Probably the best adventure game ever!
For any adventure game, the story, dialogue and plot development, and puzzles are the most important elements. MI2 has one of the best story line ever, extremely hilarious dialogues (even in bad situations), well written script, on-the-edge-of-your-seat situations one after the other (or maybe down on the floor laughing hysterically), and the most logical puzzles ever (making a voodoo doll from one's belongings including your grandpa's bones and your own spit and toupee can't be more logical). Most of the characters are so memorable, even your local dry cleaner is hard to forget, not to mention the poor bloke who's leg you'll have to chop off (don't worry, it's just wooden) during your adventures. During the time when Monkey Island 1 & 2 came out, adventure gaming was probably going through its golden age. Point-and click adventuring was very popular and games like Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Day of the tentacle, Gabriel Knight, Sam & Max, Simon the Sorcerer, Discworld, Flight of the Amazon Queen.… the list goes on. All of them are excellent games but MI2 surpasses them all and in fact sets such a high standard for adventure gaming that none else could match. Many solid adventure games just became casualty to the high standard and e.g. I remember when I (finally) finished Police Quest 4: Open Season, I found myself thinking "hhmmm… Close but no Monkey Island". The only criticisms I can think of are that it is still not long enough (but not short by all means) and the ending leaves something to be desired for. Monkey Island 3 hardly ever explains MI2's ending and it’s a bit disappointing, but then this is nothing as compared to the sheer fun and enjoyment you'll still be feeling after completing it. Throughout the game, you would walk, run, lay down, sail, sleep, fight, spit, throw, blast, fool around, dig, dance, steel, cut legs (in fact just a wooden leg as I have mentioned before), click, make voodoo dolls, pin voodoo dolls, chop of limbs of voodoo dolls, hate voodoo dolls, escape from jail, tell stories of your adventures, pull, push, open, close, read, write, play, insult, and most important of all smile all the way in the Monkey Island (may I call the series Monkey Islands?, just kidding).
Pure magic and liquid fun. A true classic, a masterpiece and extremely monkey. Terribly Good!