I’m sure anyone reading this text has already glanced over to the right and seen that I graded this game a C. Let me clarify this immediately: Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge is among the greatest games ever made. It is one of the most tightly-designed, brilliantly written, timeless adventure games out there, and just might be my favorite sequel to anything, ever. If you depend on arbitrary scores to make your purchasing decisions, know that Monkey Island 2, as a game, is easily an A+. If you enjoyed the first one, I heartily recommend picking up its sequel.
The game itself is irrelevant to this review. I am instead approaching this as a review of Monkey Island 2: Special Edition as a package. Think of it as a DVD versus a movie, if that helps — rather than focus on the original work, I am going to focus on the presentation, the new features, and the overall “specialness” of this Special Edition, which is a much more valuable use of our time.
