Much of the humor in Escape from Monkey Island is like this. The bartender tells him that the regulars have told the same jokes for so long that now they just refer to them by number. A guy walks into a bar and notices people keep yelling out numbers, and everyone in the bar busts up laughing. In fact, there may even be too many cameos by old favorites. LeChuck, Murray the skull, Herman Toothrot, Otis, Carla, Meathook, and many, many others make guest appearances.
Many of the locales will be familiar to longtime fans of the series, as will a number of the characters. He'll visit Jambalaya Island (the island most affected by Mandrill's takeover) and Lucre Island and once again return to the titular Monkey Island itself. To reach these ends, Guybrush must once again explore the strange Caribbean Islands that surround his home, Melee Island. These events aren't as unrelated as they may seem, and Guybrush must help Elaine stop the gentrification of his stomping grounds and find the Ultimate Insult before it falls into the wrong hands. To top it all off, everyone seems to be looking for a voodoo artifact called the Ultimate Insult. What adds to the political intrigue is that the pirate hangouts in the Tri-Island area are being bought up and made into tourist-friendly venues like StarBuccaneer's and Planet Threepwood, thanks to an Australian land developer named Ozzie Mandrill. Charles, a foppish glad-hander with a dark secret. This incorrect declaration has ended her lifetime term as governor, so she must now run against Charles L. In this chapter of Guybrush Threepwood's adventures, the self-proclaimed mighty pirate and his new bride, Governor Elaine Marley, have returned from their honeymoon only to find that Elaine has been declared dead. But the game's missteps do detract from the overall experience. When it's good, Escape from Monkey Island is very, very good. This inconsistency winds through the whole game, from the puzzles to the interface. Much of it is funny, although a lot of it isn't. This is true of Escape from Monkey Island, the fourth game in the series. Whereas games like Full Throttle and Grim Fandango emphasized character and story, the Monkey Island games have increasingly leaned toward trying to make you laugh by means of an endless barrage of puns and pop-culture references. In contrast to most LucasArts adventures, the Monkey Island games have always been really over the top.
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