During his trip, Guybrush learns of the Marley family's greatest secret: a voodoo talisman known as the Ultimate Insult, which contains an insult so insidious, it destroys the spirit of those who hear it. As Elaine begins her campaign to recover her position, Guybrush hires navigator Ingacius Cheese in a game of insult arm-wrestling, meets again with two of his old 'friends', Carla and Otis, and heads out to Lucre Island to recover the Marley family heirlooms and obtain the legal documents to save her mansion. Charles presents himself as the lead candidate. The governorship is up for election, and suddenly a person known as Charles L. Here they find that Elaine has been declared officially dead, her position as governor has been revoked and her mansion is scheduled to be demolished. The game begins with Guybrush Threepwood and Elaine Marley returning to Mêlée Island from their honeymoon, which they embarked on in the epilogue of The Curse of Monkey Island. Monkey Kombat is a sub-game akin to rock-paper-scissors, where you need to memorize lines of 'monkey insults and retorts' which consist of per-game randomized compositions of 'monkey words' like 'oop', 'chee', 'ack' and 'eek'. In the second part of the game, the insult games are replaced by 'Monkey Kombat', the name being a parody of Mortal Kombat with a symbol to match. One of the hallmark aspects of the Monkey Island games, the insult swordfighting - the sword duels which were won by knowing the appropriate insults and responses - is briefly touched upon in the game as 'insult armwrestling', and in an unwinnable insult duel against Ozzie Mandrill.

The game is controlled entirely with the keyboard or alternatively with a joystick, making it the only non- point-and-click game in the Monkey Island series.Ī feature of the game are action-lines: Guybrush will glance at any items that can be interacted with the player can use 'Page Up' or 'Page Down' to select the item that he wants Guybrush to look at. Escape from Monkey Island is an adventure game that consists of dialogue with characters and solving puzzles.

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