It is one of the industry's greatest crimes, I think, that the majority of games with swordfighting don't include any sort of insult component. I mean, seriously: what happened? Where did we go wrong? I like to imagine that, off in some wonderful alternate dimension, things went the opposite way. People traded swords for words, and dairy farmers the world over reported an all-time low of self-esteem. In the dreary, sass-less dystopia we call reality, however, there is one shimmering lighthouse beacon of hope: a free browser-based version of Monkey Island 1 and 3's classic variations on the theme. We can only pray that everyone who's even the least bit interested in the oh-so-sensual art of swapping steel takes note this time around.

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