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The Mystery of Monkey Island

Blog Posts by Paul Franzen on September 1, 2003

...years later, LucasArts has released the fourth (and possibly final) installment to the Monkey Island series: Monkey Island 4: Escape from Monkey Island. This time around, Guybrush has arrived at...
The 2009 GameCola Videogame Awards

Columns by GameCola on January 14, 201017

...better than anybody thought they could. Runners Up: Flower, 1 vs 100 Last Year’s Winner: LittleBigPlanet Best Story Tales of Monkey Island (PC, Wii-WW) Paul Franzen: The Monkey Island games...
Tales of Monkey Island: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal (PC)

Reviews by Paul Franzen on January 4, 20108

I took four pages of notes while playing Tales of Monkey Island: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal with my sigfig, to help me when writing my eventual review of the...
Tales of Monkey Island: Lair of the Leviathan (PC)

Reviews by Paul Franzen on January 26, 20102

The awesomely-acronymed Tales of Monkey Island: Lair of the Leviathan is—if you haven’t been paying attention to the adventure games scene, videogame news in general, or GameCola.net—the third in a...
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge (PC)

Reviews by Carl Houghton on October 1, 20083

...ensures that no ship can enter or leave the island. The storyline weaves and twists its way off the island, takes Guybrush across the tri-island area, and, as the game...
Monkey Island 2: Special Edition Announced

News Posts by Paul Franzen on March 11, 20101

...new voice-acting, and the old-school, pixelated, extreme hardcore edition of Monkey Island II. But that’s not all! Since this is an adventure game, and since it’s not the 90s anymore...
Tales of Monkey Island: Rise of the Pirate God (PC)

Reviews by Paul Franzen on February 12, 20104

So, uhh…hey guys. Man, this is kind of awkward. I guess I’d better just get it over with. If you’ve been following my reviews of Tales of Monkey Island—Telltale Games’s...
Tales of Monkey Island: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal (PC)

Reviews by Michael Gray on February 23, 20101

...The jokes are super funny! WRONG Monkeys and pirates are involved somehow. CORRECT Monkeys and pirates do appear in this game. There are fourteen monkeys and five or so pirates....
Tales of Monkey Island: The Siege of Spinner Cay (PC)

Reviews by Paul Franzen on January 18, 201012

...If you were a weenie and didn’t highlight the text, let’s just leave it at this: this puzzle makes the goddamn monkey wrench puzzle from Monkey Island II seem totally...
The Secret of Monkey Island (PC)

Reviews by Carl Houghton on March 1, 20085

...to be found on Melee Island. You get onto Monkey Island itself and the tune helps make you realize that the game means business now, and if you thought it...