The Curse of Monkey Island 1997

Is it still worth playing?

LucasArts' 1997 point and click adventure for Windows, on the SCUMM engine, directed by Larry Ahern and Jonathan Ackley. Guybrush Threepwood tries to lift a curse from his love, Elaine Marley, while the undead pirate LeChuck menaces him once again. The verb menu is replaced by a coin popup with a hand, a skull and a parrot, and the inventory is a chest where you drag items onto others to combine them. Right click does the obvious action. A Mega Monkey mode adds more puzzles, and chapter three has ship combat. It was the first in the series on CD ROM and with voice acting, and the last LucasArts game on SCUMM. A simplified interface and a hard mode option still make its puzzles easy to approach today.