Can we just appreciate the fact Guybrush is holding onto a rope with one arm whilst he is holding onto a chest with the other and still manages to tell a whole ass story
God that music. The way the actually melody dynamically transitions between scenes. And this was back in 1991! Almost. 30. Years. Why haven't more games with higher budgets done this since then?
Now that the Final Fantasy VII Remake has been released, check it out. Not only does the music dynamically transition between scenes, but once you enter combat mode it changes depending on how much action is happening - it becomes more intense when you're constantly attacking, and goes into a sort of sustained medium paced riff when you're just trying to keep your distance.
@@THESCUMMBAR I think the modern version uses "pre-rendered" music whereas the original version used the sound card/midi to synthesize the music on the fly. Even when you switch back to the "original mode" in the remastered edition you don't get the correct music.
I can remember my dad buying me this game in the early 90s from the computer game shop and i initially complained about his game choice . . . but the game grew on me and since then i've become a monkey island fan.
@@hadorstapa I know I'm just being difficult for the sake of semantics. Curse is literally the MI2 sequel Tales is LITERALLY a sequel with Ron Gilbert's involvement
I swear to god this is the best game of all time. . . So many happy memories . It got me into video games and I have been honoured to play them all but none even compare to my first love . I’m a gamer geek and proud
just started this one up again after playing this version couple of times after it came out in 2010, and was happily surprised tonight (its been a few years) and smiling when watching this game opening and playing it for 2hours (and just left scabb Island hehe, i am milking this one out this time) :-) feels like a new game all over again :-)
Amazing!! I have so many nice memories from my childhood during 1997 because of this game. I truly believe this game shaped me as an adult now. I am interested in geography, maps, ships, history of the world and traveling because of this game. Exploring different cultures. God bless you George Lucas!
This game definitely sparked my love for RPGs going forward. The nostalgia 🥲 I'm 8 years old again, sitting in the basement for hours, clicking away. 😍
LeChuck: Guybrush....I am your brother! Guybrush: No. No, that’s not true! That’s impossible! LeChuck: Search your feelings, you KNOW it to be true! Guybrush: Noooooooo!! LMAO - Lucasarts, I love you....
I think that threw me off..... First thing i thought off was Star Wars...... I like this inclusion, but to me single thing ruined MK2 games. It's still great. but i was hoping for something original.
Guybrush shows Le chuck's beard to Largo. It's wriggling, like it's alive Largo: Lemme see that. Largo grabs the beard and shoves it down his pants Largo: It IS alive! *... What's it doing down there!?!*
Thanks for throwing in some Easter eggs and occasionally taking "extra" actions (from a streamlined playthrough perspective) that show the background for why you're about to do some given thing to solve a puzzle that might otherwise seem very non sequitur.
Hey, thanks for noticing! I try to balance the "story" making sense versus not exhausting every single possible interaction (like a longplay would.) So I'm glad you appreciated it.
I've just finished the secret of Monkey Island just now after not playing it for so long and it's still awesome and still a challenge. Going to do this one next so appreciate the guide incase it's needed (which it probably will at some point lol). One game I wish they'd re release which is just as good as this too is Discworld II Missing Presumed, that game is so underrated yet so good!!
Le'Chuck on Customer Support for VooDoo Dolls. "Arrrrgh, this Voodoo doll you made me is defective! It was suppose to send Guybrush to a dimension of infinite pain and suffering!" "Sir, what did you ask for specifically when you ordered the doll?" "I asked for a doll to cause harm to him and send him to another dimension you phone-jockey wench!" "Then the doll is working properly, as you did not specify a dimension when you asked for one to be made, the doll has it's coordinates set for the nearest sub-dimension. If he's re-appearing in the next room, then he's in the dimension the doll is set too." "... Arrr...err.... What dimension is the doll set too?" "According to your account with the VooDoo priest you requested, he set the coordinate to the dimension of Big Whoop, the theme park dimension; as the original treasure was deemed not only difficult to attain, but impossible." ".... Crab Baskets and Barnacle Butts! HOW DO I GET OUT OF HERE?!" "By our account of the sub dimension, you will need to exit where you will and the intended target will become children and re-live your lives in your new home for the rest of your years, attain a VooDoo doll with new coordinates set to the previous dimension you came from or bite the bullet as our policy when ordering from us is that you are to take full accountability with any and all actions you have performed with your purchase. Thanks for calling VooDoo Support of Melee Island." ".......RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
Wow this brings back so many fond memories of my childhood. I remember getting given this game as a birthday present from my dad. We would play it together. The music takes me back. Thanks for the video.
Man. No game since has ever successfully emulated that adventurous feel of exploring the islands of Monkey Island, especially the eternal-night first islands of MI1 and MI2. MI3 was okay, but the series was basically done by that point without the original creator(s) (Ron Gilbert, Tim Schafer, Dave Grossman)
Tim Schafer actually had some involvement in the 3rd game. Dave Grossman and Ron Gilbert worked on Tales of Monkey Island. The 4th game, Escape, is probably where the series went into free fall.
Best part about this is that Guybrush and LeChuck does the thing from Star Wars where Darth Vader (Anakin) tells Luke "I am your father" and Luke goes "Nooooo!!"
41:46 too bad you didn't read the "gorilla envelope" in which it says "Mr. Willy Gorilla. Arrested for grinding his organ in public" (at least it said so in the original version)
*goes to Scabb Island* *steals everyone’s belongings* *gets a man fired from his job* *sets a baby crocodile loose* *drives a man out of town with a voodoo doll* *refuses to elaborate* *leaves*
looting i would say. Kids are probably gonna do that worse today anyway in todays games... They teach kids to kill with violence anyway.. So, suddenly teaching to steal doesn't sound soo bad.
Almost all of the puzzles I couldn't solve were on Phatt Island. I lost patience with the hand numbers game, the library card catalog, and I was so angry when I had to cheat to find out that I was supposed to put Kate's flyer on Guybrush's "wanted" poster. I would have probably played the game for months without ever thinking to try that without cheating.
I watched this like four times as background noise before i finally realized the number game is SO SIMPLE. What the door guy says means nothing, it's just whatever number of fingers he shows you first. I facepalmed so hard. (yes i realize this is a month old)
1:15:19 ...wow.. i wish i could fix things that fast!! 1:17:50 ... I like the nice touches even though Guybush can't spit in the bar, yet the bartender is doing the same to clean glasses.
31:00:31:40 when Largo took LeChucks beard and told Guybrush they could bring him back to life with it, why didn’t he use the voodoo doll to stop Largo? I never understood that 🤔
Rapp Scallion's Death is the explosion from his Steamin' Weenie hut on Scabb Island and he died on his 35th birthday from a flash fire by LeChuck. It is revealed in The Curse of Monkey Island to find out the other fates of Captain Marley's crew.
The iMuse system , transition of music between scenes although it was tough back them which is probably why they didn't do it anymore,, Today, many would still go for it. Where people leave that for dead, others can easily pick up again.
I wonder why Chuckie looks different in the tunnel as opposed to when they come out of it.... Also Return to MI really doesn't even tie in with this. Those *are* their parents, they aren't pretending anything obviously since those grownups say it themselves
Most of the visuals of the special edition of M1 actually look decent. It has one huge problem though, Guybrush. Guybrush looks absolutely horrible! And since you are looking at him throughout the entire game, that is a pretty bad design to screw up on. Another big flaw in M1 SE is not being able to play with original graphics and voices like you can do in MI2 SE.
@@HerecomestheCalavera actually you can change it to original graphics... You press F10 in the first one and in the second game you press F1. Don't ask why they changed it.
Btw - what makes this 'Special' as opposed to the edition that came before? Is it the jazzed up graphics & music? And the speech/voice acting? (Is the voice acting new on these later editions, or are they the same recordings from 1991?) THanks very much peeps!
HD graphics, orchestral soundtrack and voice acting. The 1991 orginals did not have any kind of voice acting. It was recorded in 2009 for this version.
thank you for this play through i just got this game free through twitch prime and it’s so fun! I remember playing the first one on xbox when it was on gamepass
Togepony You always just say the number of fingers he first held up. eg If he holds up 3 and says this is 1. The answer is always 3 no matter how many he holds up the second time.
Oh wow. I can't believe it took that long to catch that editing mistake! I actually had to stop to do something at that point. If this happens, I try to cut it as is I hadn't stopped playing. But it looks like I screwed up this time!
I'm stuck, I have three map piecesI try to take the ash to the voodoo lady . But I can't get her to do anything . She only talks about the voodoo doll and that's it my only choice I've been given . This was my favourite game back in 1992 I'm 35 now and start playing this version .
@@Charlyfromthenuclearcity Just close your eyes and think this was the only version in existence... Keep thinking there was no MK2 original.. This is a better version anyway.. I guess LucasArts (like al) wanna cash in more. The SE didn't do much except out better graphics and audio. The rest is basically the same... Too bad too, they could of tempted users with extra gags only available with the SE version.. I wondered if Ron thought of that.
games like these teach you how to be criminals... ahem...... i mean..... how to pick up a bucket and a peice of wood that u can use to open a door or somthing
You get most of the achievements for just completing the game without using hints, in under 3 hours. The only other ones are: Inhale some helium during the last sequence (I do this in this video, but it is not required to complete the game.), Get lost in the Dinky Island jungle (just walk around randomly) then use the phone box - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w01NkYb12Yg.html, and Wait 5 minutes and 'die' in LeChuck's machine - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LwqFSq51t_U.html
No, this is normal difficulty. You can't even play the easy path in special edition. I do have a video of the easy path here though: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8Ve757ZCj9U.html
This is the real ending. How Guybrush escaped the Carnival of the damned is not explicitly stated, but LeChucks speech at the start of Part V of MI3 does go in to some additional detail.
