Return To Monkey Island - MI2 sequel from Ron Gilbert

[Keshik]

Well, the attempts at humour in the prologue sucked - the adults blah blah'ing was out of Family Guy, heh. The way they handled MI2's ending could have been worse as well I suppose

 

[Boleskine]

I found a retro fascist.

 

[ADULF HITLOR FAN KLUB]

I just bought this heaping pile of shit and I'm going in soon bros. Let us see how long I last until I am forced to leave a negative review...

I am truly curious as to what that closeted, leftoid fat ass has in store for me.

 

[Jermu]

Finished it, took around 8-10 hours. Puzzles chapter 1-3 and 5 were very easy but in chapter 4 some puzzles took some time since you had a large area to explore. I smirked couple of times but writing / puzzles were nothing special. 6/10

Regarding ending:

Ending

Monkey Island 2 ending is canon and it was exactly the same ending in this game. So yeah open ended ending and you still dont know what the secret of monkey island was unless it was this fucking t-shirt / theme park

 

[Sordid MCA/Prosper Hybryd]

I've played one hour. It's... alright, I guess. A bit boring, but I plan to keep playing. And no, the game is ugly, but still not as ugly as Special Editions. Not that it's a greater accomplishment, of course.

 

[ADULF HITLOR FAN KLUB]

And no, the game is ugly, but still not as ugly as Special Editions.

The special editions look like masterpieces in comparison to this garbled shit.

RTMI is probably the ugliest game I have ever played.

 

[El Presidente]

And no, the game is ugly, but still not as ugly as Special Editions.

The special editions look like masterpieces in comparison to this garbled shit.

RTMI is probably the ugliest game I have ever played.

The art style is shit but there's no way that honor will be stolen from Chaos Overlords any time soon

 

[ADULF HITLOR FAN KLUB]

I thought this was interesting:

Spoiler

Melee Island is run down and just going to shit.

The governor is now black. The pirate council is now made up of one Haitian, one psycho dyke and one Karen. Most of the inhabitants you run into are now black.

Ron doesn't seem to realize what he subconsciously recreated.

 

[Mary Sue Leigh]

What's going on there on Scurvy Island, are those supposed to be wind turbines or trees?

And wow, Morgan Le Flay, a character I assume was specifically designed to annoy people and yet I had already forgotten about her. The tell tale games weren't offensively bad in my opinion but they were extremely forgettable.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Don't fucking play this you fucking retards.

getting call of duty boycott flashbacks

 

[Great Deceiver]

Just about the only positive things I have to say about this game are that it runs well with no loadtimes and seems stable, and the music system is dynamic and is clearly inspired by iMUSE.

It's not aggressively bad, just aggressively average. The dialogue is really bland, puzzles are weak and the art is terrible.

 

[Antigoon]

It's not aggressively bad, just aggressively average. The dialogue is really bland, puzzles are weak and the art is terrible.

So like pretty much every other walking sim. (minus the art sometimes)

 

[Falksi]

I hope you slags playing it have all pirated it. Fuck paying any money for this shite.

 

[Daedalos]

So aside from the shitty artstyle that has been subject to nerdrage for a full year now, how is the game? is it fun? writing? puzzles?

I'm considering getting this.. but eh. I dunno. I do love Monkey Island and much of my childhood was spent playing this franchise.
I am setting myself up to be disappointed, so the bar is already pretty low going in.

 

[Ludwig von Eisenthal]

Sheer masochistic curisority brought me to the point of trying to download this piece of crap from one of the usual harbours but damn it, I can't find a download where I'm not bombarded by virus messages from my fucking virus scanner. Now, reasonably judged: this shitty excuse for a game sure isn't worth going through any trouble whatsoever so I just leave it out and forget about it. It would probably have assraped my fondest memories anyway. It was a bad idea from the beginning to try to get this atrocity on my hd so fuck it.

 

[ADULF HITLOR FAN KLUB]

I have played for almost two hours and decided that I am going to refund this trash.

The atrocious art style is making my eyes bleed and the gameplay is pretty meh. The dialogue and puzzles are severely lacking the charm and wittiness of earlier installments, and otherwise all I have really been doing during my playtime is revisiting locales and talking to characters that we already know. From what I have seen, RTMI is more of a reimagining of Monkey Island, than a new game.

Further, why start on Melee Island? Is Ron that creatively bankrupt? This is what the developers did in Escape to Monkey Island and that probably wasn't a good idea either.

All said, I don't really feel like playing anymore, so I doubt that I will pirate it either. I have better things to do and actually entertaining games to play. Just this: Ron is a has been. Who knows what kind of creative magic he conjured while creating Monkey Island, but rest assured, it is all gone. Don't expect him to ever make anything good ever again.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

I will wait to play the remake.

 

[Red Hexapus]

I will wait to play the remake demake.

FTFY

 

[negator2vc]

I wonder how many people refunded the game after witnessing that intro act?
And how many are going to break their equipment after witnessing the so called ending!!!????
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This is the only time I was really glad for the existence of usefull masochists that post game walkthroughs
on youtube!

 

[Darkozric]

"Story, art, puzzles, dialogue are bad but the game is not aggressively bad". RPGcodex 2022
what does "aggressively bad" mean? The game won't run at all? Jesus wept...

Also those who expected puzzles from this are completely delusional. You need to throw a few punches in your faces to come to your senses.

 

[Antigoon]

I wonder how many people refunded the game after witnessing that intro act?

Not many according to the Steam reviews. Now at 96%, 560 reviews. Pretty sure reviews would still show even after refunding.

 

[Darkozric]

I wonder how many people refunded the game after witnessing that intro act?
And how many are going to break their equipment after witnessing the so called ending!!!????
Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah
Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah
Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah

This is the only time I was really glad for the existence of usefull masochists that post game walkthroughs
on youtube!

I've told you that it'll be the adventure of the year. But you didn't want to believe it. Next time you should take me more seriously.

If the press, fanboys and YTubers want this to be the AOTY, it will be, no matter what you think.

 

[Brancaleone]

I have played for almost two hours and decided that I am going to refund this trash.

The atrocious art style is making my eyes bleed and the gameplay is pretty meh. The dialogue and puzzles are severely lacking the charm and wittiness of earlier installments, and otherwise all I have really been doing during my playtime is revisiting locales and talking to characters that we already know. From what I have seen, RTMI is more of a reimagining of Monkey Island, than a new game.

Further, why start on Melee Island? Is Ron that creatively bankrupt? This is what the developers did in Escape to Monkey Island and that probably wasn't a good idea either.

All said, I don't really feel like playing anymore, so I doubt that I will pirate it either. I have better things to do and actually entertaining games to play. Just this: Ron is a has been. Who knows what kind of creative magic he conjured while creating Monkey Island, but rest assured, it is all gone. Don't expect him to ever make anything good ever again.

I am getting the feeling that RTMI is the first experiment in games with writing and 'jokes' being entirely AI-made.

 

[Darkozric]

I am getting the feeling that RTMI is the first experiment in games with writing and 'jokes' being entirely AI-made.

I'm getting the feeling that at this poit AI could do a better job on writing and jokes. If AI could design puzzles that would be a clear incline.

 

[Fowyr]

The art style is shit but there's no way that honor will be stolen from Chaos Overlords any time soon

Just leave the Chaos Overlords alone! I have a soft spot for them, and crappy portraits of your cyberpunk gangsters added to its charm.