The Special Edition update employs a colorful art style that's more reminiscent of the style in The Curse of Monkey Island (the third game in the series) than other games, but it retains the primitive (but pleasing) animation of the first game. The puzzles, the humor, and the Caribbean-sounding tunes that keep you company as you ponder your next move continue to defy their age, and even the original visuals still have plenty of pixel-perfect charm. In The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, meeting and interacting with these characters is every bit as enjoyable as it was almost 20 years ago. Lengthy conversations with the aforementioned salesman can be a little irritating when you have to listen to-as well as read-his persistent patter, but he's still an amusing and memorable character in a cast composed almost entirely of amusing and memorable characters. Some of the conversations are laugh-out-loud funny, and while the actors' delivery isn't always up to the standard of the writing, the voice work is such a great addition to the game that it's difficult to go back to the original edition. When you're not attempting to combine a staple remover with a banana or wondering how to get past a group of deadly piranha poodles, much of your time is spent navigating dialogue trees with characters that include belligerent buccaneers, cholesterol-conscious cannibals, and a used boat salesman named Stan. You might still end up solving some puzzles through trial and error, but you'll also kick yourself for not spotting the clues to the puzzle's solution before resorting to that time-tested technique. Using the "look at" option on an item will afford you an amusing description that often doubles as a clue to its intended purpose. Before you know it, you're walking around the island with all manner of items stuffed into Threepwood's physics-defying pockets, and you'll spend the majority of your time figuring out how to combine or use those items. Shortly after starting out on Melee Island, you visit a bar where pirate leaders drunk on Grog (a drink so acidic that you have to consume it before it eats through the tankard) give you three challenges to complete a surly chef refuses you entry to his kitchen and a hungry seagull makes it difficult for you to pick up what may or may not be a red herring. Monkey Island isn't a game that wastes any time throwing seemingly useless items and satisfying puzzles at you. The Special Edition looks much better and is the only way to play if you want to hear, as well as read, what characters are saying, whereas the original game's interface is less clunky. It's great that you can switch between the two modes on the fly because there are pros and cons to both. Items in your inventory also appear onscreen at all times when playing with the original graphics, but they are mapped to a second pop-up window in the new interface. Other actions, such as "speak to," "pull," "use," and "give," are assigned to onscreen buttons that, depending on whether or not you're playing with the updated visuals, either appear at the bottom of the screen at all times or in a pop-up window mapped to a shoulder button. You can use either analog stick to move a cursor around the screen, and when you're pointing at something you want to interact with or a location you want to move to, you push the A button. The Secret of Monkey Island is an easy game to pick up, regardless of whether or not you've played this kind of adventure game before.
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