"Invent a new type of key from jellybabies and a screwdriver." - Tom Baker liked this

That was an awesome anchor banter, i'm glad you didn't skip it Jon.

This game is my first memory as a gamer my dad bought a new Pc with a Sound blaster in 1991 and a beautiful box with a cardboard game disk with a funny anti-piracy system. I was a four-year-old playing in my dad's lap. Now he is retired but we played this game together now in my house. And my dad and I were younger again. Thanks for being so awesome, dad.

Jon, I BEG you, play the first games. Full series. You will love them and we will watch!!

The mop was the light saber building from star wars with a small twist on words loved it

That poor tree... Threepwood!! You were the chosen one!! You were supposed to save the chef's dream, not destroy it!

here is something sad on a meta level. The main theme in this game is the joy of sharing a story. After the game was announced on April 1st the lead designer started sharing screen shots of the game on his blog, the negative reaction to the art style got so bad that he out right told the fans "I no longer find joy in sharing." And stopped talking about the game in general.

My only complaint is that the guy at the lookout didn't say "YIKES! Don't sneak up on me like that" with Guybrush responding "Errr, I'm over this way"

While I differ with your opinion on the point and click games, I respect that they don’t offer a whole lot of path choices and you don’t find them very enjoyable. Thanks for showing it off anyway, it’s good that I now know this thing exists!

Cant help but wish that this was The Curse of Monkey Island

Oh my god this follows from the theme park ending of Monkey Island 2 that's hilarious. 9:12 just to be clear, it is also almost total nonsense. Please do not recite these facts about anchors anywhere else. They are not true. Well mostly not true. I think the shape stuff is correct for some anchors (though note anchors come in many diverse shapes) but anchors were not originally weapons, etc.

Pleeeeeeeaze play the original 1 and 2! They're the best!

I love the "congratulate myself about double monocle" prompt XD

To point out, the cook talking about the mop is a parody of Obi Wan telling Luke about Lightsabers in Star Wars A New Hope. "More civilised than a blaster, an elegant weapon for a more peaceful time" (iirc)

This music really takes me back :') I grew up with this series :D Watched my dad play them as a kid and did my best to play along lol He had all the ol LucasArts classics. And now that I'm an adult, I have all of them along with whatever remastered versions are available lol

Loving the art style

Loved hearing the way your brain processed all the senselessness that was Monkey Island.. Shame the graphics went in this direction though, classic graphics, slightly updated, would have looked much better

You should play the whole series. They are great

Monkey island.... I first played this on the Amiga 500+. Now I do feel old.

Very enjoyable watching someone new to the series playing this. Can we get a MATN playthrough of the previous games?

The anchor scene just reminding me why I love Jon so much

"Bloody adventure games!" 😂

Damnit Jon! You missed the star wars reference in the mop segment! There's a reference to A new Hope, Attack of the Clones and the 2003 star wars series all In that segment

There is a great modern remaster of the first three monkey island games they are all hilarious. I'm fairly sure the Pirates of the Caribbean movies were largely inspired by Monkey Island.

I actually like the art style, it's reminiscent of different aspects of the earlier games. It's got the DOS saturation from the first 2, with the proportions referencing Curse, the hair is very Escape, and the overall aesthetic is new which is basically par for the course here. I also like the return to form here, I really didn't like the WASD 3D thing the last two games had going. But the literal child in this one is the miss.

Oh my, please play “Maniac Mansion” next. It’s definitely the fnv of point and click lucasfilm games. The c64 version is probably best, but they ported it to a lot of new consoles if you download “day of the tentacle” and go on the computer in Weird Ed’s room.

I cried at the end. The game transported me back to childhood and it just felt so good to be back, then the end threw me back into current life The last puzzle was the same as the very first puzzle you'd experience playing MI, the copy protection in the box you matched the faces to get the game to work

I remember the first Monkey Island. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

This game looks amazing. The originals were soooo good for their time

Love this.

I love the “Scumm Bar” - the game engine of the old LucasArts point and click games was called SCUMM(tm) Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion

Its best to have completed the first 2, really. The secret wont make much sense otherwise.

Jon...you just got out sidequested...by a game. I love the fact that a game made of 99.9% sidequests is making you slightly annoyed.

Same this one to watch after I finish the game my self

Loved these games as a kid back in the 90's (and the newer ones are fun too)... but this art style is so overwhelmingly unpleasant to look at, I doubt I'll ever play it.

Thanks for trying out this game. I remember it fondly from childhood.

I completed the game a few days back but watching this I realise that there are more than 1 way to solve some of the puzzles and that some things are randomised each playthrough!

The Monkey Island series is, in fact, as good as it gets.

I was just riding along, half-paying attention. I had almost forgotten what I was listening to, and now I'm kind of sad this isn't some 10 year old's hour long podcast about maritime anchorage fun facts.

Dude I remember playing this game when I was a kid! I enjoyed some of it but I could never finish it because the puzzles were too hard for me 😅

Return is a fantastic game by the original creators of the first two games and is a spiritual number 3 in the series. It plays on the actual point of the first two stories in a great way with a good dose of nostalgia.

jelly babies and a screwdriver sounds like a dr who reference

If Jon wants to play another point and click type game I suggest Procession to Calvary. I think he'd enjoy that one.

Really Interesting --- Really Jon ?

I really need to get around to this series at some point. Sitting in my Steam Collection for years.

Oh no, missed out on stealing the mob when he was distracted with the book...

Huh, was all that history on the anchor true? Cause that's really cool to learn if so.

I remember playing the original back in 1990 still play it now to be honest so I have loved every moment of this since it came out 32 years later and it still has the feel. I even love the fact they have brought back some of the original puzzles. I know your not into your point and click adventure but I am sure you would change your mind if you gave the original monkey island a try. That and you would also get some of the jokes that it sounded like you missed.

Oh I hoped that you would give this a try - well done!

You should get monkey island 1 & 2 special edition. They are the original games with updated graphics but you can whenever you want switch to the OG graphics. They are really great games.

Nice

Another point and click adventure game I’d suggest is Broken Age, it has a really nice story line and a dual protagonist setup with the two really being needed to work together towards the end, the world building, art style, and puzzles are pretty satisfying. I’d highly suggest picking it up and giving it a try

You've never played the originals? These need to be series asap!

THE BIRTHDAY STREAM PAID OFF! WE HAVE A NEW ENDCARD!

damn it, man. how are you so CONSISTENT with these banger title puns

The first thing this game does is make a joke out of the weird ass ending of 2 Thats brilliant

Wait, this is a new one? I thought it was another remake. I can't remember what all these are named.

I'm betting you need to make a cracker with the cracker mix you currently have, and give the completed cracker to the parrot.

More please

The poor animals noooo

This should be fun!

The original monkey island was one of the first games I ever played on a computer. It's still a favorite series with the 3rd game being by far my favorite. I've got to admit I really disliked the art style when I first saw it, but watching you play has warmed me up to it, for the environments anyway, still think the people look pretty bad.

With all due respect, you must play all games.

Weirdly gives me Ren and Stimpy vibes.

I'm already at monkey Island in the game

I demand to see more of this.

I am absolutely the sort of gamer they wrote that anchor lecture for.

i love this

hmmm yes

The imagining of this reminds me of the 2015 King's Quest game. All of those old Sierra and LucasArts games from the 80s and 90s are my all time favorites!

Interesting attempt to revive the series. One of the games (Not the last one) had a "twist ending" where it just revealed a family at an amusement park, thus the opener and framing device. Things like the "swordmaster" dueling is a callback to the games where "swordfights" were determined by wordplay and punsmithing. You actually had to go around collecting proper insults, jokes, etc to use against your opponents. Probably what lets me down the most about it however is just the Ren and Stimpy inspired artstyle they have going on though. It's very... tonally off for me. Monkey Island was never really a 'Gross Out" series or anything surreal so much as just lighthearted and comedic. So it feels really weird to have so much of the game doing that sort of thing.

The return of Guybrush is a welcome sight indeed. Yes the artstyle is different to the old games.. But so long as the voiceacting, hilarity and music remains tremendous.. It could look like live action for all i care. Let's go find that secret.. :)

poor jon if there is monkey in the answer just say it

Kind of sad Jon missed the Lightsaber reference in the mop building spiel

As a 30 year veteran of the series, instantly enamoured of Michael Land's score on my old Amiga 500, I found this installment of the series to be surprisingly so-so. On a par with Monkey Island 4, for those that have played that one. The art style is kinda off, too many built-in hint systems and many "you're old and out of touch" jokes. I already know that I'm old and out of touch. I bought this game for nostalgia, not self-pity, but that's what the writing seemingly keeps striving for. I *love* the old Lucas Arts style point 'n' clicks, they are the bread and butter of my gaming life, but I'd give this game a 6/10. Mostly for the voice acting (apart from the new LeChuck) and Michael Land's score.

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And he completely misses the Star Wars reference with the beginning of the Mop Talk . .

Please play "Day of the tentacle"🙏🙏

Those beautifully ugly closeups remind me of The Marvelous Misadventures Of Flapjack

I think you would absolutely love Curse of Monkey Island (the third one)

The close up animations really give me ren and stimpy vibes it's good

Weird! Just this afternoon I listened to Jason Schreier's podcast and his one last thing was this game.

Jon, you got a cracker mix, not the cracker itself. You need to read the instructions on how to make a cracker.

Sheesh, judging by some of the comments Monkey Island fans are pretty toxic.

Douglas Adams made an adventure game :)

2:56 I'm sensing that somebody played the Discworld games.

I loved point and click adventure games as a kid. I only ever played the first two Monkey Island games, but they were a lot of fun. Since others are offering their completely unsolicited genre suggestions, I'll toss in the excellent Grim Fandango. I played the PS4 remaster about a year ago and it holds up surprisingly well.

How the hell have you never played Monkey Island? Furthermore, why the hell are you playing this game before playing the original? There's even a pretty great complete remaster of the original on Steam already. You really should play MI1 and 2 first.

If Jon want to look at another pont and click game, then I would like to see Unavowed. A bit more story focused than puzzle, and there are definate choices that affect the story (including different companions having different solutions). It also felt much more intuitive through most of the puzzles.

Dude, Jon, mate. Not playing any Monkey Island...how did you manage that? The first is amazing, the second is brilliant...the 3rd? A bit underwhelming. And there's more. But the first 2 are well worth your time.

MATN should make merch with "Dear oh flippin' dear". I'd buy it.

Did you play anything before fallout 3?

Based

I remember playing the original games, but I have zero nostalgia for the franchise. Which is good, because Jon has rarely the "appropriate" respect for well-loved franchises ;)

i just beat this on hard mode, going back in on easy mode to get a couple achievements. it is sad that you haven't played the other games though, like half the jokes are gonna FLY over your head.

I get that the girl with the anchor is supposed to be funny (and maybe interesting for some) but she nearly put me to sleep too. Edit: Also, I really don´t appreciate almost puking from that Scurvydog and "not ketchup". Guess I shouldn´t be watching this near midnight, while sick. :/

*listens to Jon's description of the game* Sooo pirate Popeye?

you are 14 mintes late jon >.

wait never played monkey island i sense a series , or me reporting you to the internet.....

MY question is, if this seemed interesting to him why the HECK is he playing a sequal to a series hes never played!? What are you doing Jon! ((I actually dont know if its a sequel only that i heard it was. Sorry if its not and im wrong))