I felt like I was playing EMI all over again personally, which I like but it's nowhere near as good as the first 3. And that's basically because of the atmosphere. Both EMI and TMI have elements that really feel out of place in the monkey island universe the way Ron Gilbert introduced it. Stuff like
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etc. would never appear in the first 3 games. They were all about pirates, lost treasures, ghosts and voodoo.