The story begins in a distinctly Princess Bride style, which feels about right for a series that has already pilfered plenty from it. It’s like being in the reading-room for a long-cancelled sitcom, yet the chemistry between the actors is still bubbling away. The tone is as irreverent and self-deprecating as we remember, and the interactions between familiar characters – Threepwood and Elaine, Threepwood and LeChuck – have the intense warmth of correctness and believability. The voice actors are all the same or near-as-dammit. This isn’t a change of tack or a wacky digression: this is constructed with a stupendous amount of love for the characters and series. Return to Monkey Island feels every bit the continuation of the series. In the larger sense, we needn’t have worried.
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