Press Start: May 20th, 2015

I'll just get down to the nitty gritty of this episode.

Title: Tales of Monkey Island: Episode 4 (The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood)
Released: October 2009

Spoiler lie ahead, arr. You be warned!
So, if you've been keeping up with what I've been writing, Morgan le Flay double-crosses Guybrush after they elude Coronado with the sponge. She's been working for the Marquise de Singe, after all, and she does her job as she is paid for. So she brings him to Flotsam Island once more, only to be handed off not to the Marquise but the Pox-blighted Pirates of Flotsam, charging him with several crimes that he may or may not have done.

This episode may seem rather lengthy in the course of clearing Guybrush's name and setting things right. Now that he has the sponge, he has to see to using it to clearing Elaine and the rest of the pirates on the Caribbean from LeChuck's voodoo pox. Divided into two larger chunks of the episode, we go from flipping back and forth in the courtroom (closed in the first episode) to exploring the greater part of Flotsam Island once more to seek a way to activate La Esponja Pequeno and make it grow back to its normal size.

We see former characters from the previous episodes such as those of Episode 1 (D'Oro, Crimpdigit, and a few others) to some more recent (Hardtack, for instance). Using his wits, his sass, and whatever isn't nailed to the floor, Guybrush tackles the several accusations one at a time to prove that he is indeed the Mighty Pirate(TM) that he believes he is. But when you throw the pox-stricken Elaine into the picture, he starts to see how grim the situation has become for the Caribbean itself.

I won't give away the twist for this at the end, simply because it is definitely something to play the game for. What I will say is that I did love trying to figure out the second half of the episode, where you were given the tasks to increase La Esponja to its full size with the Feast for the Senses. Puzzles like that are grand and rather far and few between nowadays, and I do wish that they would bring Monkey Island back for a reawakening. But, near the end, when it comes to finally bringing the sponge to fruition, the surprise after that shocked me. After all that?!

To be continued... arr...