The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
Thu, August 20th 2009 at 08:49pm
I do not want to get into Game Reviews just because I do not play enough to have a comparison benchmark, and because there are tons of game reviewers already. With that said though I just had to atleast post about The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition. This is not even really a review, because there is no way I can be objective about this game. It really is the thing that got me into computers as a kid, and has always been one of my favorite game series.
This is going to date myself, but I used to play this game on my Amiga 1200 in the good old days. Secret was the first game I played that was actually funny, all the other games were more puzzle, action and the more classic style of games. But the best thing I can say about this game is that even after twenty years the jokes, characters and game play hold up perfectly. And that is a good thing because the Special Edition changes none of these things, it is a complete rework of the graphics, art, music, voice acting (instead of text) and controls on different platforms.
Old Version
The above screen cap is what I saw twenty odd years ago when playing on my Amiga 1200. Back then this was great stuff, and to be honest I would still play it today even if the graphics were not updated. I even bought the released version a few years back on the PC.
Now below you have the new Special Edition! This small screen shot does not do it justice, I played it at 1920×1280 and it is really great looking.
New Version
On top of the great graphics, the sound and music are all redone and really add a new dimension to the game.
The thing that I love the most about the Special Edition is that you can feel the love that the developers put into this. They are only charging ten dollars and yet the production value they put into this is staggering. I never felt like a corner was cut to save time or money, and that they tried to be as faithful to the original as possible.
If you have never played this game, or any point and click adventure now is the perfect time to try one. This is the father of all point and click adventure games, and should be experienced by everyone. For $10 how can you go wrong!
