I'm a little surprised I ended up not liking this game (being a LucasArts classic), and not being able to recommend it. I never played it when it first came out because the new (at the time) 3D graphics turned me off. I was already spoiled by classics like the first two Monkey Island games, Maniac Mansion and it's sequel, and even Full Throttle. Now I finally got around to playing this, and it is just meh.
The controls are not great, and there are some game mechanics that make the already illogical puzzle solutions even worse. In year two (out of 4) there is one point where an object you need is sitting right in between three other characters, so when your cursor is over it, you would never even notice that it is a separate object (apart from the characters) that you can interact with. Also, There is another puzzle which has an object you can encounter early on in year two, but nothing happens if you mess with it, so you're like "OK this does nothing," but it is actually needed way later at the end of year two. However, you would never think to go back and interact with it again because of your previous experience with it.
In conclusion, there are weird game mechanics, faulty design, an ok (not great) story, and a bug in the laatest version that makes my video card run very hot, and very illogical puzzle solutions (a walkthrough is much needed), that make me not want to recommend this. I'm going to finish it with a walkthrough just to do it, but I'm already not having fun any more. It started out good in year one, but year two is whatevers. I just started year three..

EDIT: I finished it, with a LOT of help from a walkthrough, and the puzzles get even worse. It's frustrating. Solutions you would NEVER think of because you have no reason to ever think of them. If anyone finished this game without a walkthrough it's because they tried every inventory object on every environment object. This shows very poor game design. Also navigating around is wonky as hell. Bad controls, waiting for Manny to walk a virtual mile on-screen constantly just to "look" at an object, etc. I hated this game by the time I finished it.

I'm a little surprised I ended up not liking this game (being a LucasArts classic), and not being able to recommend it. I never played it when it first came out because the new (at the time) 3D graphics turned me off. I was already spoiled by classics like the first two Monkey Island games, Maniac Mansion and it's sequel, and even Full Throttle. Now I finally got around to playing this, and it is just meh. The controls are not great, and there are some game mechanics that make the already illogical puzzle solutions even worse. In year two (out of 4) there is one point where an object you need is sitting right in between three other characters, so when your cursor is over it, you would never even notice that it is a separate object (apart from the characters) that you can interact with. Also, There is another puzzle which has an object you can encounter early on in year two, but nothing happens if you mess with it, so you're like "OK this does nothing," but it is actually needed way later at the end of year two. However, you would never think to go back and interact with it again because of your previous experience with it. In conclusion, there are weird game mechanics, faulty design, an ok (not great) story, and a bug in the laatest version that makes my video card run very hot, and very illogical puzzle solutions (a walkthrough is much needed), that make me not want to recommend this. I'm going to finish it with a walkthrough just to do it, but I'm already not having fun any more. It started out good in year one, but year two is whatevers. I just started year three.. EDIT: I finished it, with a LOT of help from a walkthrough, and the puzzles get even worse. It's frustrating. Solutions you would NEVER think of because you have no reason to ever think of them. If anyone finished this game without a walkthrough it's because they tried every inventory object on every environment object. This shows very poor game design. Also navigating around is wonky as hell. Bad controls, waiting for Manny to walk a virtual mile on-screen constantly just to "look" at an object, etc. I hated this game by the time I finished it.