

Take pride in your accomplishments as you ride through the city! Aside from these larger jobs, you’ll get assorted tasks to test out every bit of equipment that you earn. In Friedenberg your mission is to help design solutions for renewable energy and improve the city’s infrastructure during the campaign. On the European map inspired by the idyllic cities of Southwest Germany, you’ll find rolling hills and beautiful riversides. Tasks like renovating the harbor area to attract more tourists or helping the struggling inner city to recover will demand all your skills. You’ll also meet different clients that will challenge you. As you start from scratch assisted by your mentor Hape, you get bigger and more interesting jobs to grow your company and expand your fleet. The new chapter in the Monkey Island series marks the return of the iconic series’ creator Ron Gilbert, joined by game co-writer Dave Grossman, art director Rex Crowle (Knights & Bikes, Tearaway) and composers Peter McConnell, Michael Land, and Clint Bajakian (Monkey Island, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge).Įach map has its own campaign through which you become the owner of your own construction company. Venture out into uncharted lands like the aptly named Terror Island and the chilling outposts of Brrr Muda to make allies and enemies alike. Navigate the sometimes-friendly confines of Melee Island, a familiar place that finds itself under new management by leaders who have put the squeeze on old friends and new faces. Context-sensitive interactions, reactive dialog trees, and an easy-to-use inventory system make pirating a breeze. Chilli peppers, for example, allow you to trigger a burning pepper attack that can be used to knock rivals off course or bash through obstacles.Bringing classic point and click gameplay to the modern-day, intrepid pirates will solve puzzles and explore the islands with a clever evolution of classic adventure game controls. You also sometimes come across different types of food whose properties you can adopt in order to unleash attacks on your rivals. If you fall off a stage, you have a limited amount of time to hover him back onto it, via manic button-bashing, although while you’re doing that, your rivals will be making good progress towards the finishing line. As you run over the cholesterol-packed treats and fruit that stud each stage, your Kirby grows in size and as he does so, his speed increases.


You have to race to the end of each stage, propelling Kirby like a ball, in the style of Marble Madness or Super Monkey Ball. It features a number of courses constructed from the most sugary of desserts, studded with fruit, but mainly composed of whipped cream, biscuits, and cake icing.

The universe in which the game takes place is beautifully rendered, in typical Nintendo fashion, but merely witnessing it could lead to a hardening of the arteries.
