Tales of Monkey Island
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| Studio | Telltale Games | ||
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 Telltale Games Daedalic Entertainment
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| Erstveröffent- lichung |
July 7, 2009 November 10, 2010 |
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| platform | iOS , Mac OS X , PlayStation 3 , Wii , Windows | ||
| Game engine | Telltale tool | ||
| genre | Point-and-click adventure | ||
| Subject | Pirates | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control | Keyboard , mouse | ||
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Download (Win, PS3, Wii), DVD-ROM (Win, Mac) |
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| language | English German | ||
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| information | According to the USK website, the Wii episodes were released without any age restriction. The Windows / Mac version was approved for ages 6 and up. The PS3 version is released from the age of 12. | ||
Tales of Monkey Island is the fifth title in the Monkey Island computer game series . Unlike the four parts of the main series, Tales of Monkey Island was no longer developed by LucasArts , but by Telltale Games , which originally published the game in the form of a series of five episodes for Windows and the Wii , LucasArts was merely a licensor. The episodes Launch of the Screaming Narwhal , The Siege of Spinner Cay , Lair of the Leviathan , The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood and Rise of the Pirate God were released between July and December 2009 as a download, usually every six weeks. Complete versions and publications on data carriers followed later.
action
Episode 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal
At the beginning of the story, Guybrush has to free his wife Elaine from the clutches of the ghost pirate LeChuck, who hijacked her ship and kidnapped her. Guybrush sails his ship to Elaine's ship and tries to put LeChuck out of action with a saber that has been dipped in self- mixed root beer . Instead of defeating LeChuck, he is instead brought to life and part of his evil spirit wanders directly into Guybrush's hand, which from then on can no longer be controlled. The ship explodes when powder kegs are accidentally set on fire, and Guybrush is washed up on the beach at Flotsam Island as a shipwrecked man.
On Flotsam Island he learns from the local pirates that all the winds blow on Flotsam Island and none away from them. So the island is a trap for everyone as it is impossible to escape by ship. It is now Guybrush's task to find out the secret of the winds in order to neutralize their effect. But first he has to help a local newspaper publisher research good stories for his newspaper in order to get important pointers from him. He delivers these stories with his own behavior, namely he causes a fight in a club, enables a treasure hunt and conquers the ship Screaming Narwhal .
In the second part of the episode, he has to discover the secret of a wind control machine that the native inhabitants of the island built and that now sucks in all the winds. Guybrush discovers that the island's first western resident, a French doctor by the name of the Marquis de Singe , discovered this machine and put it into operation to flush patients to his island. The machine can be controlled by so-called idols, a kind of number lock, which are distributed across the island. Guybrush can eventually reverse the effect of the machine. The winds are now blowing away from the island, and Guybrush can sail back to Elaine's ship with his ship Screaming Narwhal . There he sees through the telescope that LeChuck is making her advances. The episode ends when the player hears a female voice that Guybrush seems to know and threatens him with her saber.
Episode 2: The Siege of Spinner Cay
Guybrush is threatened by a pirate hunter named Morgan LeFlay, hired by the Marquis de Singe to steal Guybrush's infected hand. In a fierce battle, Guybrush loses his hand but manages to get rid of Morgan. After Guybrush now uses a grappling hook instead of the lost hand, he sails to the Jerkbait Islands, where he meets Elaine and the reborn LeChuck again. Meanwhile, Elaine is caught in the middle of the conflict between the mermaid inhabitants of the Jerkbait Islands and the pirates infected with smallpox. The pirates want to steal three artifacts from the islanders that will enable them to find La Esponja Grande , the Great Sponge, LeChuck's only cure for smallpox . To back up their demands, the pirates besieged the islands.
After Guybrush has collected the artifacts and sets off for the site of Esponja Grande, Morgan LeFlay reappears, now with the task of delivering the rest of Guybrush's body to de Singe. But at the crucial moment, the Narwhal is swallowed by a huge manatee .
Episode 3: Lair of the Leviathan
Inside the manatee, Guybrush meets an adventurer named Coronado De Cava, who is also looking for La Esponja Grande. He convinces him and his crew to be accepted into the team. Now he can lead the male manatee to the mating site of the sea monsters and repository of La Esponja Grande. Once there, the female manatee blocks his way to the giant sponge. After Guybrush finds a way to communicate with the manatees, he can lure the female out of her den and take possession of the sponge. Back on his ship, De Cava claims the giant sponge for himself, but in the end Guybrush can defeat him with the help of the giant manatees. However, he is knocked out a little later by Morgan LeFlay.
Episode 4: The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood
Guybrush is brought back to Flotsam Island by Morgan LeFlay and delivered to the Marquis de Singe. Once there, however, he was not taken into custody by De Singe, but by the pirate court and charged on four counts. He is said to have destroyed an "X", scarred a thigh, scared a cat into freezing and faked a "Ninja Dave" action figure. Well argued, just before the acquittal, Judge WP Grindstump noticed another charge on the back of the pamphlet relating to the causation of voodoo pox. With the help of his wife Elaine and the friendly LeChuck, however, he is eventually acquitted.
However, LeChuck and the Voodoo Lady are now in jail and Elaine has not yet been freed from smallpox. So Guybrush again seeks advice from the Voodoo Lady, who gives him a menu that can be used to enlarge Esponja Grande at the “Festival of the Senses”. While he is getting the ingredients, he finds Morgan LeFlay in the Marquis's laboratory - stabbed to death with a saber while trying to get his voodoo hand back. However, Guybrush does not fully understand her last words and assumes that De Singe murdered her. When Guybrush has gathered all the ingredients for the festival of the senses, he rushes to the now repaired wind machine, where he catches De Singe trying to pulverize smallpox infected Elaine with the wind machine and atomize it in the Caribbean. De Singe hopes for immortality in this way, as he produces a kind of elixir of life (the Juice de Vie) from smallpox.
Instead, and out of revenge for the alleged murder of Morgan, De Singe himself now suffers that fate. Guybrush positions La Esponja Grande in the whistle of the wind tunnel (last menu course of the “Festival of the Senses”) and brings la Esponja Grande to its effective size - which then soaks up the cloud of voodoo pox. Now released from prison for lack of evidence, LeChuck shows up. Not as friendly as before, he kills Guybrush without further ado, and with the collected voodoo energy from the Esponja Grande he turns back into a zombie who wants to marry the now widowed Elaine.
Episode 5: Rise of the Pirate God
In the last part, Guybrush awakens as a ghost in the afterlife. After he has freed himself from his grave, he can get to the crossroads with a skeleton ferryman, from there to three other destinations: sword fighting, thieves' hideout and treasure hunt. After he was able to create a rift to this world with the help of a few things and the ghost Morgan LeFlay, he lands on the ghost ship of LeChuck, which uses the voodoo powers of the Esponja Grande to make Elaine his undead wife.
In order to prevent LeChuck from ruling the entire Caribbean, Guybrush must now send the Esponja Grande on a diet. For this he receives help from the Voodoo Lady, who first helps him to reunite his soul with his body with a special Voodoo adhesive rubber. Then she helps him again by speaking through a dead seagull. After Guybrush was able to reunite his two "body parts", he also succeeds in shrinking the Esponja Grande back to its original size as Esponja Pequeño (Small Sponge) with highly unusual things.
Back on LeChuck's ship, Guybrush now has to prevent the zombie pirate from subjugating the Three Island Empire. Thanks to the active support of Elaine and Morgan, Guybrush LeChuck gets stuck in the gap and the zombie pirate is finally finished off. But our hero is now stuck in the afterlife as a zombie. With the help of Elaine's diamond ring, Guybrush gets back to his ship in the realm of the living in perfect health and sails with Elaine into the sunset on new saber-rattling and pillaging adventures.
After the credits, the last scene shows how Morgan hands the LeChuck trapped in a jar in plasma form to the Voodoo Lady. The adventure ends with a triumphant laugh from the sorceress.
Game principle and technology
Tales of Monkey Island is a 3D point-and-click adventure . For polygons composite, three-dimensional figures to act likewise in three-dimensional scenes. The engine Telltale Tool developed by the manufacturer itself was used . The player can use the mouse to move his character through the locations and use the mouse buttons to initiate actions that allow the character to interact with his environment. Guybrush can find objects, apply them to the environment or other objects and communicate with NPCs . As the story progresses, more locations will be unlocked. The camera shows what is happening from a variable perspective; If the player leaves the field of vision within a room, the camera switches to a new, better position. Dialogues take place via context-related selection menus. Occasionally, the action is interrupted by so-called mini - games , in which the player must use skill instead of thinking. Cutscenes take place entirely in game graphics.
Production notes
With the bankruptcy of Telltale Games in 2018, the game was delisted from online sales platforms. Some of the Telltale licenses, including the one for Tales of Monkey Island , were bought out by LCG Entertainment, which made the game available again in June 2020.
reception
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Tales of Monkey Island received mostly positive reviews. The review database Metacritic aggregates 6 reviews to an average of 86. The German-language online magazine 4Players praised the weird humor and the professional soundtrack of the game, but pointed to the very different quality of the individual episodes.
- PC Games 08/09 78%
- Adventure Corner 07/09 83%
Web links
- Tales of Monkey Island at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ telltalegames.com
- ↑ 4Players.de: Tales of Monkey Island: Episodic pirate adventure from Telltale available again on Steam and GOG. Retrieved July 5, 2020 .
- ↑ a b 4Players.de: Test: Tales of Monkey Island. Retrieved July 5, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Metacritic.com: Tales of Monkey Island. Retrieved April 1, 2018 .
