/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1953751
The tone and story was just completely off.
First two games had this sort of dry, witty humor interspersed with some real themes of fantasy adventure and danger. Curse softened it up a bit but the tone was still there. Fourth was directed by the Sam & Max team, and it shows. Everything happens seemingly at random as a service to a joke. Don't get me wrong though, I love Sam & Max, but I didn't feel like that brand of humor did service to Monkey Island. It turns Guybrush into a bumbling Homer Simpson figure, Ozzie Mandrill is little but a Conroy Bumpus clone, and Monkey Kombat might just be the most ill advised parody in adventure game history. God tier soundtrack though, some of Michael Land's best work.