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This thread made me re-install Escape. So, a couple of things that came to mind while I was trying it:

1. The game was clearly made to be played with a controller. I tried both, keyboard and gamepad and it’s far more pleasant to play with a pad. The keyboard controls are atrociously bad.

2. The insult fighting, be it arm wrestling, darts or something else, is a running joke in the game, as the Australian real estate mogul cheating people out of their properties with some form of insult fighting is a plot device.

3. Voice acting is pretty solid. The script and dialogue have been decent, not as good as the previous games, but adequate.

4. I’m not hating the background art. It is surprisingly good pre-rendered stuff with a cartoonish twist to it.

5. Character models are pretty poor.

As a technical note, the installer it has doesn’t work under modern 64-bit architecture, so you need a replacement installer or run it under Residual. The game does, however, work perfectly fine under Windows 10 if you get it installed.

The alternative installer is here: https://quickandeasysoftware.net/software/escape-from-monkey-island-setup

It also allows you to run the game on higher resolutions, but full HD resolution will run slow and there’s a lot of screen tearing. 1280x960 is a recommended resolution and that does make the game, especially the 3D models, look a tad better than the native 640x480. I haven’t even noticed any technical issues with that resolution, if not counting some alignment errors in the games main menu.