Are you playing the Amiga or the PC version? I guess the latter one?
They liked it. They could solve some puzzles by themselves, and I could see the spark of pride in their eyes whenever it happened - but I stepped in with hints a couple of times because I didnât want them to lose interest if stuck for too long.
My youngest daughter was very involved in the story and the jokes. Also, if I say some insults, they remember the reply. Which is a big win for me.
Now, letâs wait a couple of days and then itâs sequel time.
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Update: Iâm talking to some pirates!
It seems that everyone has his/her own distorted memory of some events occurred in the past. 
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Now Iâve reached a part of the game that made me feel ashamed when I was a teenager. 
The reason is that in my first run I completely missed a character who, while being a key one for the story, is 100% optional in practice. You can finish the game without ever making the acquaintance!
If you want to know how I missed the character: I just didnât realize that there was an additional room, at the right of this one:
I realized the existence of the character only years later.
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I realized it was a woman years later. I thought it was a man.
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You can disable it with a browser plugin like Stylus if you want. Just add this line of CSS:
.spoiler-blurred {filter: blur(0) !important;}
Just donât blame me if you get spoiled anywhere on this forum.
Indeed, there are some inconsistencies even between the original close ups. Mancomb has a similar fine backdrop gradient than Spiffy. Estevan has almost no pattern, and the Loom guy has a somewhat more rough gradient.
IIrc, I used 240 colors for the Spiffy room. Most rooms use fewer colors for the room graphics, since quite a few are also reserved for the actors.
Update: she just asked me when Iâm going to let her play the sequel.
Tomorrow is going to be a very rainy day, it seems the perfect chance to start it.
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Yes, PC version
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All good guesses but it was Campari⊠which I donât have any idea what is made of, so thereâs a fair chance that is made of a mix of some of the stuff you mentioned 
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Just arrived in townâŠ
And then when I got out of the Scumm Bar
Wow, time passes quickly when youâre having a good time with nice people.
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Oh, you have raw fish!
Yeah, I discovered recently you can actually stew the fish in the boiling pot. This is deceiving. I think if I tried back then, I would have been misleaded since I would have thought that the fish was intended to be used with the pot.
I did not know what âminutesâ were for a meeting until learning it on Monkey Island.
I was much older than I should have been when learning this, so Iâm going to leave when I played Monkey Island for the first time out of the story.
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In my case, the italian translation taught me a new word back then. âminutesâ was translated as âminutaâ. Which is technically correct, but thatâs quite a rare word. Nobody calls it in italian, the common term is âverbaleâ.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, here is a wonderful specimen of a Melee Sylvan Swine. They like to crouch in the woods while wearing a Roman laurel wreath.
(at least, this is what Iâve always seen in those rocks)
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You were in the town in the meantime. I could tell you that, even if you hadnât got certain items.
The beginning of night time in EGA MĂȘlĂ©e is not a matter of time passed, but simply triggered when you enter the main street where the church is located. 
On the other hand, it is always ten oâclock in MĂȘlĂ©e town. Creepy.
It doesnât matter whether you boil the fish and/or meat. All it changes is the name for the item. But if you like Guybrush burning his fingers, go for it.
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Something I just thought of and itâs too late to tryâas usual, Iâve gone and talked to all of my future shipmates before talking to Stan at the ship emporium. But I donât think there was any reason I had to have visited Meathook yet. If hypothetically I hadnât, is it possible to but the ship and be ready to leave without t recruiting Meathook? And if so, what happens?
Or maybe Iâm being a dummy and there was a reason Iâd have had to see him before I wind up buying the ship.
When you buy the ship, Stan says âsee you and your crew - all three of themâ, so I suppose you have to recruit him anyway, even if you never visited his island.
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Thatâs correct, he doesnât play any other role in the game, besides having to be recruited as a shipmate.
No, the game doesnât proceed unless you recruit all of them.
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