostalgia is not very fair, as if that was the case, Escape should be my favorite, as it was the first one I managed to beat.
@@sm4sh3d Right, but maybe most old time fans are wearing nostalgia googles, since 1 or 2 was their first MI. My point isn't that you are wrong in thinking 2 or 1 is the best, but rather that you are wrong to blame nostalgia, for the people who feel 3 is the best. I'm just saying your explanation can apply to both groups.
Someone who grew up in the time always has a different view.. For example,, i grew up in the Amiga days, and is always remains nostalgic to me over any games you make today..Yes their good, but i always find myself going back to the 1980's of Commodore 64/Amiga Compare that with games you make in the 90's or even music, the same rules apply... You'll always favor those than anything later.. even if the story is better.. because that was "your" idea, or you grew up in the moment,, so you'd rather stick to it like glue.. I can understand why Ron wanted Mi3 like that. The remake of Great Gianna Sisters is terrible .... Give me the original Amiga one anyday.. The music was also way better. (Maybe you'd like to know Telltale died off..) shortly after.. I still reckon 'Tales of Monkey Island' was too much of a budget-blow, that was the final nail for them.
Good Game, just not as good as Secret, Revenge or Return😏 Sorry but i cant take people like you seriously who use the word PEAK...its cringe and people need to stop using that word. Its just a buzzword😒
![Let's Play - [Windows] - The Curse of Monkey Island [1997] LucasArts (No commentary) - Part 5](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/kAX3zfcbyLA/mqdefault.jpg)
This is a gaming public service announcement. If you too want to experience or re-experience this gem of a game, it is free through Prime gaming during the month of May.
Great video. Just love this game, can’t count on two hands how often I’ve played through it over the years … Day of the Tentacle, Curse of Monkey Island and Toonstruck (the latter two arguably some of the last classic Point and Click adventure games with AAA budgets) are my all time favorite point‘n‘click games, a genre I adore to this day (best to forget about the 3D era of the early 2000s.)
Regarding Toonstruck: Alas - even though the game still enjoys great review scores - so many people haven‘t heard of it as the publisher (Virgin Interactive!) did a terrible job at marketing the game back then, what already started with one of the ugliest game boxes ever created^^. But the title itself is an absolute gem: Christopher Lloyd from Back to the Future plays not too successful artist Drew Blanc who is getting sucked into his own cartoon world. Amazing humor, similar controls to CoMI, logical but not too easy puzzles all around, zany, gorgeous art style and great length. They even had most of a part 2 made already but as the game undeservedly didn‘t sell that well, alas that one has never seen the light of day.
No idea if you still log into your RUclips account every now and then, as your last video was from 5 months ago but if you should stumble over this posting you definitely owe it to yourself to give Toonstruck a try - Especially as you liked Curse of Monkey Island. Of course I‘d recommend the game to any PnC-fan. Same as with Curse it‘s one of the final resurgences of the classic 90s adventure era heyday (Toonstruck released in 1996, CoMI in 1997) when big studios still invested in the genre (and before 3D crept into everything …)
for years I misheard the term "Moon Logic" thinking they said "Loom Logic" as in the Lucasarts game Loom. Made much more sense to me
Who else remembers the ten years of not being able to play this one between 2005-2015? So glad the world can enjoy the peak of and last great point and click adventure!
the ship combat is a homage to sid meier's pirates
luckily it doesn't last long.
I played through this game several times over the years and it was only during my most recent playthrough (which was last week) that I figured out that Van Helgen is a reference to Van Halen. 😅
Just found your channel. Keep up the great work! Liked and subbed!
Glad you're enjoying what you see so far! Definitely going to keep it up, plenty of stuff in the pipeline.
The ship combat sequence is a parody of Sid Meier's Pirates.
I think if you look at your ship's hold you can tell how much money you have for cannons
You can skip the naval battles by using Shift+V.
Also, the cannon at the top of the list, is always 1 victory's worth of booty.
The second is 2 victories and so on and so on.
So you can either come back and get the very next update after each victory, or just stock up on booty until you have enough to buy the final cannon.
>3-man barbershop quartet
Pirates turned barbers turned pirates turned barbers*
ALSO: vocabulary isn't a verb
Curse has the bes OST on the series. By far. And, to me, is one of the best games: the atmosphere, the sound, the music, the whole feeling is wonderful. I still preffer MI2, though.
I listen to Curse's OST all of the time while working, it brings me back 25 years!
I owned Mi2 on floppy disk on Amiga.... 11 in total.... i enjoyed swapping every one of them :P
I know it'd be incredibly stupid to do and they never would, but it might be cool to have re-re-masters of the first two games with a pixel art style that's closer to games like Octopath Traveller or the unfortunately-named Triangle Strategy.
That's what the first thing in that Ron Gilbert rubric sounds like.
It's a great game and I do prefer it to the first one personally, but claiming it's better than Monkey 2 was always going to be a controversial opinion. I'll always appreciate the fact that it managed to feel like a real Monkey without the original team behind, which was in and of itself a true miracle. I'm glad Ron is coming back, because I wouldn't trust anyone else to bring back Monkey at this point, I don't know if 3 was peak but it was certainly the swansong of the series.
There's nothing controversial about it. A lot of people rate 3 as the best one.
@@LWT1331 yeah, the same people who played monkey 3 first when they were kids, and can't lose their nostalgia googles. It's a great game but the guy who made the video openly disliked Monkey 2, so we can't take his opinion too seriously.
@@sm4sh3d I love Monkey Islands 1 and 2, so much so that I even bought the PS3 versions, just because I wanted to play through them again and was curious how they control.
And I also consider Curse to be the best of the series. So saying it's just nostalgia is not very fair, as if that was the case, Escape should be my favorite, as it was the first one I managed to beat.
@@feartheolivebread it's an opinion, most old time fans would disagree, for many reason.
@@sm4sh3d Right, but maybe most old time fans are wearing nostalgia googles, since 1 or 2 was their first MI.
My point isn't that you are wrong in thinking 2 or 1 is the best, but rather that you are wrong to blame nostalgia, for the people who feel 3 is the best.
I'm just saying your explanation can apply to both groups.
Someone who grew up in the time always has a different view..
For example,, i grew up in the Amiga days, and is always remains nostalgic to me over any games you make today..Yes their good, but i always find myself going back to the 1980's of Commodore 64/Amiga
Compare that with games you make in the 90's or even music, the same rules apply... You'll always favor those than anything later.. even if the story is better.. because that was "your" idea, or you grew up in the moment,, so you'd rather stick to it like glue..
I can understand why Ron wanted Mi3 like that. The remake of Great Gianna Sisters is terrible .... Give me the original Amiga one anyday.. The music was also way better.
(Maybe you'd like to know Telltale died off..) shortly after.. I still reckon 'Tales of Monkey Island' was too much of a budget-blow, that was the final nail for them.
Good breakdown.
Glad you enjoyed it! It's been quite an adventure going back and breaking down WHY I still remember these games so fondly from my childhood.
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I'll subscribe, but only when i can be the 69th sub
I'm going to hold you to that Mancomb Seepgood.
I really like curse but it's no mi2. The jokes just aren't as clever and it didn't even have the original writers.
So what?
@@LWT1331 Its a better game. Got anything to actually add?
Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge is FREE now on for Amazon Prime member 'til 05/02/2022. Hope that's of use to a fan.
Best game ever
is Monkey Island 2
@@SpiritRoot before this game came out.. then this game was best.
born on a march 23rd and 23rd subscriber.
Happy birthday 🎂
you are wrong.
It has been known to happen on a few occasions...
Good Game, just not as good as Secret, Revenge or Return😏
Sorry but i cant take people like you seriously who use the word PEAK...its cringe and people need to stop using that word. Its just a buzzword😒