Re-mastered music score presented in full orchestrated detail.All new re-imagined contemporary art style, hand-drawn to feature animation quality.Along the way, confront the evil ghost pirate, LeChuck.Win the heart of the beautiful governor, Elaine Marley.
Go on a daring adventure in your attempt to become the most infamous pirate in the Caribbean. Relive the swashbuckling humorous misadventures of the wannabe pirate Guybrush Threepwood If clever enough, he will win the confidence of Mêlée's pirates and find himself blown by the winds of fate toward the terrifying and legendary Monkey Island - an adventure that would chill the bones of even the most bloodthirsty buccaneer. Tales of pirate wealth lure him to the port of Mêlée with high hopes, no money, and insatiable curiosity. The game's twisty plot leads our naive hero on a hilarious, swash-buckling search for the fabled secret of Monkey Island. Purists will also delight in the ability to seamlessly switch between the updated hand-drawn re-imagining and the original classic version. The development team at LucasArts is bringing the game into the modern era with an all new re-imagined contemporary art style, a re-mastered musical score, full voiceover, and an in-depth hint system to help players through the game’s side-splitting puzzles. It’s a great origin story for Guybrush, and makes for a wonderful gateway game for new players into the point-and-click adventure game genre.Back by popular demand, The Secret of Monkey Island™: Special Edition faithfully re-imagines the internationally-acclaimed classic game (originally released in 1990) for original and new audiences alike. While I do feel the game is short in itself, it nonetheless covers just about everything it sets out to do and leaves the player wanting more. I was able to finish it in about four and half hours, and others may have even finished the game even earlier if they knew right away what they were looking for. To put it simply, The Secret of Monkey Island is not a very long game. It certainly won’t be the case if you’re a brand-new player and have no reference or guide to help you along to finishing the three trials. To be fair, although it doesn’t sound like a lot to do for players, the developers managed to stretch out these plot points so that you wouldn’t finish each section right away. This also means that the story itself isn’t very long once you complete all three trials, all that’s left for you is to create a crew, purchase a ship, sail to Monkey Island, and rescue the Governor. The locations you explore on both islands are not very large, and there’s only so much you can do at each location to help move you along. Humor aside, this game does have a great sense of adventure if not scale. Even he isn’t an exception to the established humor of the game, with him giving some of the best comebacks and pieces of dialogue in the game’s climax. 
The exception to this is the Ghost Pirate LeChuck, who is an antagonist other pirates in the game have right to fear. They’re almost pirates and threats in name only rather than any real threat. Throughout the game on both Melee and Monkey Islands, the inhabitants you come across can be described as quirky as best, and incompetent at worst. That’s not to say these characters are more skilled than Guybrush is. This makes interactions with certain key characters, such as the Governor, all the more amusing as you can dictate how he responds, with Guybrush still appearing inauspicious compared to everyone else. There’s not any real reason why he desires to be a pirate, other than him saying that it’s because it’s something he wants. I like the idea that Guybrush starts out as a kind of blank slate, with no one really knowing who he is or where he came from. Guybrush is well-meaning but inexperienced, and it becomes clear that many of the characters he meets think little of him and certainly don’t respect him. This game is not afraid to not take itself seriously. What really helped The Secret of Monkey Island stand out is its unabashed humor.
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