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Dec. 16th, 2009 11:05 pmLet it be known that Tales of Monkey Island is crack.
Sure, the quality of the writing varies (some side characters are just cheap clichés with no depth whatsoever) and it doesn't quite reach the overall brilliance of the first three games (say whatever you will about Curse. I loved it and consider it no worse than the original two), but it gives me the fix Escape just didn't quite manage to. I'm not sure how canon all of it is going to be if there's ever going to be an "actual" "Monkey Island 5", but Tales has done away with much of what made Escape feel wrong. Much like Tekken 5 took a few step back and then sideways from Tekken 4 and came out better than its predecessor.
That was my spontaneus game review. I'm gonna go play some more now.
Sure, the quality of the writing varies (some side characters are just cheap clichés with no depth whatsoever) and it doesn't quite reach the overall brilliance of the first three games (say whatever you will about Curse. I loved it and consider it no worse than the original two), but it gives me the fix Escape just didn't quite manage to. I'm not sure how canon all of it is going to be if there's ever going to be an "actual" "Monkey Island 5", but Tales has done away with much of what made Escape feel wrong. Much like Tekken 5 took a few step back and then sideways from Tekken 4 and came out better than its predecessor.
That was my spontaneus game review. I'm gonna go play some more now.
