"How appropriate. You fight like a cow."

Monkey island is a series of adventure games. An adventure game is a game where it focuses mainly on the story.You need to solve puzzles, and if you get stuck there are always hints to help you out.

The first three games are :

The Secret Of Monkey Island

Where Guybrush Threepwood proves himself to three pirate captains on Melee island to become a pirate.On his journey he meets governor Elaine Marley and falls in love with her.At the same time the ghost pirate LeChuck is also in love with Elaine and Guybrush gets help from the Voodoo Lady to kill him

Monkey Island LeChuck's Revenge

Where Guybrush, holding on to a rope with a treasure chest in his hand tells Elaine how he got there searching for Big Whoop, a famous treasure

The Curse Of Monkey Island.

Where Guybrush takes a ring(not knowing it had a curse on it)and proposes to Elaine. When she puts the ring on she turns into a statue.Guybrush asks the Voodoo Lady for a cure and she tells hem to find an uncursed ring which had a diamond of the same size

 

 Monkey Island poster illustrated by Me

The main characters in these games are :

Guybrush Threepwood,the main character in the game who's always treasure hunting or saving Elaine from LeChuck.His main talent is holding his breath for ten minutes.He claims to be a mighty pirate which he is not even the slightest bit of.

Elaine Marley,the governor of melee island and Guybrush's Wife from MI 3 onwards

Stan,the guy who sells used merchandise such as ships,coffins and crypts

The Voodoo Lady,who helps Guybrush along his journey and appears in every game

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LeChuck, the ghost pirate,zombie pirate,etc.He also loves Elaine and tries to take her away from Guybrush.

The other characters are

Murray, a skull who thinks he's the most fearsome thing on Earth

 

Mad Marty, A laundry guy who's deaf

 

The men of low moral fiber(pirates)and their pet rat

 

Otis,a guy who was in prison for some reason

Carla, a sword fighter, and Meathook who are part of your crew in MI 1

Van Helgen,a guy who plays the banjo,McMutton,a barber and Cutthroat Bill are your crew in MI 3

LeChimp,a monkey ship captain

Kenny,the lemonade guy with the bottomless mug policy

Blondebeard a chicken seller

Wally a cartographer who later becomes a pirate

Herman Toothrot a guy living on Monkey Island

and Largo LaGrande, LeChuck's right hand man

The games had some tough parts but most of it was easy.  For example, in MI 3 the part where you need to revert your size with the ice cream was illogical and I needed to use hints for it

In the games you can do what you can do in any adventure game you play, like interacting with items, talking with others and asking for hints.

There is one thing that there isn't in the other games and that is,Insult Sword fighting.In Insult Sword Fighting, the guy you're fighting says an insult and you need to answer with the correct response.For example if he says "You fight like a dairy farmer!" the response is  "How appropriate, you fight like a cow!". You get different insults and responses by fighting other pirates.

The graphics are cartoony in the later games and pixelated in the older ones.

I found the game fun because of Stan, Murray the demonic skull who wants to take over the world (my favorite character, by the way)and the overall ridiculousness of the game.

Many interesting things happened in the games. In MI 2,you nail down Stan in a coffin and in MI 3 he reappears out of the same coffin.In Tales Of Monkey Island (a later series of Monkey Island which is in 3D), Murray reappears when I had least expected it. I never thought that he would make an appearance. When you see him he's a skull as usual but you attach him on to a body later.

Monkey island was published by LucasArts.The designers ere Ron Gilbert,who also worked on maniac mansion,Tim Schafer, and Dave Grossman.

You will like the series if you like humoruos cartoons, pirates and adventure games.