Review by Stack on 24 Jan 2015 (Rating: 2)
Good grief this is really bad.
The saving grace is Chris Kerry's naive colourful graphics, but only before they animate as they clash, are glitchy and collision detection is awful. The Jack and the Beanstalk coder strikes again!
As with J&tB you know that there is a game in there somewhere, but the awful illogical map is cluttered with frustrating decisions as to where the screen routes and exits may be and hindered by enemies who materialise right on top of you.
This games' current WOS rating of around 6.5 is surely too high.
Monty Is Innocent! From the genius that brought you Jack and the Beanstalk, Giant's Revenge and The House That Jack Built... another dodge'em all and run-out-of-the-room game with huge, hyper-coloured backgrounds and no playability at all. You're chased by fast guards and skulls and whatever's which appear out of nowhere, and even directly OVER you, if they feel like, killing you immediately - while you constantly snag on elements of the background or you are cornered in a cul de sac. Surprisingly, the game was well received by virtually every magazine, maybe blinded by the graphics, I don't know. Anyway, thanking God, this was the last game of this kind, for Chris Kerry, which started redeeming himself the same year with the cute maze game Metabolis, in which finally the graphics become a decorative element of a solid gameplay, from there, he'll go on programming lots of decent and good games, including some favourites of the playing public [Footballer Of The Year, Avenger, Auf Wiedersehen Monty]. Monty Is Innocent tries to be an interactive cartoon, but succeeds only partially.
1985 Gremlin Graphics Software (UK)
by Chris Kerry
I really love Chris Kerry's early graphics, both Jack's trilogy and this Monty's episode are quite cute and colourful. But boy, they are reeeally frustrating to play. Chris never got around resolving the collision detection and color clash of his games, and they turned out to be some of the most annoying games to play on the Speccy.
This makes it an awful experience and spoils what could have been such a wonderful game. Graphically this is my favorite game of the Monty series, but as a playing game it's simply annoying and frustrating, and the worse of the series by far.
Still this is a fun game to play if you have the patient of a saint or infinite lives. Yup, no other choice, I'm afraid.
