LeChuck’s Revenge launched in 256 colours straight out of the gate, looking stunningly rich, every scene overflowing with intrigue and mystery, a delight to mouse over and explore. The Secret of Monkey Island first released in 16 colours Purcell described as “ghastly”.
The style, the feel, the world were the same – but more. Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge (1991) Image: LucasArtsĪgain directed and designed by Ron Gilbert, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge brought together the same writing team of Gilbert, Dave Grossman and Tim Schafer, plus Steve Purcell carrying on as artist.
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So much more could be said: The Secret of Monkey Island laughs at itself with too-convenient items (“rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle”?), toys with the genre-typical ability to pick almost anything up (that time by the dock), creates puzzles from dialogue, delivers perfect comic timing with just text and pixelated glances at the camera… but we have more games to get to. Puzzles are extended through long, logical chains, fastidiously mapped out in “puzzle dependency charts”, and embedded in the story, dispensing rewards of new characters, items, dialogue and – that very tastiest of morsels feeding the graphic adventure compulsion loop – whole screenfuls of new graphics.
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You can move, uncaged, to a different trial when you’re stuck. In The Secret of Monkey Island, the player immediately meets three parallel challenges – The Three Trials supposed to bestow piratehood. So, don’t reveal a solution before the problem is encountered, don’t abstract puzzles from the story, and don’t “cage the player”, providing too little to do at once. The hallmarks of Monkey Island’s design are captured in three of Gilbert’s principles: make puzzles that aren’t “backwards”, that “advance the story” and that “give the player options”.
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But, before we get to that, let's have a lool back at the full history of the series, shall we? The Secret of Monkey Island (1990) Image: LucasArts
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