Comments on: Review: Tales of Monkey Island Ep4: The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood (PC)

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:23:05 +0000

Well it was the same guy saying it each time, and he was also the obsessed one that tells you the story of it and painted the picture in club 41. I can’t remember his name though.

By: Rees

Rees — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:57:50 +0000

They made such a big deal of the jungle beast and then it was only on screen for about 10 seconds, never to be mentioned again. What’s that all about!?

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:52:55 +0000

Feed him to the jungle beast! (and not playing them means you have no idea what I’m talking about)

By: Tigervamp

Tigervamp — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:11:34 +0000

I have yet to play any of these episodes. I am not sure what’s wrong with me lately…*sighs*

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:03:29 +0000

Speaking of Herman.. hmm, he’s been in every other game (even if it was just a cardboard cutout in 3) and he is my favourite character in the series.. I’m hoping he’s in the next episode in some way or another. I don’t know how that would work seeing as his whole story got changed pretty strangely at the end of MI4, but Telltale seems to be largely ignoring the events in 4 so far (Elaine doesn’t mention anything about them when she’s reeling off Guybrush’s wrongdoings in court, but she has something to say about the other three games for example).

You’re probably right about the blood, but they could have had a ripped shirt around the wound or something like that. I thought Morgan was just faking it and would stand back up when Guybrush turned his back.

By: Rees

Rees — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:01:26 +0000

Yes, yes, yes and yes. I wholeheartedly agree with every single one of your points. This is the best episode so far, and I think most people could play Ep1 and this one and they’d be very happy bunnies indeed.

It is very odd that the NPCs aren’t particularly memorable, come to think of it. I think they fleshed out the characters of a few of them a bit more in this episode and it’s all the better for it, but they haven’t really got anything on the likes of Willy the cartographer or Herman Toothrot…

The Morgan thing actually shocked me – I never saw that coming in a Monkey Island game. I’m sure she’ll be back somehow, though. I think she’s definitely one of the better characters in Tales.

Finally, I guess the lack of blood and gore is to keep the family-friendly rating – it wouldn’t be fair on the youg’uns if they weren’t old enough to play this after playing the first 3 episodes.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:04:23 +0000

Well this episode is my favourite so far. I was a bit thrown by the whole thing with Morgan near the end, especially seeing as nothing like that has been attempted in any of the previous games. This is just my personal opinion; thankfully Guybrush went back to his more comedic tone reasonably quickly.

With the copious amounts of stabbings in the game (a sword in one side and out the other at 3 separate occassions) and no sign of any kind of wound made it seem a little bit like a clipping error rather than a swordfight . There was a scene with LeChuck’s limbs falling off in all their bloody glory at the end of MI2, after all.

The run-on problems of having only two or three different character models left me wondering who each of the returning characters were, as they didn’t really have any distinctive features, but it only took a few lines of dialogue for me to remember who was who.

Those were the only things that I didn’t like about the episode, but Earl Boen back as LeChuck’s voice makes up for them!