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There are few video game series as loved as the Monkey Island games. Developed on the SCUMM engine by Ron Gilbert, Tim Schafer, and Dave Grossman, the point-and-click adventure enjoyed several sequels in the 90’s, but fell out of the public eye as the genre moved out of the spotlight. With Telltale games’ revival of the Sam & Max series, rumblings of a Monkey Island return were started, and eventually came true at E3 2009. Mixed with the news of The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition's release and a slew of hard-to-find Lucasarts adventure titles hitting PCs in the near future, the stage seemed set for a full blown Point-and-Click revival. If the renicance is truely upon us, the first one through the door was to be Guybrush Threepwood. Does Telltale do for the Monkey Island series what they did for Sam and Max, or have they plundered more than they can carry?

The story picks up immediately after the never released (or actually developed) Monkey Island 5, and begins with the undead pirate LeChuck preforming an unholy voodoo ceremony on a ship, while Guybrush's wife watches helplessly. Heroically, Guybrush Threepwood, Mighty Pirate, rushes into action with a powerful, voodoo-fighting scimitar. Sadly, due to a few complications, Guybrush had to make a few substitutions in the recipe, replacing fizzy root beer with fizzy root grog. It doesn't go well. Instead of slaying LeChuck, the would-be fatal blow turns him human, infecting Guybrush’s hand with the “Pox of Lechuck.”