Tales of Monkey Island Episode One
I love the Monkey Island games so it only took a very limited thumbs up from the press for me to get on board with the new series. Episode 1 is generally in the fine Monkey Island tradition and less annoying that some of the other Telltale games.
The puzzle format is generally of the accomplish three tasks variety (familiar from Sam and Max) and there is a jungle puzzle reminiscent of the earlier games. For the most part it was fun and mildly puzzling but about halfway through I ground to halt and had to look for cheats twice.
The answers were that I had failed to click on something in an earlier scene and that I was doing something in the wrong order. Both felt disappointing in terms of feedback the game was giving me, particularly the wrong sequence issue which would have been simple to solve.
There were also two occasions when I did end up trying to combine everything in my inventory and using everything in my inventory with all clickable locations.
Overall though there was enough of the magic to make me look forward to the next episode.
