PC Review: Tales of Monkey Island – Ch4

It’s The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood in the latest installment from Telltale Games Chapter 4 of Tales of Monkey Island episodic content. Guybrush now finds himself back on Flotsam Island, the one place he wasn’t looking to see anytime soon and by the hands of none other than Morgan LeFlay,who has turned him over to the evil clutches of De Singe, only to find himself seized by an angry bunch of Pirates who have invoked the Pirate Code and charged him with various crimes.

Developer: Telltale Games
Publisher: Lucas Arts
Genre: 3D Graphic Adventure
Price: $34.95 (Complete Series)

Guybrush is once again in a mess of trouble and must rely on himself and of course you to get him through another wild an wacky adventure. Some of the old characters make return appearances as you get to explore more of Flotsam Island, learn about Pirate Law and this time you’ll actually get to see the inside of the famous Club 41. Once again the writers have cleverly created a fun filled tale for our hero pirate and you to enjoy. Chapter 4 has becomemy favorite of all the releases so far to date and basd solely on the story line.

As with their earlier chapters in the series, the game has the same great visuals and play that you’ve come to enjoy. You get the same controls and features to make your way through thisgame and by the time you’ve reached Chapter 4, you should be really comfortable with all these game controls. This episode is filled with funny and entertaining dialog for the story line and has a great voice acting cast returning. The game has more zany puzzles to solve in order to progress the game along. Chapter 4 gives us even more and more details about some of the characters and I really couldn’t see playing these chapters out of order.

But its not all fun and you need to prepare yourself for some very shocking turns in this chapter. I personally found a small portion of the game to even pay a slight tribute to the ABC show Lost, if an ever so simple tribute it was at that. The final tale in the end is set up really nicely I think, once you make it to the end of Chapter 4 and you’ll be dying for sure to play the final release in the end.

TellTale Games and Lucas Arts has provided a very entertaining tale with Tales of Monkey Island series and the final chapter Rise of the Pirate God is set to release on December 8thnow. Looking back over the past four episodes I clearly thing they’ve provided a very fun and entertaining game think the whole series is worthy of the rating I’m giving this current chapter. (A+)

Robert Owens