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My brain is slightly breaking with the news that: 1) a new Monkey Island game is coming; 2) it’s led by Ron Gilbert, the designer of the first two piratical comedy adventure games; and 3) it’s a direct sequel to Monkey Island 2, a game which already has a sequel. Remarkable news. Come watch the trailer announcingReturn To Monkey Island.
The publishers, Devolver Digital say this new game “picks up whereMonkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revengeleft off.” Which is a curious situation, considering that 1997’s The Curse Of Monkey Island is set after the events of Monkey Island 2. However, Gilbert did addon Twitter, “MI3 doesn’t go out of canon. We were very careful about that. Murray is in this game.”
Dear@Disney, now that you’re not making games, please sell me my Monkey Island and Mansion Mansion IP. I’ll pay real actual money for them.
This here new third (sixth?) Monkey Island is made by Terrible Toybox, the studio where Gilbert and chums madedecent adventure game Thimbleweed Park. Gilbert is leading Return To Monkey Island with an impressive team. He’s writing and designing it with Dave Grossman, who worked on the originals (and later co-designed Day of The Tentacle with Tim Schafer, and was design director on Telltale’s episodic Tales Of Monkey Island). And LucasArts composers Michael Land, Peter McConnel, and Clint Bajakian are doing music. And Dominic Armato is back as the excellent voice of Guybrush Threepwood. And the new art directoris Rex Crowle, the artist behind the oh-so-pretty Knights And Bikes. And MI3’s breakout star, Murray the demonic talking skull, is at least in the trailer?
