Adventure Monkey Island 3: The Curse Of Monkey Island 1

Shipwrecked after defeating LeChuck in Monkey Island 2, Guybrush wishes to have one last look at his beloved Elaine. As fate has it, he ends up blowing up LeChuck's ship, sinking it in the process. After recovering a ring from the ship, he uses it to ask Elaine to marry him.

Unfortunately, though, the ring was cursed, and Elain turns into a golden statue. With the help of his old friend, the Voodoo Lady, Guybrush learns that he can break the curse with a replacement diamond ring, one of which so happens to be on Blood Island. However, to get there, you will need a map, a ship, and a crew.

Luckily, in the nearby town, a group of former pirates can be found, and if you can convince them that you are worthy of the name "Captain", they will happily follow you.

On the way to Blood Island, you will once again end up fighting sword battles, which are more battles of wit. You'll also create a hangover cure, and eventually run into Stan, the sleazy salesguy. Other famous old friends include the cannibals, who now turned vegetarian and worship a lactose-intolerant volcano.

Eventually, you will find clues on where to obtain a ring and a diamond, and thus break the curse. But of course, LeChuck isn't about to give up without a fight!


The Curse of Monkey Island breaks tradition with the earlier games of the series. Much more cartoonish rather than Pixellated, the Scumm engine obviously had a graphical overhaul. The game also introduced actual music, cut scenes, and voice acting, necessitating the game to be on CD-ROM, rather than the traditional floppy disks.

Furthermore, the game allows the player to pick between an easy and a hard mode, where some of the puzzles were simply removed from the former, where the latter will yield some additional objects that are to be used to achieve certain goals. Likewise, prior to engaging in naval combat, you can pick between the crew helping out, or having to do more work yourself in order to engage enemy pirate ships.

Contrary to the earlier Monkey Island games where you used pre-defined commands, in Curse of Monkey Island, you control Guybrush and provide commands by hovering your mouse over an object, and holding the left mouse button. This will bring up a pop-up menu in the shape of a coin. Using the symbols on it, you can examine, use, things, or talk to people.


Should you feel Guybrush walks too slowly, if the cursor changes to an arrow, you should be able to double-click it to speed up moving to that location, rather than waiting for Guybrush to walk across.

Alternatively, you can use the following keyboard shortcuts:

[E] - Examine
[I] - Inventory
[T] - Talk
[U] - Use

In your inventory, you can use objects on other objects by clicking them once and then dragging them to the other object (or outside the inventory and using them on the environment).


*** Sword fighting insults
Below you will find the insults, and their proper responses.