He learns the art of Monkey Kombat from the "monkey prince of Monkey Island" and, upon restoring the hermit Herman Toothrot's memory, discovers that the old man is actually Elaine's missing grandfather, having contracted amnesia twenty years prior due to being pushed into a whirlpool off the coast of Australia by Ozzie. Feeling they might need Guybrush as a hostage, the two decide to dump him on Monkey Island.ĭespite temporary discouragement, Guybrush sets about making his escape. The two villains are revealed to be working together, Ozzie to rid of all pirates and turn the area into a resort and LeChuck out of debt to Ozzie for freeing him from the icy tomb and to use the Ultimate Insult to break Elaine and marry her. Upon returning home, he is ambushed by LeChuck and Ozzie Mandrill, who steal the pieces from him. As Elaine continues her campaign, Guybrush searches the Jambalaya and Knuttin Atoll islands and recovers the pieces of the Ultimate Insult. Charles is really the shape-shifting Demon Pirate LeChuck, having been freed from his ice prison of the last game and seeking the Ultimate Insult. He also winds up being framed for bank robbery by crook Peg-Nosed Pete at the hiring of the Australian land developer Ozzie Mandrill, but manages to prove his innocence.Īfter acquiring the legal deeds and returning to the manor, Guybrush and Elaine soon discover that Charles L.
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During his trip, Guybrush learns of the Marley family's greatest secret: a voodoo talisman known as the Ultimate Insult, which contains an insult so heinous, it destroys the spirit of those who hear it. As Elaine begins her campaign to recover her position, Guybrush hires navigator Ingacius Cheese in a game of insult arm-wrestling, meets again with two of his old "friends", Carla and Otis, and heads out to Lucre Island to recover the Marley family heirlooms and obtain the legal documents to save her mansion. Charles presents himself as the lead candidate. The governorship is up for election, and suddenly a person known as Charles L. Here they find that Elaine has been declared officially dead, her position as governor has been revoked and her mansion is scheduled to be demolished. The game begins with Guybrush Threepwood and Elaine Marley returning to Mêlée Island from their honeymoon, which they embarked on in the epilogue of The Curse of Monkey Island. Monkey Kombat is a sub-game akin to rock-paper-scissors, where the player needs to memorize lines of "monkey insults and retorts" which consist of per-game randomized compositions of "monkey words" like "oop", "chee", "ack" and "eek". In the second part of the game, the insult games are replaced by "Monkey Kombat", the name being a parody of Mortal Kombat with a symbol to match. One of the hallmark aspects of the Monkey Island games, the insult swordfighting - the sword duels which were won by knowing the appropriate insults and responses - is briefly touched upon in the game as "insult armwrestling", and in an unwinnable insult duel against Ozzie Mandrill. The game is controlled entirely with the keyboard or alternatively with a joystick, making it the only non-point-and-click game in the Monkey Island series.Ī feature of the game are action-lines: Guybrush will glance at any items that can be interacted with the player can use 'Page Up' or 'Page Down' to select the item that he wants Guybrush to look at. The game is now available on GOG.com and Steam.Įscape from Monkey Island is an adventure game that consists of dialogue with characters and solving puzzles.
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It was also the second and last game to use the GrimE engine, which was upgraded from its first use in Grim Fandango. Guybrush must find a way to restore Elaine to office, while uncovering a plot to turn the Caribbean into a tourist trap, headed by his nemesis LeChuck and an Australian conspirator Ozzie Mandrill.Įscape was the last of LucasArts' adventure games to be released. The game centers on the pirate Guybrush Threepwood, who returns home with his wife Elaine Marley after their honeymoon, to find her erroneously declared dead, and her office of governor up for election.
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It is the fourth game in the Monkey Island series and the first one to use 3D graphics. Escape from Monkey Island is a computer adventure game developed and released by LucasArts in 2000.