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It’s not that they’re particularly deep or complex, of course, just perfectly pitched for this freewheeling style of game. So many games have been spoilt by utterly atrocious voice acting – Dawn of War, anyone? – that it’s really refreshing to come across a game that is actively bettered by the voice-overs. The characters are all excellent, and more than that, the voice acting is wonderful. If they don’t perpetuate it yet again in episode four, I’ll eat my parrot.īut that’s a minor gripe. It worked so well it’s now seen as par for the course. What is it with this? I blame the very first ‘Secret of Monkey Island’ game, where to prove yourself as a mighty pirate you needed to complete four tests. Nevertheless there are still the usual touchstones to fall back on to perpetuate the Monkey Island themes – recurring characters, oddball comedy, ludicrous puzzles… and the developers’ inexplicable insistence that every puzzle needs to see you gathering together the four whatsits in order to progress. In this third episode of the fifth game in the series, Guybrush’s adventures continue in an unusual, mostly-situated-within-a-gigantic-sea-creature kind of a way. It’s no surprise, really, because Lucasarts’ creativity and imagination seem to be drafted from a bottomless well. And one of the most recognisable videogame characters this side of Lara Croft.