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Tales of a Monkey Island is a fun and wild adventure, but is it really as good as the previous Monkey Island games the developer TellTale Games have made? Well, than lets set sail and see if we can find something that should be lost in the ocean, or a treasure that people will love for the future to come.

Tales of Monkey Island is an adventure game that has both easy and hard puzzles for you to solve. That is pretty much most of the game-play of the game itself, you find a item in the environment, bring it back to the person you have met or mix it with other items to create  more. You can also examine the items, and find more hidden clues and combine a lot of the items into special items so that you can get to the next part of the story. Overall, it’s pretty simple with some puzzles that will leave you head scratching and thinking what to do next. The Tales of Monkey Island game also has a way of doing these puzzles and really shows how to make puzzles in an adventure game.

Today games which include puzzles in with an adventure style are pretty easy nowadays but, with The Tales of Monkey Island a lot of the puzzles are fun, funny, and hard.(Give or take if the puzzles are on hard mode or not)  TellTale games have also made a nice little help feature so that the player does not get stuck on one puzzle for to long and more or less give up on the games. That is pretty much the game-play part of The Tales of Monkey Island overall and here are the small issues that the game is plagued by. These issues are very small and should not be much of a problem for players; the controls in The Tales of Monkey are not easy to master because sometimes you have to play with it to make GuyBrush in the right area with the mouse and sometimes it doesn’t respond to that direction. One other problem would be that the camera will be your enemy a lot and sometimes you might click on the wrong item and have to listen to a dialogue from GuyBrush because the camera is in the wrong place and this can bring the fun down a little. It can be really annoying when you have to click 50 times when you want to use or pickup an object, the camera keeps moving in a fix location. Other then these two problems the game works fine, plays well, and is really a fun adventure game that will take you on many different locations and stories.

Now with the story part of the game. The Tales of Monkey Island is a five chapter game that breaks the download into 5 different downloads for you and each continue  where the story left off. The Tales of Monkey Island follow a treasure hunter called GuyBrush Treepwood and you follow him from ship to ship, town to town, and afterlife to back to life. Each story will take you about 3 hrs to complete and each story is different and unique with locations, plot, puzzles and more. Overall, there is not much to tell about the story because it’s pretty good and i don’t want to spoil anything for any fans of the Monkey Island series.

On the final note, The Tales of Monkey Island is fun, interactive, and a puzzling adventure with laughs and puzzles during your trip. Tales of Monkey Island will go down as a classic adventure puzzle game that will bring back memories of playing the old Monkey Island games and it was a blast to play it.

The Monkey Island series was  made up by TellTale Games who did previous Monkey Island games, that were in 2D and this is their first Monkey Island game that is in 3D.

Pros: Great Puzzles, Story well-done, Funny dialogue

Cons: Bad Controls, Camera issues

Developer: TellTale Games