Jake

I think part of it is Maniac Mansion doesn’t give the impression of having an art style to begin with. Obviously it does, every pixel placed is a deliberate choice, but it’s definitely pushing less deliberate purely stylistic choices than Monkey Island 1 or 2 did. There was more space available from MM to DOTT to establish a style at all, while I think MI1 and 2 had a very deliberate style that they had to choose to move away from with Curse. I voted for MI2, but love MI1 as well, and find Curse to be a visual/tonal delight that I just like hanging out in.

Going to start the forum drama early here by saying that I don't think we should move threads out of the archive but instead create new threads that link to old ones, if the desire is to point people to old conversations.