Return to Monkey Island | NSW/PC | Devolver Digital/Lucasfilm | 2022

Last edited by ITSMILNER on Tue Jun 28, 2022 2:37 pm, edited 2 times in total.

Introducing Return to Monkey Island, a new game by Ron Gilbert that picks up where Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge left off

Did Ron Gilbert not like the concept of Murray then?

Cuttooth wrote:Did Ron Gilbert not like the concept of Murray then?

Murray was introduced in Curse of Monkey Island which Gilbert didn't make but Gilbert's said before he would use characters he didn't make in a potential Monkey Island 3 if he liked them.

HOLY strawberry floating gooseberry fool ITS REAL!

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

Memento Mori wrote:
Cuttooth wrote:Did Ron Gilbert not like the concept of Murray then?

Murray was introduced in Curse of Monkey Island which Gilbert didn't make.

I know, it just seemed they were making a point about Murray specifically in the trailer.

Cuttooth wrote:
Memento Mori wrote:
Cuttooth wrote:Did Ron Gilbert not like the concept of Murray then?

Murray was introduced in Curse of Monkey Island which Gilbert didn't make.

I know, it just seemed they were making a point about Murray specifically in the trailer.

I hope it's a joke and Murray will be in. I mean they voiced his character so. :wub:

Fingers crossed this is a console release too. Cannot believe this is actually happening (and picking up after LeChuck's Revenge...glorious).

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IT JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER! :wub:

Yes!!!

Didn't Gilbert announce this as an April Fools on his blog at first too? :lol:

Hope they can get the VA for Guybrush back as well.

Lagamorph wrote:Didn't Gilbert announce this as an April Fools on his blog at first too?

Hope they can get the VA for Guybrush back as well.

It confirms the VA in the reveal video.

Currently trending at number 5 on UK Twitter (was 3).

Legit thought we'd never get to see Gilbert's continuation of the ending from LeChuck's Revenge.

Properly excited by this, albeit with the usual caveats of "stuff returning from your childhood is never as good as it was back then"!

It’s happening!

Might have to get around to playing LeChuck's Revenge finally :oops:

Oh my days

I bought the remasters on my PS3. Might have to get that out the loft. To my shame, never actually finished Lechuck's Revenge on the Amiga. The 11 disks it came on may have been a mild deterrent.

Poser wrote:I bought the remasters on my PS3. Might have to get that out the loft. To my shame, never actually finished Lechuck's Revenge on the Amiga. The 11 disks it came on may have been a mild deterrent.

I was luck to play the PC versions from a Hard Drive, so never had to worry about the disc swapping most Amiga users were plagued with.

Replayed Secret a couple of years ago through ScummVM and it's still fantastic.
LeChucks Revenge is somehow even better though. It's a masterpiece of P&C design and arguably the best game in the entire genre.
Curse of Monkey Island is really solid as well, even without Gilbert at the helm. Looks great and has some fantastic characters.
The Telltale, Tales of Monkey Island was ok, but its very easily forgotten.

It's only really Escape that lets the series down. It just never transitioned to 3D particularly well and I remember being utterly frustrated with it, especially with the Monkey Kombat section later in the game.

Might do a replay of them all in the run up to this.

Poser wrote:I bought the remasters on my PS3. Might have to get that out the loft. To my shame, never actually finished Lechuck's Revenge on the Amiga. The 11 disks it came on may have been a mild deterrent.

I still have a boxed copy of MI2, complete with mix and mojo 8-)

Cheeky Devlin wrote:
Poser wrote:I bought the remasters on my PS3. Might have to get that out the loft. To my shame, never actually finished Lechuck's Revenge on the Amiga. The 11 disks it came on may have been a mild deterrent.

I was luck to play the PC versions from a Hard Drive, so never had to worry about the disc swapping most Amiga users were plagued with.

Replayed Secret a couple of years ago through ScummVM and it's still fantastic.
LeChucks Revenge is somehow even better though. It's a masterpiece of P&C design and arguably the best game in the entire genre.
Curse of Monkey Island is really solid as well, even without Gilbert at the helm. Looks great and has some fantastic characters.
The Telltale, Tales of Monkey Island was ok, but its very easily forgotten.

It's only really Escape that lets the series down. It just never transitioned to 3D particularly well and I remember being utterly frustrated with it, especially with the Monkey Kombat section later in the game.

Might do a replay of them all in the run up to this.

Really excited for this. Actually only did a binge watch of YouTube videos about the first game a couple of weeks ago. Never quite got on with LeChucks Revenge as much as the original. Perhaps that's because I played the original as a kid and so it has all the nostalgia associated and I only played LeChucks many years later. Love Lucasarts point n clicks so much. Might also do a playthrough of either the Monkeys or Lucasarts.

Do we have any idea when this is out?

Return to Monkey Island | NSW/PC | Devolver Digital/Lucasfilm | 2022

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