The eagerly-anicipated next Monkey Island saga comes to WiiWare with moderate success. Maybe get the PC version...

User Rating: 6.5 | Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal WII
The eagerly-anticipated next Monkey Island saga, along with it's new episodic format. comes to WiiWare with moderate success. Personally I am not a fan of the episodic point n' click, the Sam and Max games are enjoyable enough, and the style is in-keeping with the tv series, but when it comes to an adventure like Monkey Island, one wonders if one longer, more involved game would be more engaging than 5 monthly-released episodes. The humour is still present, and preserving the original voice actors for all the characters, particularly the English version of Elaine Marley, is a triumph (as well as more than a few cameos from other games in the series). The gameplay is engaging, and the storyline nestles comfortably, certainly with the more recent games from the series.
However, this for the Wii version is where the plus points stop. The WiiWare port suffers from some abysmal sound glitches, clicks and pops, particularly in the background music, some very interesting graphical issues and clipping problems, as well as the odd hang here and there requiring a hard-reset of your Wii console. The game looks, sounds and plays more like a beta release than a finished product, even though for a WiiWare game it is a simply mammoth download. You will certainly be needing a fairly hefty SD card installed in your Wii if you were planning on having all 5 episodes downloaded at the same time.
On the plus side, the 1000 point price in the Wii shop is fairly cheap (£7.50 an episode roughly), and the Wii remote and nunchuck combination does seem idealy suited to the newer 3D control system, even if the clipping issues, coupled with a fairly clumsy inventory system, can on occasions make it a slightly annoying experience.
Frustrations aside, it's still a Monkey Island game, and an entertaining one at that (if not a particularly polished one). However, with the PC version being prettier, with better quality sound, more stability and a slightly lower price, there is very little reason to choose the Wii version if you have a PC capable of running it (anything other than a netbook, from what I can tell).