Review in progress:
The art style is hideous, the puzzles are simplistic (most of the difficulty comes from pixel hunting and backtracking), and the story is weak. Some items can only be interacted with after an arbitrary story trigger, which gets tedious. Return to Monkey Island's plot leans way too heavily on nostalgia and has almost no new ideas of its own. Elaine's character has been completely butchered. She acts like a completely different person in this game. Guybrush continues to act much more stupid and mean-spirited than in the original, to the point where you wonder why anyone even puts up with him. The ending is somehow worse than 2's. It's not clever and feels like yet another cop-out. The characters acting off-brand isn't justified by the twist, either.
The art style is hideous, the puzzles are simplistic (most of the difficulty comes from pixel hunting and backtracking), and the story is weak. Some items can only be interacted with after an arbitrary story trigger, which gets tedious. Return to Monkey Island's plot leans way too heavily on nostalgia and has almost no new ideas of its own. Elaine's character has been completely butchered. She acts like a completely different person in this game. Guybrush continues to act much more stupid and mean-spirited than in the original, to the point where you wonder why anyone even puts up with him. The ending is somehow worse than 2's. It's not clever and feels like yet another cop-out. The characters acting off-brand isn't justified by the twist, either.