Monkey Island 5 SUCKS!
Everyone is talking about Monkey Island 1-4, but few remember to mention fan-favorite "Monkey Island 5". This epic, 40-hour super experience is heralded for having all the features anyone who hates episodes could ever want.
But really, was it all that great?
First of all, it's just a re-tread of everything that has come before. Oh, have to get near-useless crew. How original. Banishing LeChuck's latest form, though admittedly this has become more of a series staple, I thought that they could have come up with better than a "glowy" Zombie LeChuck. I mean, really, what was up with that?
The ending was non-existent! We spend a HUGE chunk of this 40-hour game crafting the Cursed Cutlass of Kaflu. We found AGAIN all of these items that were in the other games, from a voodoo doll to the Ultimate Insult(ugh) to defeat LeChuck. And when we find all but the fizzy root beer...the game just ends. Abruptly. I mean, we didn't even get a conclusion until recently in Tales of that story. And while it was an epic ending, to be sure, wouldn't it have been more fitting to leave it in its own game? Surely Monkey Island 5 wouldn't have suffered so much if it didn't completely lack an ending.
Why did we have to go to so much trouble to get a monkey coffin, anyway? It wasn't used in the course of Monkey Island 5, so what is the point of that anyway?
And LeChuck stealing monkies? It's a bit hard to swallow, and this is for a series that can get pretty thick in shtick.
Speaking of LeChuck, even *I* can't believe how he ended up surviving the ending of Escape from Monkey Island.
Monkey Island 5 is a HUGE game, that's to be sure. But if one is to go by quality rather than quantity, it's obvious that it is a severe failure compared to Tales of Monkey Island already.
Yes, this is a play on the whole "After Monkey Island 5" business. Sue me.
But really, was it all that great?
First of all, it's just a re-tread of everything that has come before. Oh, have to get near-useless crew. How original. Banishing LeChuck's latest form, though admittedly this has become more of a series staple, I thought that they could have come up with better than a "glowy" Zombie LeChuck. I mean, really, what was up with that?
The ending was non-existent! We spend a HUGE chunk of this 40-hour game crafting the Cursed Cutlass of Kaflu. We found AGAIN all of these items that were in the other games, from a voodoo doll to the Ultimate Insult(ugh) to defeat LeChuck. And when we find all but the fizzy root beer...the game just ends. Abruptly. I mean, we didn't even get a conclusion until recently in Tales of that story. And while it was an epic ending, to be sure, wouldn't it have been more fitting to leave it in its own game? Surely Monkey Island 5 wouldn't have suffered so much if it didn't completely lack an ending.
Why did we have to go to so much trouble to get a monkey coffin, anyway? It wasn't used in the course of Monkey Island 5, so what is the point of that anyway?
And LeChuck stealing monkies? It's a bit hard to swallow, and this is for a series that can get pretty thick in shtick.
Speaking of LeChuck, even *I* can't believe how he ended up surviving the ending of Escape from Monkey Island.
Monkey Island 5 is a HUGE game, that's to be sure. But if one is to go by quality rather than quantity, it's obvious that it is a severe failure compared to Tales of Monkey Island already.
Yes, this is a play on the whole "After Monkey Island 5" business. Sue me.
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Winning thread indeed.
And then, Herman Toothrot came close to revealing the true Secret of Monkey Island™, but we all know what happened to him before he could.
And you consider yourself a MI fan ?
Well. It was pretty bad anyway, so you haven't missed much. Bet you missed a lot of in jokes in Tales because of this, tho..
also loved the monkey wedding.
Nope, sorry. Only itialian words i know would be spaghetti and Bella Ciao (not even sure if i spelled that right).
I hope nobody stole my beloved and silly nickname :eek:
and to pretender... Reread the first post carefully, you'll get it
Lol!!!
Did anyone else get that glitch with the sad music and the possesed Gibbon when you asked about LOOMtm?
This would actually be awesome
Whose silly idea was it, buy the way, that you had to steal Wally's socks and to use them on the zombie rats? Not to mention the jungle labyrinth with the demon monkeys. One wrong move and you had to start from the beginning. Took me two days.
Click on Cutless of Kaflu
"You won't believe the adventures I went through to make this thing..."
And to see LeChuck made a screaming chair out of Ozzy Mandrill... Priceless
You should be more careful, that's some bad disease. I'd take an appointment with Le Marquis de Singe if I were you
Yeah, no thanks lol.
Dammit, this is making me so angry just thinking about that game. It's so bad it makes Escape from Monkey Island look like LeChuck's Revenge!
Anybody have the screenshots?
The music wasn't as good as in the other games, too. In fact it was horrible. They also could have chosen better actors for the voices. Not to mention the poor audio quality.
So ugly graphics, terrible sounds and senseless illogical puzzles. Why, I wonder, did the game need 10 Gigs of hard disk space?
Don't even ask me about the German version. The translation was so bad that the dialogs didn't make any sense at all. Not that they did make much sense in the English version... The German voices, well, better don't ask. In the German version they also cut 'that' scene between Guybrush and Elaine, but I should be glad for that.
How did you solve the puzzle where you had to get the laxative and put it into Captain Thunderspit's grog? Not only was it pixel-hunting, it also took me ages to figure out that I had to put the vampire squirrel into Kenny's shoe to get the key to the fitness center first.