What is The Secret of Monkey Island anyway? Something you will not discover in this game, that’s for sure. But instead, you’ll find yourself immersed in a goofy but hearty pirate story, full of epic quests, (insult) sword fights, loot, and… undead navigator heads? In the beginning of the nineties, The Secret’s release, the first in many to come, was still largely ignored. Adventure games didn’t sell well, even the later ones, and even if they were reviewed well, probably also leadin...| PC on Jefklak's Codex
It has been since December 2021 that I touched a Monkey Island game: The Curse of Monkey Island. What better way to celebrate the exciting upcoming release of Return to Monkey Island next week than to replay all the other games? Or at least the most revered ones, The Secret of Monkey Island and its successor, LeChuck’s Revenge. Both got a “special edition” fresh coat of paint, just like Day of the Tentacle Remastered, which you might or might not like: we’ll see in a bit what’s so s...| PC on Jefklak's Codex
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Kathy Rain: A Forgotten 1995 Point & Click Jewel from 2016. Adventure games are dead—the title of a forum post that pops up every few months since 1996 or so. Then devs reveal a promising title at E3, the hype is real, the tension rises, the game is released, and everybody posts adventure games are dead again. Sure, there are exceptions, such as Gilbert and Winnick’s Thimbleweed Park. But wait, even a year before that release, Kathy Rain popped up, Clifftop Games’ debut no less. A forgo...| jefklakscodex.com
Day Of The Tentacle (Remastered). If there is any adventure game that doesn’t need an introduction, it’s LucasArts’ masterpiece Day of the Tentacle (DOTT). And with that, I’ve already spoiled our evaluation of the game: it’s nothing less than amazing. This month, we’ve replayed the remastered edition of the game, which gives it a fresh new coat that… we ended up disliking and brushing aside. Via Jefklak's Codex| jefklakscodex.com
The Curse of Monkey Island: Guybrush Departs From Pixels With Mixed Success. Six years after the highlight of LucasFilm Games, Monkey Island: LeChuck’s Revenge, LucasFilm turned LucasArts finally takes another stab at Guybrush’s piratey adventures in the Caribbean Sea. It took a while because the big corsairs by then had set sail and left the safe harbor of the Lucas Ranch. After Monkey 2, Ron Gilbert started working on kids adventure games (Freddy Fish, Putt Putt, Pajama Sam), Tim Schafe...| jefklakscodex.com
Irony Curtain: From Monkey Humor With Love. What do you get when you mix the humor of The Curse of Monkey Island with the looks of Deponia and the puzzles of Broken Sword? Coat all this with a lot of Russian Red and the end result is Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka With Love, a surprisingly well put-together adventure game from Artifex Mundi, a developer that mostly creates short smartphone-based games. Via Jefklak's Codex| jefklakscodex.com