Bit late to the party here, but I just burned through chapters 3 and 4 and think they're easily the strongest two of the series thus far. Chapter 3 was very satisfying from a gameplay perspective, whereas chapter 4 was fantastic on a story level I thought and I loved the overall atmosphere of Flotsam by night. About time we went inside a damn bar!
I personally don't get all this criticism about the
spoiler:deaths
at all — I thought they did a great job of injecting some higher stakes into the story without being
too dramatic about it. Besides, did anyone at any point really think the
spoiler:deaths would be permanent?
I certainly never did, even as
spoiler:Morgan clearly seemed to die.
Of course now watch it turn out that last one
was permanent.
I think this latest episode really brought home to me how quality this series has actually been. The engine seems to be at its best handling these darker scenes, with the aesthetics being
way above EMI in my opinion. And also not only did this episode feature some great music of its own, but it also reused some of the best stuff from the previous ones.
At this point I can definitely say Tales of Monkey Island sits well above EMI as an overall game for me, although as I suspected it hasn't come particularly close to knocking any of the original trilogy off the top three seats.
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