Summary
The best Monkey Island game, and one of the best games period
The Good
Monkey Island 2 is what some would not believe, not only a worthy succesor to the first Monkey Island, but this one completely blows it out of the water. It's longer, funnier, and features the best puzzles I have ever seen in an adventure game hands down. The game has a slightly dark tone that most other comedy games so that makes it even more distinct. The music is amazing and rivals anything done today, it's that good. The graphics are excellent, all of them are much darker and distinct than the first game. I'd like to even mention the puzzles again, they are perfection. These are the best you can get. The entire game just lays the puzzles on you, there's usually about three or four different things you can solve at one time making the game seem very non-linear.
The Bad
There's one thing, I didn't like about the game and that is that it did not get the true sequel it deserved. Let me explain. There was supposed to be three MI games, a trilogy. The orignal developer never got to make the true third sequel, so the ending of the second game was never truly explained. So, the ending to MI2 is very...odd. And the entire Secret of Monkey Island, was supposed to be explained in the true 3rd game. No one really knows for sure what it is as the original developer has the secret locked away in his head. But, the main theory is that The Secret of Monkey Island is that it's not real, it's all in the imagination of Guybrush, a young kid walking around in an amusement park. Kind of like what the ending of MI2 shows.
The Bottom Line
A classic, the best Monkey Island, and one of the best games ever created. If you never played, track it down this instance.
