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1 hour ago, ThunderPeel2001 said:

I think Fate of Atlantis is seriously overrated. Lousy voice acting (thankfully can be turned off). Clunky dialogue. Banal story. Ugly backgrounds.

 

The idea that it would make a great movie is utterly absurd to me. Almost nothing interesting happens!

 

There, I said it!

 

 

Nothing says Indiana Jones and adventure like hearing dialogue like  “Kerner! What a slimy toad!” 🤣

 

(Also your walkthrough got me through the tough spots in the game, so I have to give credit where it’s due)

[Return to Monkey Island]

I think the perfect gameplay trailer would be Guybrush doing wrong solutions on a puzzle so we only get to hear Dominic say three lines: 

 

“I’m not picking that up”

 

”I can’t use it”

 

”hmm no”

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1 hour ago, Udvarnoky said:

The Mysts of Time Marsh segment is another example of this: you pretty much have to write those directions down or deal with the aggravation of making Guybrush bust out his inventory (which means waiting for a slow animation of Guybrush slamming his rowing stick into the marsh) every time you raft onto a new screen. There should have just been a key assigned to bring that up during this section. There are a few areas in EMI where it feels like the need to ship by Thanksgiving deprived it of that last little layer of user-friendliness that could have made a substantial difference.

Oh I forgot about the Mysts of Time! That went on way too long, and the tank controls would change direction when on a new screen and send you into the wrong direction too quickly and then have to start over. 
 

Now that I look back more on it, There are a lot of EMI puzzles that could be in the running for “Worst non-Gabriel Knight 3 puzzle in an Adventure game”.

 

 

[Return to Monkey Island]

9 hours ago, Remi said:

I would go as far as to say ReMI's PR campaign has been... somewhat flawed. :~

 

Got a good Marius video out of it, though!

I do agree with this, partially because I’m still recovering from the sting of sitting through “Devolver presents Loud Noises™“ without an MI trailer. I’m hoping we get something tangible soon. 
 

Side note, the “I wonder what happens” series by Marius was the highlight of waiting through the Tales season. 

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Here are some of my hot takes:

 

- EMI was the funniest Lucasarts game. 

 

- The shopkeeper’s vault puzzle in MI1, and the Vista Point boulder puzzle in MI4 are far worse puzzles than Monkey Kombat. 

 

- Tales of Monkey Island episodes 4 and 5 are the best acts in any Monkey Island game. 

- I would welcome an Infernal Machine remaster before a Fate of Atlantis remaster.