He should, hopefully, pinpoint what that questionable final scene meant.
The author of Monkey Island has shown that the upcoming Return To Monkey Island will pick up on the time when the game left players in 1991.
Although 3 more games have been released between Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge and the upcoming Return To Monkey Island, the new game sees original authors Dave Grossman and Ron Gilbert return to the franchise.
In a new interview, the couple showed that Return To Monkey Island is being treated as a direct sequel to LeChuck’s Revenge.
Beware of Monkey Island 2 spoilers below.
It will start where this moment of the game ended, which is when protagonist Guybrush Threepwood enters an amusement park with the recently revealed pirate/villainous brother LeChuck. Transformed into children, the final scene sees their parents arrive and tell Guybrush that they are satisfied that he is fine while LeChuck’s eyes turn red. The importance of all this has occupied enthusiasts in the debate for years.
“One of the most important things to me about this is that I looked for the game to start right at the end of Monkey Island 2, when you walk into this amusement park. I looked up the game to start there, Gilbert told Adventure Gamers.
“That was my only criterion: we have to start the game there. I don’t need to move on to all the details, however, we start there, and then it takes a lot of twists and turns for you to be waiting for us,” he continued.
Elsewhere in the interview, Gilbert showed that while the new game is a direct sequel, it’s not the same game the pair would have created in the ’90s.
“The fair fact is that none of us would play the game we would have done back then. We’re other people,” Gilbert said. The concepts I had in my head about what would have been my Monkey Island 3, a lot of the concepts have already been realized. “
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