I'm worried about Chapter 5...
(Warning: Spoilers for Monkey Island 1-4 and minor spoilers for Tales ahead)
So far, I really love Tales of Monkey Island. Every chapter has been better then the last one, yet I'm worried about Rise of the Pirate God. My reason for this is that, IMO, each of the other four Monkey Island games had an ending that was really bad, either gameplaywise or storywise or both. Secret had some really funny dialogue in the last chapter, but the battle against LeChuck was way too easy. Though Revenge had a pretty good puzzle with creating the Voodoo doll, it really screwed up the story, which luckily got retconned in Curse. Curse has a pretty neat puzzle were you have to make the hangover remedy, but then suddenly cuts to Guybrush on the rollercoaster (it really feels a puzzle or cutscene is missing here), and another poor and easy final battle, with a really short cutscene following it. And in Escape, as if Monkey Kombat wasn't bad enough, it had illogical Monkey Kombat between the Giant Monkey Head and brainwashed LeChuck.
Anyway, I hope I'm wrong about this, and that Tales will break this pattern.
So far, I really love Tales of Monkey Island. Every chapter has been better then the last one, yet I'm worried about Rise of the Pirate God. My reason for this is that, IMO, each of the other four Monkey Island games had an ending that was really bad, either gameplaywise or storywise or both. Secret had some really funny dialogue in the last chapter, but the battle against LeChuck was way too easy. Though Revenge had a pretty good puzzle with creating the Voodoo doll, it really screwed up the story, which luckily got retconned in Curse. Curse has a pretty neat puzzle were you have to make the hangover remedy, but then suddenly cuts to Guybrush on the rollercoaster (it really feels a puzzle or cutscene is missing here), and another poor and easy final battle, with a really short cutscene following it. And in Escape, as if Monkey Kombat wasn't bad enough, it had illogical Monkey Kombat between the Giant Monkey Head and brainwashed LeChuck.
Anyway, I hope I'm wrong about this, and that Tales will break this pattern.
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Both Sam and Max seasons had great endings; I wouldn't worry about it.
http://www.worldofmi.com/features/trivia/trivia.php?game=MI3&s=1
Obviously, hence why the entire rant-thingie is my opinion.
I liked the ending for MI1; it was a nice end to the story. I didn't feel like I had to spend 12 hours in a darkened room with my eyes bleeding from stress at not getting how to finish the game for it to end well.
MI3, I can see what you mean. MI4 didn't exist, are you feeling well dear?
I think TTG are quite good with endings, and they've set themselves up well.
i did not know that. now that explains the whole last scene.
TTG have shown themselves to be pretty bright people overall. The already shown they can do better. Observe the intro fight puzzle with Morgan in episode 2. That is some good game design right there. It feels dynamic and there are no stupid timers.
I never had any more trouble with Monkey Kombat than I did with Insult Swordfighting. In fact, I probably had even less trouble with it, because it forced me to make a spreadsheet to keep track of what I knew, where Insult Swordfighting made me either print off a list of insults and comebacks and cross off which ones I had (which I didn't do) or try not only to remember which insults and comebacks I had, but also to remember if I was remembering having them currently or in a previous play-through.
But that's all beside my point.
I don't see what's so illogical about the final battle (other than that the combatants were a monkey robot whose head looked nothing like the Giant Monkey Head and a statue possessed by LeChuck). It was already established that the language of the Ultimate Insult was the primal language, monkey jabber, so it makes sense that Monkey Kombat would be the Ultimate Insult version of Insult Swordfighting, and we'd already learned in the jungles that when you tie, the monkeys will get frustrated and beat on their own head. To me, the logic behind it seems as good as any other puzzle.
But then, while Escape isn't exactly my favorite Monkey Island, I don't despise it as much as most people do.
Objection!
But wouldn't happen :mad:
I'm still hoping we'll get to Monkey Island at some point, we always do
Objection What?!
Objection, Your Honor...? :rolleyes:
Objection overruled.
Please continue...
Unless you count the inevitable Monkey Island 201 as Chapter 6. What's New Beelzebub? is, after all, Episode 11 of Sam & Max.
Praise be to the Pirate God if this happens