Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge: Special Edition

LeChuck's Revenge, the sequel that delivered on the wackiness and difficulty. More timed events and more wordplay that means that a non-english speaking native keeps you busy for days... or years if it wasn't for the internet. I'm especially referring to the Monkey wrench puzzle. The monkey wrench puzzle is that to open a secret tunnel behind a waterfall you need to get a banana to hypnotise a monkey and take him to the pump and use him as a wrench, aka a monkey wrench. Well good for you that gets that witty word pun, but for a non-english native that is almost complete gibberish. There's a reason why the safest strategy is to use everything on everything.

The Swedish version of this trolling is to utter the phrase "Får får får? Nej, får får inte får, får får lamm" (The joke being is that is says "Does sheep get sheep? No, sheep doesn't get sheep, sheep gets lamb"

Of course the biggest puzzle that stopped me from progressing the longest time was after escaping Phat Island jail. I couldn't leave since they had taken my map I needed to show the boat captain and it was gone. I restarted several times as a kid until I figured out how to get my stuff back. I just opened the envelopes that was in the prison with my name on it. How was I supposed to know that? Or I might just be that stupid. The special edition then, nice looks, great music and the voice cast superb. Problem is that they changed the control scheme again meaning I have yet to learn it again and the timing on certain puzzle makes me prefer the old graphics since I at least can pull that off. Especially at the end of the game as LeChuck hunts you in the tunnels.

Story, after besting LeChuck and losing Elaine Guybrush is searching for the treasure of Big Woop. This hunt takes him to Scabb Island were he encounters LeChuck's right hand man Largo Lagrande which sets up the return of LeChuck and a race to find Big Woop to escape his terrible revenge. He meets old friends like the Voodoo Lady, pirates of low moral fiber and Elaine while encountering new ones like Wally. Poor Wally. You steal his glasses, spits at him, get him captured and so forth. Poor guy indeed. Also, the ending is a real twist that puts the whole series upside down. A pity the original creators left after this, but the game following this was in my opinion the greatest of the original three games.