The Escapist:
Normally, when you're more than three quarters of the way through a game, you're able to decide whether it's good or bad, but we're four episodes into Telltale Game's Tales of Monkey Island series and it's still not clear whether the game - as the five episodes tell a single story - is worth your time and money. After a strong start with the first two episodes, the series seemed to stumble with Lair of the Leviathan, which was average at best, and sadly The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood is equally unimpressive, meaning that the final verdict on the series is going to go right down to the wire.
Character Evolution - Guybrush Threepwood
.... he was just so great in Monkey Island 1 and 2, design-wise.
... and then they went all cartoony with him for MI3, they went cartoony 3D with him in MI4, and they went butt-ugly redrawn sprite for the remakes of 1 and 2. Sadly.
There's some fan-art out there which shows how Guybrush SHOULD look when you do a HD-remake, which sticks true to the original design of the character while still looking great for todays' gamers.
Guybrush is such a brilliant character, but he hasn't been done justice by Lucasarts since Monkey Island 2. Sadly.
I like the how the remakes look. You can't possibly expect there to be a definitive 'remade Threepwood' when the first ones came out in early 90's. You could hardly tell certain pixels apart back then.
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