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Tales of Monkey Island: Chapter 2 [Download]

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Nowhere does Amazon mention Chapter One MUST be completed so a needed inventory item that appears again in Chapter 2 will allow you to complete the game. You need the Manatee Oracle sight glass to combine with the fish sight glass to read a paper to get the fish artifact. Never played Chapter One? Sorry! Game Over. Very poor design and shame on the designers for not posting this little tidbit. Yet another consumer rip off...sigh.

(*with Voodoo root beer apparently)
I have to hand it to Telltale: Chapter 1 was fun. I especially liked the Blade Runner reference at the end; it was well handled like the rest of the gags.
So, when rumors of Chapter 2 began emerging on the Steam forums(I bought the 5 chapter pack on Steam), I was very excited.
I wasn't disappointed.
Chapter 2 is even more fun than the first(although some of the fun in unintentional,to be discussed later in this review). The err..."mer-people" are hilarious; the androgyny is well played(vaguely reminds me of Omega of Mechanical Animals, an album by Marylin Manson).

Your items from Chapter One carry over(not sure what happens if you don't have a Chapter One savefile but I assume you start off with the same stuff), and they are still of use to you, from that lovely pyrite parrot (yes there are gags involving the "Mighty Pirate") to that mysterious locket.
The game is, dare I say, easier than the first chapter,with the first half being easier, while the second part left me scratching my head sometimes(yes I did go on the fourms after a couple of hours of being stuck in a part, afterwords facepalming :) ). Thankfully there isn't a "maze" sequence;in Chapter One the directions were a bit ambiguous(but admittedly not too different from Secret of Monkey Island). Oh, and no insult swordfighting; the newly introduced character mentions that its "only for farmboys now"("Well you fight like one"). Also, she is a huge fan of Guybrush and can hold her breath for 5 minutes :)

My one gripe? When you get to Spinner Cay the mast repair...er..."person" can swim down to meet you basically at your boat, but it forces you to come to its store for a repair every time. The store is not a long walk from the dock but when its the fourth time you broke your mast(assuming Winston's first hint doesn't help) it does get a bit annoying to make that walk.

The unintentional fun? In one part you sink a ship after insulting another captain and managing to get the fired cannonball to hit the attacking captain's ship;however, the game acts like he's still there and allows you talk to him like his ship was still there. In addition, the door to the lower deck of his ship is left floating. There is another part involving the parrot that has a similar bug(its right before the "invisible pirate captain" BTW, you can get another pyrite turtle and hang it up on...) that is even funnier.
However, there is one bug that does detract from the experience, compression or something like that has degraded the quality of the voice acting, so there are problems with "s" sounds especially. I thought it was a problem with my integrated sound but apparently even X-Fi sound cards have this problem.
Overall a fun game for almost all ages. However if you count Halo 3/CS/GoW/CoD as your favorite games and nothing else you will be disappointed; the action is of course, a bit slow.
I strongly recommend this game to almost all(and even if you like twitch FPSes you should still try the demo) and from what I hear the Wii version isn't too bad either, although they are a bit behind in releasing chapters for WiiWare.

Buying on Amazon means you can buy chapters individually,however try the demo and if you like it, buy the bundle. at the very least you get two good chapters out of 5.

Fun to play and funny as well but much too short. I've palyed the first two games in the series but to continue gets costly.

Well, since the Chapter 1 came out, I have been pleasantly surprised by this game so far. I am new to the Monkey Island games (I never played the older games from long ago), but I have found this new title to be a lot of fun. The episodic element is the baseline for this new game, but I am left wondering what the major draw is to play each game in order. I could theoretically skip the first chapter(s) altogether. With most games I feel that I must finish a particularly difficult puzzle because that is the only way that I will finish the game. However, with TMI that is not the case. Regardless, I have found myself wanting to play each episode anyway, and I find myself eager for the third installment.
I do wish that each episode was a bit cheaper. Nine dollars a pop seems a little pricey, especially because I could buy a different downloadable game (like Ricochet Infinity) for a cheaper price and have a lot more play time.
The only issue I had with Chapter 2 was that the character Elaine's voice over dialogue was of poor audio quality. The "s" sounds sounded terrible. (I believe another reviewer mentioned the same thing). Other than that, I did not run across any major bugs.

This is your old school point and click puzzle solver. I enjoyed the first chapter, but I'm finding it harder and harder to even bring myself to start this one up each evening. The story in the first was fresh and the interface was new to me so while there was some tedium at times, I had a fun time solving the puzzles.

This time 'round, I'm getting more and more frustrated at the nonsensical actions you're required to take to complete some of the puzzles. Most were pretty simple, with obvious clues being given on a fair number of them, but I finally gave up and consulted a guide one one part only to find that the EXACT same thing I'd been doing was apparently the right thing, but only valid if I did it after another dialog selection; it's what I imagine playing a de-motivational poster would be like.

I got the whole set of 5 for less than the price of one game currently, so I can't complain that much. I really wanted to like this, but I don't feel the same sense of interest in the characters like I did in the first one. This chapter is just OK.

Tales of Monkey Island is a great game that follows the spirit of the Monkey Island franchise. I personally consider it at the level of the first 2 (the 3rd and the 4th were kind of weak). You go around impersonating Guybrush Threepwood, "mighty" pirate, gathering objects and figuring out puzzles to get him out of the most bizarre situation. It's a comedy, and the humor is witty and contains no foul language. The puzzles are not too difficult, and if you get stuck, there are hints you can turn on (I never need to do that). Saving is automatic, and by design you cannot do anything "wrong" that would make the game not solvable.