Stumped by it's Shortness / Review
After realising Monkey Island had made a comeback- I instantly purchased it through Telltale, and was playing within 30mins.
Yet. I completed the first chapter in 1hr and 30mins, and I didn't use any Hint Sites/Threads, all on my own. So, 2hrs of Monkey Island (including installation). I remember spending tops 3hrs on Act 1 of Escape.
Now, if I look back at ANY other Monkey Islands, although the first acts/chapters were always much shorter than the ones that followed, I must say that this 'Launch of the Screaming Narwhal' is exceptionally short.
I don't think it's because the puzzles are 'too' easy, as some of them did require me to think, but even with bits like the easy 'Club 41' (which someone in another thread picked up on) and De Sange's (sorry if I've spelt it wrong, I didn't pay much attention to the spelling
) (I'm trying not to give away spoilers) to bulk it up, it still felt short.
The dialog also felt a bit dead for the majority of parts on Flotsam, however I thought the introduction with LeChuck was fantastic!!
I believe that the dialog in Monkey Island games (mostly when you just keep talking to them for witty remarks
) always tends to extend it's play time, but on Flotsam it seemed short and repetitve.
However, I do think it was fun- and I love Telltale for remaking probabbly my favourite game of all time, but pleaaase;
Make further Chapters longer!
It seems to be a recurring thing with Telltale, as I've just completed my Free Sam & Max: Culture Shock within an hour. I wasn't impressed with that at all really (the game in it's entirity), but that's for another thread
Anyone else think this?
Yet. I completed the first chapter in 1hr and 30mins, and I didn't use any Hint Sites/Threads, all on my own. So, 2hrs of Monkey Island (including installation). I remember spending tops 3hrs on Act 1 of Escape.
Now, if I look back at ANY other Monkey Islands, although the first acts/chapters were always much shorter than the ones that followed, I must say that this 'Launch of the Screaming Narwhal' is exceptionally short.
I don't think it's because the puzzles are 'too' easy, as some of them did require me to think, but even with bits like the easy 'Club 41' (which someone in another thread picked up on) and De Sange's (sorry if I've spelt it wrong, I didn't pay much attention to the spelling
) (I'm trying not to give away spoilers) to bulk it up, it still felt short.The dialog also felt a bit dead for the majority of parts on Flotsam, however I thought the introduction with LeChuck was fantastic!!
I believe that the dialog in Monkey Island games (mostly when you just keep talking to them for witty remarks
) always tends to extend it's play time, but on Flotsam it seemed short and repetitve.However, I do think it was fun- and I love Telltale for remaking probabbly my favourite game of all time, but pleaaase;
Make further Chapters longer!
It seems to be a recurring thing with Telltale, as I've just completed my Free Sam & Max: Culture Shock within an hour. I wasn't impressed with that at all really (the game in it's entirity), but that's for another thread
Anyone else think this?
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However, the jungle puzzle isn't aimless, you've just gotta figure out the secret
Well you completed the episode really fast, most people here completed it in around 3 hours or more. Playtime of course depends also how much dialogue you listen etc. Episode 1 was kinda short but if you combine the 5 episodes it should give atleast 20 hours for most people. Monkey Island Se releases tomorrow so its kinda funny to see how long it takes to finish, I haven't played that after the initial release so I don't remember that much about the puzzles either (I think).
Good games allways seem to short anyway.
I certainly wouldn't recommend judging all of Sam and Max from any of the first 3 episodes.
I guess I may just be used to the style of MI puzzle too well
Escape had only 3 acts, Tales has 5 episodes.
Also, this episode is longer than any Curse of Monkey island chapters (which are 5 in total)
Hopefully that'll be the layout for the future chapters.
Things tend to ramp up story and difficulty wise as the season progresses.
Also, to the person who said they hated 'wandering around aimlesly' in the jungle... you were obviously doing it wrong. It was clear where you had to go and what you had to do.
It's like my religion. Honestly.
I'm just saying I found it quite short.
It took me about 90 minutes to beat the game for the third time! The first was more like 4 and a half hours because I wanted to do as much as possible!
Exactly, for me at least, Monkey Island is about seeing everything, talking to everyone, not just about solving the puzzles and finishing the game.
I don't just like completing the puzzles either. I made sure to get all the dialog out I could
I even turned the 'Hint Frequency' down to zero to make it harder for myself.
From some others comments, I think I just found this chapter too easy- and will probably find later ones harder
I took a bit longer than you did on 1 and 2 as well, but I understand ya
I have no idea how anybody could finish this within 90 minutes. If you want to, you can stretch it as as far as beyond the 5 hours mark without being obsessed about it, even if you're the kind of guy that finished Grim Fandango back in its day within three days during the Christmas holidays. Tested, ay.
Not claiming it couldn't happen, hey.
They're episodic content. BY FREAKING NATURE they are supposed to be short. It took me two days beacuse I wanted to enjoy it, considering it took me about 2 hours to download it. IF you don't like episodic games, THEN DON'T PLAY THEM! And I don't consider it easy. It was a well balanced game. FRICK, if you don't want to be disappointed, savor the episodes!
Completing it in an hour and 30 minutes? What the hell? How can somebody even DO that, without being some hyper-focused puzzle machine that doesn't stop to smell the roses now and again?
I think Chapter 1 was long enough though. Completely satisfied with it. 4 more chapters to play. More than enough
This game took me 9 hours to complete. How the freaking heck are you people getting through it so quickly? I was talking to a friend who was like, it took me three hours and I did everything. And my mouth dropped. I just do not get how you people finished this so quickly without a walkthrough. I went back and played it after I knew what to do and it took me four hours the second time. :eek:
Seriously. HOW?
We could have cool leather jackets with a logo on it! Something like "The Slow Club" or "Those Who Actually Enjoy Adventure Games" or maybe even "Obsessed MI Fans Inc."
I will not play it again until the whole game is released since i pretty much enjoyed it. Never finish a game fast, cuzz then the enjoyment of playing will pass out fast. Its better doing it at a long pace, than having a quickie, if u know what i mean.
I thought I completed the game reasonably fast too, I stumbled upon a few puzzles instantly getting them right figured out a few and was stumped for a bit on a few but I never really felt like I was too stuck.
That stupid flower pot nose really got me though, I was like "well that was stupid".
But I am with you guys who took their sweet time beating this, I loved the chapter and can't wait for #2!!
They're well-done, but they seemed a lot shorter/easier than the ones that followed. And I guess the TV studio thing didn't appeal to me that much, although
The game itself was too short. More "screens" (like they said back then) would have been nice - simply more to do.
Kinda sounds like "powerleveling" of mmorpg's what you do, topicstarter.
@Corv: well, his "walkthrough" is just him recording what he does when he found a step of progress.
If you look at my playlist though; http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?pi=1&ps=20&sf=&sa=0&sq=&dm=0&p=35EFCDC57E261B6E
It's slightly longer than just the correct steps obviously.
I actually don't believe you.
Even the Video Walkthroug is almost exaclty 2 hours long!!:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3BEAB286A45A6C89
Yes it's no speedrun, he did not interupt the talking and on some puzzles he briefly messed up, but still it's a straight run through.
So to do it in 1:30 the FIRST time through you must have skipped at least most of the dialogue. Even then I don't believe that you did it in 1:30.
So now that we have established that your 1:30 are nonsense
Same for me. Took me two days. And I played through most of it again to get some more of the jokes. If Monkey Island is just played to complete it, you will miss too many jokes. And like this it seems it can be played to find those hidden jokes first. Even if it only takes 1,5 hours per episode, then its still a 7,5 hour game, but I expect at least one of the next episodes will take 2 hours or more.
Anyway, I think that it's impossible to play it in 1:30.
I'm replaying just now and I lost 1 hour only for the intro and the presentations at floatsam island (because I wanted to find all possible dialogs).
strange. i really like that part because it was very reminiscent of monkey 1 and it made you feel like you're actually on a treasure hunt. how the tastes differ... always amazes me
But in terms of playing time, too. Same goes for the number of puzzles to solve and tasks to finish. Furthermore, I'd even argue that Largo's puzzles overall aren't any harder at all. There's two standouts that probably wouldn't have made it into Telltale's game. Please don't read any further if you've got still to play Monkey 2: getting a piece of Largo's clothes and getting some pieces o' eith to pay Cpt. Dread. Those are arguably more complex than anything ToMI Episode1, but other than that, I dunno.
I remember being pretty stumped on that Largo puzzle in particular as a kid.
Depends where Telltale are going from here on, but this could still become quite an entertaining and challenging tour de monkey for seasoned MI players and newcomers alike. Personally I was being stuck on Episode1 twice as is, but psssssht!