Tales of Monkey Island: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal

Tales of Monkey Island is another in a long string of successful adventure game series based on another license, although this one purports to have more of a focus on a continued storyline than a bunch of loosely connected episodes. So much so that at first you could only buy the whole thing as a package deal, although now individual episodes are for sale. The first chapter is one of the meatiest and most enjoyable the company has done, and I got a solid amount of enjoyment from it. The dialogue is funny (though like the original game, not really enhanced by full voice acting), the story nicely sets up a fairy robust story arc, and the puzzles are pretty dang good. Consistently fairly tricky but capably solved if you pay attention, and also suitably clever to go with the game's silly mood. I tend to judge a game's puzzles by how rarely I had to get help in-game or out, and I handled this one mostly on my own, which is a lot more satisfying. Not everything is perfect, but it's a cute, solid adventure game, and the beginning of something suitably grand and entertaining. Definitely started on the right foot.