

There are no gags for incorrectly combined inventory items.

The vast majority of backgrounds have only one or two hotspots, and most of these will generate an ‘I don’t see anything special about that’ when inspected. First of all, there’s almost nothing to ‘look at’ in any scene. The Secret of Monkey Island is a surprisingly empty adventure game. The love theme resembles How Could I Be Such a Fool by The Mothers of Invention.However, there’s danger in riding the nostalgia rollercoaster.The circus music has a part which sounds like the music typically used in circus settings, from Entrance of the Gladiators by Julius Fučík.They meet once (after he's just broken into and trashed her mansion no less), have a brief conversation, then suddenly the next time they run into each other they're acting like Sickening Sweethearts and declaring undying love! Like the rest of the game, the whole thing is played very tongue-in-cheek, complete with a sappy score and the voice actors in the Special Edition giving a melodramatic performance, so most players don't mind. Strangled by the Red String: Guybrush and Elaine.They also completely left out the Visible Invisibility on LeChuck's ship because the Genesis hardware can't properly handle transparency. The graphics are also watered down and the game runs annoyingly slow in many places (the SCUMM Bar being a particularly bad offender). Porting Disaster: The Sega CD port of the game not only has the issue of requiring the player to navigate a PC-optimized point and click interface with a controller (which goes every bit as well as you might think), it suffers from annoying amounts of Loads and Loads of Loading as it constantly stops to get conversation and sound data in the middle of the game.
THE SECRET OF MONKEY ISLAND MIDI PC
Additionally, of the original releases, which one is the best? Is it the more cartoony pushed-to-its-limits 16-color EGA version? Is it the later 256-color VGA version? Is it the CD version that leaves behind the old MIDI music and simplifies the UI? Is it the Amiga version that makes use of its sound capabilities and looks similar to the VGA version? Nobody really seems to agree which one is the best, and even more debates stem out of which sound card the game is best played with, some even arguing for something as minimalist as the PC speaker!.Many fans found the cartoony character designs too much of a departure from the realistic graphics employed in the original. Broken Base: The Special Edition, specifically its art style.

It plays no role in the plot, and is never brought up again.

He also picks up items he could not normally pick up and performs actions that are not available to the player.
