![]() (For at least some of the many, many games that I acquire with the intention of covering them for the site ‘one day’, that day does eventually come). Until now, when it turned out that I wanted to play the game again, and dipped into the GOG library to confirm that I had indeed bought it some time ago with such an occasion in mind. As the Special Edition was (and remains, at the time of writing) the only commercially available version of The Secret of Monkey Island, we (by which I mean I) blithely added a note about it to the bottom of this site’s review of the original a couple of years after it was released and thought little more of it. ![]() Remastered versions of some LucasArts adventures have started to appear via Tim Schafer’s Double Fine Productions over the past five years or so, although this pre-dates all of them and is pitched specifically as an updated ‘Special Edition’ which goes beyond a mere sharpening of the same basic game, introducing all-new graphics, and adding voice acting where there previously was none. On the other hand, I prefer the VGA re-release of The Secret of Monkey Island to the EGA original, so perhaps I don’t really know what I’m talking about. The update then becomes of its time and at a later stage the prevailing opinion may be that it either requires a further update of its own, or that the original was perfectly fine as it was and has in fact aged more gracefully than the newer version. And while it’s not an issue about which I can become particularly exercised, for what it’s worth, I think I’m mainly of the school of thought that games are of their time, and any notion of providing a ‘modern’ update is inherently flawed. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Spoiler: you do have to go into the kitchen.Īrguments about the merits, or otherwise, of remakes, remasters and the like are fairly well-worn. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content. ![]() Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection. ![]()
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