Having been unaware of the Monkey Island franchise until very recently, I was pleasantly surprised by this wonderful "HD" version of the 1990 original. Each puzzle you solve gives you a I can't believe it's taken me three years in getting around to playing this gem of a game. It's a short(ish, depending on your puzzle-solving skills) game, but well worth the $10 you'll shell out for it.
I can't believe it's taken me three years in getting around to playing this gem of a game. So for those reasons I wouldn't recommend it to everyone but if you like to put your brain at work (and laugh every now and then) then The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition is a great option for you. It's a good remake of a good game at an affordable price, but carrying the same flaws as the original, no new content and (like every puzzle based game) without replay value. Depending on your logic/luck the game will last between 5 and 15 hours, sometimes it may be frustrating but thanks to the joke all around it will never be boring. Some of them are too unrealistic in my opinion (aka I found the solution trying everything that I could instead of logic items).
Monkey Island is a classic point and click adventure game, a genre that has almost completely disappeared in the last years (apart from a few indies), therefore if you like the genre you don't have a lot of options and Monkey Island is one of them, and lucky you, it's a good one with very nice hand painted graphics instead of the old version the rest of the game is more or less identical Monkey Island is a classic point and click adventure game, a genre that has almost completely disappeared in the last years (apart from a few indies), therefore if you like the genre you don't have a lot of options and Monkey Island is one of them, and lucky you, it's a good one with very nice hand painted graphics instead of the old version the rest of the game is more or less identical and that's a good thing as the humour is still pretty funny and the puzzles are what you were looking for when buying this kind of game.