Why i HATE Return to Monkey island - very disappointed...

Hello and welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing the brand new

Return to Monkey Island, and as an avid

fan of Monkey Island and point-and-click

adventure puzzle games in general, I just

knew I had to play this game.

Unfortunately, so far it's been kind of

disappointing and rather lacking in

luster. So I was born in 1989, which makes

me 33, and one of the first video games I

ever played when I was around 8 years old

was actually the original Monkey Island

games on PC. I played the original Monkey

Island, Secrets of Monkey Island, and

Monkey Island 2: Revenge of LeChuck, and

then obviously the third one, Curse of

Monkey Island. And ever since then, I

never played a Monkey Island game ever

again because I grew up, my interests

changed, and the recent Monkey Island

games from Telltale Games kind of sucked

and looked really bad. And since the

original Monkey Island games were my first

experience of ever playing a video game in

my entire life, since I was a kid. Before

Monkey Island, I didn't really have any

other gaming experience to compare the

games of Monkey Island to. I really liked

Monkey Island when I was a kid. I thought

it was really interesting, the story was

really cool, the artwork was amazing, and

it was just a magical game which really

made my childhood special. So I was pretty

excited to hear that the original creators

of Monkey Island were making a sequel to

Monkey Island and they were coming back to

finish the story. Unfortunately, after

playing this new Monkey Island game for a

while now, I don't really think it's very

good. And I think the main reason I don't

like this new rendition of Monkey Island

probably has to be the art style. I think

the most controversial thing amongst

Monkey Island fans and the Monkey Island

community has to be the weird direction

that the art style has gone in in this new

Monkey Island game. It actually looks

worse in almost every single way compared

to the original Monkey Islands. Even the

original Monkey Island with that really

low-res 8-bit kind of look And with that

really old-school looking 8-bit art style

that the originals had, the original

Monkey Island games had this really

charming and unique kind of atmosphere and

style to it that not a lot of games had at

the time. And I really do miss that kind

of style in video games. Even The Curse of

Monkey Island, which kind of moved on from

the 8-bit style, had a better art style

than this newest Monkey Island has. Curse

of Monkey Island had a different kind of

art style, but there was so much detail in

every scene. It really was a beautiful

looking game, but there's just something

really weird about the new art style in

this new Monkey Island. It doesn't look

great. I guess it looks kind of

interesting and unique in the way that you

don't really see this kind of art style in

many other games. I actually don't think

I've ever seen any other game that looks

like this, but that doesn't necessarily

mean that's a good thing. The characters

in this new Monkey Island game look weird

and very ugly. Even Guybrush Threepwood's

face looks kind of strange, the way he's

got that weird double chin. He looks

unshaven and he's got this really long

nose with a pink end on it which looks

like something else. And then he's got

these weird black beady eyes that looks

like he doesn't have any soul, like he's

not actually alive, like he's some kind of

weird mannequin. It just looks really

weird, really off-putting. I can't get

behind this art style. The strange thing

is this Monkey Island game just doesn't

really feel like a Monkey Island game.

You close your eyes, it sounds like one

because it's got the same kind of music,

it's got the old familiar jingles that you

would know from the original Monkey

Islands, and the same voice actor has come

back to play Guybrush, so it sounds like

Guybrush. So if you close your eyes and

just listen to it, it does feel like

you're playing Monkey Island. But then

when you open your eyes and you look at

the game, it doesn't really feel like it.

There's something strange about the way

the game feels and the atmosphere the game

has. Doesn't really remind me of how I

felt as a kid when I first played the

original Monkey Island. There's something

missing, and I don't really know what that

is. Maybe because so much time has passed

since then. It's been like 30 years. The

developers who made the game have changed

as people since so much time has passed,

and I've noticed the same thing happens to

me with my own art. If I don't draw

anything for a few years and then go back

to drawing, I notice that my art style

kind of changes even though I haven't done

anything. So for example, if I make a load

of art this year or this week and then I

take a 2-year break, when I go back to

drawing I notice that my art style has

completely changed or changed in a subtle

way and I didn't really do anything to

make that change and it's really hard to

go back to drawing how I used to draw and

I can't imagine how much my art style

would change if I didn't draw for 30 years

and then I just suddenly came back to it,

so I can kind of understand that they

couldn't really replicate what they had

for 30 years ago because of how much time

has passed, how the times have changed,

and it's just kind of impossible to go

back in time and recreate what they've

already made. So obviously they have to

take it in a new direction. It's just I

don't really like this new direction. I

also don't understand why they've decided

to make the game the way that it is. So

instead of having a fresh new story, it

just seems like this entire game is just

making you play the same scenes and the

same levels that was in the original

Monkey Island games. For example, this

scene right now. Is in the kitchen that's

at the back of the Scumbar, and it's just

the same melee islands, the same locations

that you remember from the original games,

and it just feels like they're making you

replay the original games but kind of in

this flashback kind of way, like you're

having a dream and you're replaying some

of the places you've been to. And some of

the puzzles are even similar to what they

used to be in the original games, but

they've added a bunch of new puzzles. And

the whole idea is now Guybrush is older

and he's got a kid and he's telling the

kid the story of Monkey Island, and then

you're playing as Guybrush as he tells the

story or retells the story, and it just

seems kind of pointless. I don't want to

play all of these same levels again, even

if it is slightly different. I want a

completely brand new fresh gameplay

experience, but this gameplay doesn't

really provide that, and it just seems

like they're trying to do a

nostalgia-packed fan service for All of us

old people now, I guess we're all in our

30s, we're in our 40s now. All of us old

people who played this game as a kid,

this is just like fan service for us, but

it's not really selling it for me

personally. If I really wanted to replay

all of the stuff that was in the original

Monkey Island, I would just play the

original Monkey Island and enjoy the old

style, old school kind of arts it had

instead of this new weird-looking art

style. I also don't like it how they keep

breaking the fourth wall. It kind of ruins

any kind of immersion or believability

that this story is real. It just seems

like this whole pirate reality is a dream

that Guybrush is having. It doesn't feel

like his natural real thing that you can

get behind and feel emotionally invested

in. Also, the gameplay is extremely

boring. It's what you expect from a

point-and-click adventure puzzle game.

You just click on stuff and then you read

dialogue and then you watch the cutscenes.

There's not really any action. The puzzles

are pretty basic and pretty easy to solve,

and obviously that's what you should

expect from a game like this. And Yeah,

sure, as a kid this kind of game was

amazing because I had nothing else to

compare it to. But after 3 decades of

video gameplay and video gaming that I've

done throughout my life and all of the

different amazing games that I've played

up until now, this kind of gameplay just

doesn't really cut it anymore. It's just

not really interesting. It's like you're

just watching this cartoon. It just feels

like if I really cared about the story and

wanted to experience the story, I could

easily just watch a YouTube playthrough

and experience experience the game that

way, and then I don't have to bother doing

the puzzles myself because someone else is

doing it. And I don't even feel like you

would miss out that much by experiencing

the game that way. And that kind of means

that it's failed as a video game. And for

those reasons, I don't really feel like I

could recommend this game, even as someone

who loved the original Monkey Island

games. And those games are always going to

be precious to me and a treasured memory.

This video game of Monkey Island, the

newest one, is just not really hitting

the spot for me, so I'd have to give it a

4.2 out of 10. Can't really recommend.