Return to Monkey Island encapsulates the point-and-click adventure flow state. You’ll regularly reach an impasse while playing; deadlocked with an assortment of random items in your inventory, and a series of cryptic clues scribbled on a notepad. Puzzles gate progression and progression is earned through experimentation. And so you encircle Mêlée Island, cursing its delightful inhabitants at every pass. Eventually, some logic-bending solution will become apparent after an off-hand observation – doesn’t it always. And when that solution clicks into place, you begin to flow around the playable space like a rapid flood of water unleashed – using objects here and giving items there – until you inevitably crash against the next blockade.
