Destination: Treasure Island - Review

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Pirates (as in murderous seafarers) have long sparked the imagination of adventure game developers. Pirates conspire to capture Gwydion (Prince Alexander) in King's Quest III: To Heir is Human. They inspire the career of Guybrush Threepwood in The Secret of Monkey Island. They are lifelong foes of Peter Pan in Hook (an adventure game adapted from Steven Spielberg's movie of the same name). They come in their "black ships" to ravage the island worlds of Myst.Destination: Treasure Island (not to be confused with Treasure Island released by Radon Labs in 2009) bills itself as the sequel to Treasure Island, the classic pirate novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1881-1882. Exactly 4 years after the events in the novel, the teenage protagonist Jim Hawkins is attempting to relocate Long…

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