Well. Monkey Island. It’s a series. A very enjoyable series, a truly pioneering one that revolutionized the adventure genre (Ahoy has an amazing video about it), and featured some truly amazing games that not only had interesting puzzles with weird but also weirdly logical logic, but comedy to go along with it. Namely, I find the first 3 games to be just about the best games in the genre.

The third game is also where the first 2 games’ main creator, Ron Gilbert, was out of the picture, with the rest of the series being juggled between different teams, including TellTale back when they actually made games that had gameplay. But Ron is back for this one. Ron did act like a fucking baby when us PLEBS told him that we didn’t like the graphics, and that’s USUALLY a sign that the game will suck when the creators start insulting the fanbase… But this is Monkey Island, and it’s actually the original creator of the series rather than some doofus that wants to just outright ruin it (as was, say, Saints Row), so I figured… it’s certainly worth giving a chance to anyways.

So let’s see if it’s one of the rare good revival of a classic, mostly-dead series!

I didn’t quite get all the reviews out that I wanted since the last post. Xenoblade 3’s review has been in half-written form for a bit, I just finished Rollerdrome, I finished Azure Striker Gunvolt 3 like 2 weeks ago, I’m not done with Super Bullet Break and Blossom Tales 2 which I started a bit ago… I need to start actually getting stuff out. Also I started Soul Hacker 2 yesterday but obviously that’s got a while to go before I can review it. Reviews for a bunch of stuff, coming soon, I’m trying 😀

September actually has some games. Which is nice. A lot of curious, interesting ones that might end up being good, but as far as big heavy hitters, there ain’t much. So here I’m highlighting: 19 Multiplats, 2 Switch games, 2 PC games and the dumbest PS5 release yet. I’m getting something between 5 and 9 of these, I dunno.

*EDIT 08/30: ADDED A MULTIPLAT GAME*

Let’s go!

Disclaimer: I only list games that I think are worth mentioning. This includes games I’m personally interested in, games that will likely be popular, highly advertised games, some more niche stuff I may notice, and such. Not just games I care about myself, I highlight as much as I think makes sense. And of course, I can’t see the future, so I may be missing games and I may be listing games that may get delayed.