Return to Monkey Island Nintendo Switch Review - Is It Worth It? 

Played it on PC. If you played the other M.I. games this is a must play. It transported me back to my childhood being in this world again, then made me tear up when I beat it and it brought me back to present day, and said goodbye

I'm glad Return to Monkey Island was enjoyable for Felix who'd never played the earlier ones - I grew up on this series since the 90s and the plot points of the first few are second nature. Lucasfilm Games definitely missed a chance to port over the Special Editions of 1 and 2, that would've been a great bundle experience.

I can die with no regrets now. The Secret is that Monkey Island was just a really fantastic video game, even the "lesser" ones are still some of my favorite games ever.

I gotta stand up for Curse of Monkey Island here. One of my favorite games of all time that absolutely captured the spirit of the first two, even without Ron Gilbert. Plus it looked, and especially sounded, fantastic.

Loved the game and loved both reviews. The first, more technical and analytical, and the second, more honest and heartfelt. Good job.

First Monkey Island I have played. A 10/10 game.

That review was fantastic. Love this series. Also awesome that the lead character's voice actor noticed your +comments about the game

Thank you for your review. This game holds a secret map to our childhood for some of us.

I grew up with Curse and Escape, I later played Secret and 2 when I was much older. Love this game so much, I really hope they make more and point and clicks come back in force. Also I think Escape needs a re-do.

Thanks for the graphics setting tip I never ever would have thought to look 😏

Awesome review! Thanks for the warm words about the special art style!

I thought Felix was being mean about Escape and Tales when he said "Oh and there are two OTHER games..." until the end he revealed he'd never played Monkey Island before 😅

Ahhh so many memories. I was playing this on my Pc 386 when you’re still giving commands in dos and lunching manually exe files. It had a physical wheel to that you had to make combinations of different skulls and with the password that you obtained you’re granted to enter the game (it was a way to check if you had the original version and not a pirate one). I’m going to get this 100% 🎉

Can't wait to play it. Monkey island on An Amiga was one of the first games I ever played. I just hope we get a physical release. Or even an upto date re release of the first 2.

I'm really glad to see that one of the actors from Dire Straits "money for nothing" music video finally getting some more work. 🙌

Is it any good? Yes. And I strongly urge people to play the other Monkey Island games too. (Or at least, the first three)

I first played Monkey Island when the special edition came out on Xbox 360 and I fell in love with it. Played the Special Edition of Lechuck's Revenge, Curse of Monkey Island and Tales of Monkey Island and loved them too. Never finished Escape From Monkey Island though. Love the series and had a blast with Return to Monkey Island. Really glad the series got another game.

12:58 Secret code ❤

Regarding the hint system , The Tex Murphy Adventure games in the 90's onn PC did this before , highly recommended stuff !!!

Hope you enjoy going through the old ones. 1 and 2 are classics (2 being one of my favourite games of all time), 3 is also a classic though you can tell the team and direction changed a lot and it's a slight notch below.

I live the Monkey Island series but I gotta say that I hate this new artstyle. Why couldn't they just keep the animated look of the previous MK game?

Never played monkey island but after seeing your rewiew, im thinking about tryit out

Great review, as always! Little mistake at the end, Felix, or was that your twin talking?

Beautiful game, next maybe Grim Fandango II....

Very glad I watched this video. I hadn't bought it because I thought I had to have played the previous installments to understand this one. It looks really fun and I'm gonna buy it! Thank you.

Reject humanity, return to monke(y island)

Onlyy played curse of monkey island but I loved it and it reminds me of my childhood, I am kinda biased liking curse animation more than return to MI

monkey island: the series that may have a varied best way to play the series! The way i have played it is, MI2, MI1, MI3... RTMI..

are all these games good? I saw there was a bundle of 5 of them on Steam. I've never played any and was debating starting with the new one or the original, not sure if I'll want to play the ones in between or not.

Never knew the franchise but it looks very dope

some of the things in return to monkey island I've actually been living . double take moment.

Is it strange playing with the controls on switch for a point and click?

Great review. You’ve convinced me to purchase this game on my Switch Lite rather than playing it on my laptop or Steam Deck.

Was very good, just a tad too lateral/easy. I think I got stuck once.

What about the curse of monkey island?

I finished it, With the extra puzzles And extra gibberish And I loved (almost) every second of it. The last puzzle screw up my pacing, so I used the hints there🤣

I'm huge fan of the series. I hope I will like this one as well.

Love this series! Got the physical version and it’s beautiful.

On the quality settings - Probably an artifact of being developed for PC then ported to Switch, but also Switch games tens to have different settings for performance for Docked, unlocked modes, and now we have Lite, Standard, and OLED editions.

This sounds really good, but are some of the puzzles obtuse? I’m just wondering if they really went with bizarro solutions like in the glory days of point-and-click games of old.

Awesome! I even bought this game on PC and Switch! I was waiting for this for many years! I just have to find time to play it 😂😂😂

Any reason why this wasn't released as a collection, with the first 2 games included?

Game is fantastic as me growing up completing the first 2. Mega monkey mode on second on the amiga as well. I don't like the addition of the tip book i didn't use it that's just a way to ruin the game. It took me 18 hours to complete the game on hard mode finding all trivia cards on the pc the pc version is slightly different on certain puzzles. He needs to make more I never played past the 3rd monkey island as they are garbage

I've enjoyed it so far but some of the new voice actors are a bit weak

Seems great but a lot of money for such a short game... waiting for a 30% off discount on steam i think

idk man, maybe I could get used to the art style, but on first impression I'm not into it..

Hello fellow chum. This game ticks so many boxes, funny, witty, whimsical, decent puzzles, so many call backs and in jokes. Two difficulty levels. Only gripe is that once you leave 7 trivia cards unanswered, they stop spawning.

Please go play the original. I appreciate the perspective of a new fan into the series. You've done a fair representation so thank you

This game is kinda ugly. So sad how the charm of older games doesn't exist anymore

Did he just say "dubious canonicity"?

If you want the true 90s experience, turn off the voices. I know they’re great, but I wasn’t getting the same nostalgic experience until I switched them off.

я считаю что справедливо мистера Гилберта отстранили от работы над 3й частью серии. Он доказал мой вывод данной бесвкусицей/ I think it's fair that Mr. Gilbert was suspended from working on the 3rd part of MI. He proved my conclusion to this bad taste thing.

I don't know why but this game screams switch to me and that's the only place I wanna play it >.

It is REALLY good.

OMG! This is the third game? Consider I'm game.

Can't wait to play this, depresses me that the creator got so down about it

Embrace tradition, return to monkè

Artstyle makes it unplayable to me :/ but much fun to anyone who finds it appealing..

"Played so many point and click games" but apparently missed all the classics. :P

Mofo still fights like a dairy farmer.

For me, I hate the graphical art style of this game. So that's why I passed on the physical version that Limited Run Games offered.

Great review, thanks guys!

Art style looks a lot like from Psychonauts series. The second game is amazing! Give it a try, it's only on PlayStation and Xbox though.

Secret of the Monkey Island and LeChuck’s Revenge were among the best “point & click” adventure games ever created (side by side with Maniac Mansion and Zack McKraken and the Alien Mindbenders)… I LOVED THEM ALL! And I really hope that this new (old) Return to Monkey Island is INDEED a very good game, BUT GOOD LORD! IHATE this art style!!! Sorry folks, if you are not with me in this, but I find it AWFULLY AWFUL!

Thank you for your wonderful video!🎉

where are the monkeys

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I really don't like the art style. Reminds me of these horrible cheap cartoons for kids on cartoon network or something like that. Really want to play it, but the art style is just not appealing. Computer generated "drawings". No thanks.

Hmm

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You need to be more creative with your titles. “Is it any good” is so lazy and generic, it immediately devalues whatever content you prepared for the review. Put more effort in those titles