More fun than a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle.
You play as Guybrush Threepwood, who (other than having one of the oddest names for a main character) aspires to become a great pirate. He arrives on Melee Island and you now have to make this slightly awkward man a pirate by completing tasks set forth for you by the pirate kings (not really kings). During the course of his (and yours) adventure, you will make friends, find love and mostly laugh until your posterior detaches from your torso.
This game is loaded to the brim with tounge in cheek humor about pirating stereotypes and an almost insane version of logic. In this game, if something doesn't make sense, it's cause you're not thinking the right way. Need a helmet to be fired out of a cannon? Use a Pot! Need to get across a rope, how bout that rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle? Need to get a necklace from a severed head kept alive by Voodoo magic? Did you try asking really nicely?
The odd thought process required by this game is both is greatest creator of humor and frustration. There are many times when you know what you need, but don't know where to find it. There are also many times when you pick something up that you think should work but never are able to use because its not what the game wants you to use. Some of the frustration helped by the handy hint button, and aids you along nicely, but without it, the game is downright annoying in points.
As this is a remake of an old game originally released from 1990, they have the new cell-shaded look and the old pixel artwork available to you at any time. With the hotswap function, it goes from new style to old and back with a push of a button. A nice feature that I found myself using in almost every screen, just because I wanted to see how the original looked.
This is a great game who's joy of playing is derived not from the adventure, but because it is really really funny. Not the best game ever, but great if you can find it cheap. Just keep in mind the last thing I made Guybrush say at the end "Don't pay more than twenty bucks for a computer game".