History VideoGame / GhostPiratesOfVoojuIsland

%%* WelcomeToTheCaribbeanMon:

%%* BigFun: Blue Belly.

%%* {{Ghost Pirate}}s

* GuideDangIt: most of the game's puzzles are easy, and can be solved with little or no guidance -- except the infamous "charades" puzzle, involving Blue Belly and a frightened prisoner. The player is advised to go straight to a walkthrough instead of wasting your time on the incomprehensible instructions. Even once you notice that the other character will nod if you the right gesture, and shake his head in response to the wrong one, the rest is still trial and error.

%%* HollywoodVoodoo:
%%* {{Mayincatec}}:
%%* MsFanservice: Jane, full-stop.

* CaptainColorbeard: Greenbeard is obviously an example.

* FatBastard: The treacherous Itzakoka, high priest of Emperor Pacal.

* MsFanservice: Jane, full-stop.

''Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island'' is a [[PointAndClickGame point-and-click]] AdventureGame designed by Bill Tiller (visual artist of ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' and ''VideoGame/AVampyreStory''). An interesting mechanism in this game is that each of the three protagonists can communicate and see through the eyes of the other two, and often you have to turn to your comrades for advice.

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* AccidentalMisnaming -- Papa Doc ''always'' gets Blue Belly's moniker wrong.
* BigFun -- Blue Belly.
* {{Bridezilla}} -- Muriel, bride of Governor Derrick of Merry Cay.
* CaptainColorbeard -- Greenbeard.
* DemBones -- Grimjaw and his first mate; Captain Red Rum.
* DidYouJustScamCthulhu -- Jane Starling's ploy with [[spoiler: Old Roger and Xilbaba]]. Interesting as this involves setting one Cthulhu scamming against another.

* FatBastard -- the treacherous Itzakoka, high priest of Emperor Pacal.
* {{Ghost Pirate}}s
* GodInHumanForm -- I'Xel, who is powerless over the struggle of the protagonists, [[spoiler: but does appear as a [[DeusExMachina Dea Ex Machina]] at the end]].
* GuideDangIt -- most of the game's puzzles are easy, and can be solved with little or no guidance -- except the infamous "charades" puzzle, involving Blue Belly and a frightened prisoner. The player is advised to go straight to a walkthrough instead of wasting your time on the incomprehensible instructions.
** Not really as hard as people make it to be. If you use the right gesture, the other character will nod. If you make a wrong one, he'll shake his head. That said, it's still trial and error, and probably not worth the effort.

* HookHand -- Pirate cook Blue Belly has a ''spatula'' hand.
* HollywoodVoodoo.
* {{Mayincatec}}.
* MsFanservice -- Jane, full-stop.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent -- most notably, the ghosts are still subjected to gravity: hence no levitation tricks. If they walk into quicksand they would sink.
* PirateGirl -- Jane Starling.
* PsychoExGirlfriend -- Xilbaba, former paramour of [[{{Satan}} Old Roger]]. She even [[Film/FatalAttraction boiled his pet rabbit]].
* RoyalBrat -- Young Emperor Pacal, at least he can be made to see reason.
* SceneryPorn -- Tiller has outdone himself over ''VideoGame/AVampyreStory''; there are far more scenes, most of them absolutely gorgeous. While completely 3D-rendered adventure games are getting better and better graphically, there is still something about 2D, hand-painted graphics that is hard to replace.
* SpiritualSuccessor to ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'': a farical, anachronistic pirate story; the heavy helping of voodoo; the swirlly clouds; the breath-mints...

* StrawMisogynist -- Papa Doc's mild misogyny is used for comic effects.
* TalkLikeAPirate -- Yarr!
* TheUnintelligible -- Yamo the ShrunkenHead. Papa Doc understands him just fine.

* WelcomeToTheCaribbeanMon

''Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island'' is a [[PointAndClickGame point-and-click]] AdventureGame designed by Bill Tiller (visual artist of ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' and ''AVampyreStory''). An interesting mechanism in this game is that each of the three protagonists can communicate and see through the eyes of the other two, and often you have to turn to your comrades for advice.

* SceneryPorn -- Tiller has outdone himself over ''AVampyreStory''; there are far more scenes, most of them absolutely gorgeous. While completely 3D-rendered adventure games are getting better and better graphically, there is still something about 2D, hand-painted graphics that is hard to replace.

* TheUnintelligible -- Yamo the shrunken head. Papa Doc understands him just fine.

* SpiritualSuccessor to ''MonkeyIsland'': a farical, anachronistic pirate story; the heavy helping of voodoo; the swirlly clouds; the breath-mints...

* MyNameIsNotDurwood -- Papa Doc ''always'' gets Blue Belly's moniker wrong.