Ron Gilbert left Lucasarts around this time and started his own company called Humongous Entertainment which are well known for their point 'n' click adventures aimed at children such as Putt Putt and Pajama Sam.

While the sequel was also loved by the critics, it was deemed a commercial failure by Lucasarts. In this adventure, Guybrush goes in search of a treasure called 'Big Whoop' but has to also contend with a vengeful LeChuck.

The game was a critical and commercial success and a sequel was released only a year later called Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. Guybrush then goes on a quest to defeat LeChuck and save Elaine. Guybrush falls in love with the island's governor, Elaine Marley, but she is soon abducted by the undead pirate LeChuck. In the game, you play the role of a wannabe pirate called Guybrush Threepwood who arrives at a place called Melee Island. The game was heavily inspired by the historical fantasy novel 'On Stranger Tides' and 'The Pirates of the Carribean' ride at Disneyland so while the game is set during the Golden Age of Piracy, it also has a lot of supernatural elements such as voodoo spells and ghost pirates. One of the early success stories for Lucasarts was the 1990 point 'n' click adventure The Secret of Monkey Island designed by Ron Gilbert, Dave Grossman and Tim Schafer. The Not So Secret History of Monkey Islandīefore we go into the review proper, it's important to explain how we got to Return to Monkey Island in the first place (especially important to those of you who have never played a Monkey Island game before, although I suspect this percentage of the players would be quite low).īack in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the genre of point 'n' click adventures were all the rage and while it turns out many developers wanted to get in on the action, the two powerhouses in this arena were Sierra On-Line and Lucasarts (formerly known as Lucasfilm). You can't seem to ever escape insult swordfighting

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