Once a cult brand Monkey Island came back! The makers of adventures episode duo Sam & Max, the inventor "series" of video games and the heirs of the golden period games stood to the occasion and created something that fans of the Monkey Island series may be with a clear conscience for his. No, can not fully developed, because we talk only about the first episode miniseries, which reveals to us the coming months.

The secret of Monkey Islands to set up with the Ron Gilbert, in cooperation with Tim Schafer (now sitting on Brutal Legend). Series fans will not really know what that secret is, but that's beside the point. It is about adventure Guybrush Threepwood, bad luck pirate who always wind in the eye and under the feet of logs. The hero usually fights for reasons of his love Elaine Marley and is measured from the LeChuckie, ill-pirate-zombie. Loaded with positive energy, adventure TV has already lasted four parts, followed by a tie-up. It seemed that no one can want to continue a series of piracy. And yet.

The first episode of Tales of Monkey Island starts with a dynamic - a scene we see a sea battle between the ship and the ship Guybrush Elaine, which took over control of LeChuck. Of course, during the first 15 minutes the game everything is complicated by the limits and involve voodoo magic hero finally lands on an unknown island - Flots Island - separated from its (now) wife, wealth, and the antagonist. What's worse, this island for many years is a trap for all travelers, because it winds around prevent her leaving. What to Guybrush. Just change the nature of the judgments and obtain the means of transport. And here there is only one moored in the port of the vessel Flots Island, the title for the first episode of Screaming Narwhal.

Tales of Monkey Island is a classic adventure without any new stuff. Much has to do with the recently issued Sam and Max adventures - in the end is the same engine. We see, therefore, as a simple but stylish 3D graphics, collect objects, solve puzzles, etc. With the latter can be different. There are fun puzzles, logic, but also completely irrational and at times frustrating. Go-game event that took me some 5 hours, of which a considerable part was devoted to finding a solution in classical times "crop". Unfortunately, the only way I found them trying everything on everything a little hurt.