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It’s that time again, to live the life of a courageous, swashbuckling pirate. Or in this case, a misfit, scandalous pirate.
The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood is the newest episode in the Tales of Monkey Island by Telltale games. In the beginning, Guybrush is being hauled back to Flotsam Island, courtesy of the backstabbing Morgan. Once there, he is summoned to court to face charges for various thing he is accused of doing. Of course, each accusation is false and you must now break out of jail and get yourself free of all charges and avoid the violent hanging that awaits you.
Oh, and you also have to cure the island of the pox as well.
You will see a familiar face in this game taking the form of the prosecution. I won’t name names but let's just say you will see plenty of loud jackets and flying arms.
No Noose is Good Noose
This is the second to last episode in the series and everything is slowly coming into place. You even find out a little secret about the voodoo lady and Le Chuck (no, not that kind of secret).
This game mainly takes place at Guybrush’s trial and the puzzles contain a lot of trail and error themselves (pun very much intended). Basically, you need to talk to people and find items that will help prove your innocence, each person is lying about what happened, so you need to figure out how to catch them.
Then when you are free of the trial, you discover that the La Sponge Egrande is actually La Sponge Euseless. You already used up all it’s power to cure yourself, so now you need to feed it a “meal of the senses” to reenact it’s power, with help from the voodoo lady. This means more jungle exploring, more interactions with the crazy pirates of Flotsam, and the return of some old favorites like Le Chuck and that annoying French scientist.
I found that the best course of action in a game like this is to try everything you can. Click on everything, use every item with every item and talk to everyone multiple times, even if you think it’s silly. I figured out a lot of puzzles this way. Other than that, I found this episode to be not too difficult and very fun.
Real Pirates Don’t Drink Light Grog
This one was especially fun since you had to specific tasks to complete. First you had to get acquitted of all charges, then you had to re-energize the sponge. Although the tasks could be challenging, you knew what you needed to accomplish rather than just randomly walking around hoping these two items you picked up will do anything.
The game does gives hints (if you choose that option) by having Guybrush thinking out loud once in awhile and saying things like “maybe I should be searching the jungle right now!” But often the hints aren’t specific enough to be helpful and it is impossible to get him to say it. It seems as if he just says it randomly. So when you are running around trying to figure out what to do, you might not get the hint until you have already figured it out.
There were times when I had to completely guess at what I had to do though because there were no “hints” left for me. For instance, towards the middle of the game, you have to serve someone with a summons (I won’t say who) and I only figured out how to actually do it by randomly trying things. It would have been nice to have a hint somewhere, like when talking to someone.
Also note that if you have played the other Monkey Island game (I mean the original games by LucasArts) you will notice that this game really ties up the whole series and explains a lot of the things that happened in the other games. I thought that was cool that they did that, however, it also means that their might not be any more Monkey Island games. I guess we had enough though.
Not the End Yet
We still have one more episode left in this crazy tale and it will definitely be a big one.
I can only imagine how Telltale will end this great series of games. It will definitely have to be something big, perhaps over the top. Until then though, check out this game and the others if you haven’t played them yet on the PC and Wii.
Tales on Monkey Island Reviews:
Site [Telltale games] Also Read [Joystiq]
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