Return to Monkey Island review – can this 90s pirate adventure be brought into the 21st century?

PC, Nintendo Switch; Terrible Toybox/Devolver Digital
Ageing fans will be relieved to learn that this comeback game from Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman is not just a greatest hits rehash

Far out on the high seas, under the scorching Caribbean sun, a soft-hearted and lovably useless pirate named Guybrush Threepwood has to face a difficult question. Now middle-aged and with a grey-stubbled face, does this non-hero still have an adventure in him, or is his story said and done? It's a question his creators Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman, doyens of 90s comedy puzzle games who have also aged by a few decades, also have to face.

Luckily for us and them, the answer is a grog-croaked but resounding, Aye Aye!" Return to Monkey Island is a deep belly-laugh of nostalgia that works its voodoo charm to bring point and click adventures into the 21st century. It ingeniously brings an old made-for-desktop-computers point-and-click system to the modern-day Nintendo Switch with nifty, easy-to-use controls.