GENRE
	Adventure
	DEVELOPER
	Telltale Games
	PUBLISHER
	Telltale Games
	NUMBER OF PLAYERS
	1
	WI-FI ENHANCED
	No
	DS COMPATIBLE
	No
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The second chapter of Tales of Monkey Island, named The Siege of Spinner Cay, continues where the first chapter left off. In the first chapter, Guybrush Threepwood dumbfoundedly let loose a sea-sickening string of voodoo pox by untamingly mixing a recipe to help destroy villain LeChuck and rescue Elaine. However, this blasted Guybrush to Flotsom Island, lost without Elaine and with a disgustingly infected hand.

To start off the second chapter, Guybrush finds himself searching just off the coast of Flotsom Island for his wife, Elaine, and a cure for the dreaded voodoo pox. He then has a run-in with Morgan LeFlay (hired by The Marquis De Singe) who just has to have the ill-infected hand of Guybrush. After tumbling into his wife (and luckily due to a broken mast), you find out she was with LeChuck to "try and find you" the whole time, yet she stays with LeChuck as you go about your deeds of trying to find a sacred sponge that can cure the sickening illness.

During the rest of the game, the usual tricks are played and tracks are followed. Guybrush needs to search his environments and defeat puzzles for the three summoning artifacts in order to get to the sacred sponge. Searching can get a bit cumbersome at times, especially when landing on the two smallest islands where there is absolutely nothing to do and you find yourself pointing at every nook and cranny. Still, annoying as it may be, the action, searching and puzzles pick up and it seems as though these completely barren islands are probably a precursor to future chapters.

Graphics are the same and controls are obviously handled the same exact way as the first chapter. Walking is attached to the Nunchuk's thumbstick and point and click actions are done with the Wii Remote's pointer. Moving the on-screen cursor to the right edge of the screen will allow the items and options tile to "slide" out. Here you can see your inventory of items had and found for viewing, using and combining.

Remember that crazy, wittily funny dialogue from the first chapter? Uh, yeah. It's definitely back and more hilarious than ever. However, less fan service seems to be given as the developers took a step away from using established jokes from both the first game and first chapter, which led them to allow the humor to stand on its own. Except, of course, for that damn parrot. Characters you meet seem to come more to life in this chapter as well. Less important characters in the first chapter are given more prominent roles as well as more "bling" to their lives.

The adventure genre seems safe from dying out completely for now, as the second chapter of Tales of Monkey Island continues the laugh-out-loud, hilarious and whimsical adventures of Guybrush Threepwood. Though slow at first, the second half really picks up and allows for the story and characters to finally start connecting, albeit leaving openings for obvious future chapters.

Now it's time to find out what exactly the wife, Elaine, is up to... with LeChuck.

8.1/10