The returning locales you visit will still look familiar, and sound familiar too. Stanman still has that silly non-moving checkered pattern on his jacket, which remains still while his hands are flopping around non-stop each time he flaps his mouth open. The returning characters retain their memorable charm. There are a few close-up shots zooming in to the hands and faces (you know, like the good old days) and you see all the grisly details of the subject up close- yeah the art style is not as clean and pristine as expected. Characters are as expressive as you’d hope a goofy pirate adventure to be.
Putting fan reactions aside, the art style looks great and is well executed.
So I really don’t understand the folks that are upset about this. So Return To Monkey Island going back to 2D with a cartoon-esque art style was not really a big shocker to me. The first two Monkey Island games even got remastered, with an option to play in a new, modern art style. Maybe because Return To Monkey Island is billed as a continuation of The Secret Of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge, and so there were expectations for it to have the same, “realistic” look that, because the tech wasn’t there yet in the early 90’s, look cartoony today in this age of photorealism graphics in games.īut think about it, the following games all have different art styles: The Curse Of Monkey Island has 2D hand-drawn look, Escape From Monkey Island went with blocky 3D art, and Tales Of Monkey Island (by Telltale Games with the involvement of Gilbert and Grossman) has their own interpretation of how the world and characters look. There was some unfounded vitriol thrown to the devs over the new look, the reaction I find to be weird. The big surprise of Return To Monkey Island is how surprising it was for fans to discover that the game features a new art style.
Return To Monkey Island successfully recaptures the magic of the classic point-and-click adventure games, delivering its own brand of witty humour to a new age that surely will get fans of the good old days all misty-eyed. With the help of publisher Devolver Digital and IP owners Lucasfilm Games.Īnd you know what, the journey they went on to develop this was worth it.
Return To Monkey Island has Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman, two of the developers of the first two Monkey Island games, to get a crew together comprising of old veterans and new talents (under Gilbert’s dev studio Terrible Toys) to make another vaguely pirate-themed adventure game. Seemingly out of nowhere, the world is blessed with another Monkey Island game.
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