The graphical remix is charming, but the way there's an elegant zoom from that update to the original with a single button press was joy enough to make me drag in delightful fiancée for her to gape at it. What do I recall now? What would I make of it?Īnd the Special Editions. However I also thought "that's fifteen years ago". Realising you forgot to pick up an item on the other side of the island, demanding another long rambling trip made it not particularly fun. Half-remembering the solutions to problems proved more frustrating than simply not knowing them. Even then, I wasn't the sort who'd replayed games often - but even trying to replay Monkey Island 2 (when I eventually got a hard-drive) frustrated me. I also remember something awkward about it, even at the time. I liked it so much at the time that I played all (I think) eleven discs of it with a single-disc drive, swapping it as required and dealing with hilariously slow-frame-rates when it tried to load things. So I'm got enormous levels of nostalgia for Monkey Island 2. It is the last of the Lucasarts classics that got exposure in the UK in such a way.) When the graphic adventure was at its heights, when it was clearly pushing the edges of gaming. So for anyone who didn't immediately jump from the Amiga to the PC in the UK - as in, anyone who didn't have a grand to blow on a PC - it was the last one they got. After that, no-one bothered bringing them across. How can I say that when everything from Day of the Tentacle to Grim Fandango to The Longest Journey came years afterwards? Well, for the obvious reason - it was the last of the great adventures which appeared on the Amiga. Possibly the last great classic adventure they ever played. well, I'll go out on a limb here and say that, for a sub-section of our readership, it'll be their favourite adventure game of all time. The second special edition complete re-mastering of the Monkey Island games came out last week, and I thought since we're not going to be Wot I Thinking it, it'd be worth having a quick look at and seeing how seaworthy this once-flagship of the genre is with its new lick of paint.
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