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A new Monkey Island 2 sequel is coming from Ron GilbertWHAT
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Return to Monkey Island | Coming 2022
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.”
The official MI3 from LucasArts kinda sidestepped Monkey Island 2’s ending, see. And Ron Gilbert had left LucasArts before then, and wasn’t involved. It’s a decent game, but not the one Gilbert would’ve wanted to make. He’s talked about dreams of a new Monkey Island 3 for some time, saying that years back hehad discussed with LucasArtswhich went nowhere. He even hit up Disney on Twitter in 2016:
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.— Ron Gilbert - Not here anymore, on Mastodon now (@grumpygamer)May 23, 2016To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings
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.— Ron Gilbert - Not here anymore, on Mastodon now (@grumpygamer)May 23, 2016
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.
Ona Video Game History Foundation livestreamin 2020, Gilbert said that he had “the broad strokes” settled. He explained, “The third game in my head was always that Guybrush would go to Hell, and the demon pirate LeChuck would be down there and he would be doing a lot of what he would be doing in Hell.” Whether that’s what this game is, and how this game finally came about, I’ll be fascinated to hear.
Goodness me. The game is due to launch sometime in 2022. For now, I guess keep an eye onits website. How strange and wonderful.
