Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge | LucasArts | MS-DOS | 1991

Hmm... this is an interesting one. The technological advances from the first game are absolutely huge, with iMUSE being a revolutionary audio engine for this game, tying the MIDI cues in with the actions in the game. The amount of work it must have taken to write appropriate loops for all of the various points in the phrases where players could transition must have been intense. But all of that is balanced out by a puzzle game that I don't think is all that good. Too many of the solutions are way too obtuse (I know that LucasArts point & click adventure games are a meme) with even retrospective hinting being way too subtle for someone to have reasonably figured out on first pass. I cut over three hours of wasted time from this, and there's still a good amount of bumbling (and maybe I cut parts where I did achieve something minor? Not sure. I wasn't going to watch through 13 hours of footage). In the end this was pretty much done using a walkthrough. I will say that the game retains its charm and sense of humour from the first instalment. But the end of the story was hugely unsatisfying. I'll have to see what the third instalment is like before properly drawing a conclusion on this. ~~~~~~~~~~ CHAPTERS 00:00:00 Intro & credits 00:04:44 Part I - The Largo Embargo 02:26:21 Part II - Four Map Pieces 07:41:03 Part III - LeChuck's Fortress 08:26:23 Part IV - Dinky Island 09:57:24 Closing credits 09:59:33 Nonsense ~~~~~~~~~~ Check out my Twitch channel at   / grimreaperwithalawnmower