Guybrush Threepwood and Monkey Island announce their return

The entire series was started in 1990 as an adventure game. Monkey Island Mystery, after which the LucasArts team, led by Ron Gilbert, continued the following year with the second part, subtitled “LeChuck’s Revenge”. The brand then took a six-year hiatus to return in 1997 with the project The Curse of Monkey Island. Although some of the original creators, including Gilbert as the father of Monkey Island, no longer worked on it, it was still a great adventure. The original adventure series was subsequently canceled in 2000 by a less popular game. Escape from monkey islandwhich meant basically moving from cartoon animation to 3D processing.

However, in the second half of 2009 it reached the mark The Telltale Games studio behind the episodic adventure game Tales from Monkey Island.. In addition, we received special editions from LucasArts in 2009 and 2010, including remakes of the first two parts. But then it seemed that the series would never return. Since the closure of LucasArts and the acquisition of Lucasfilm by Disney, Ron Gilbert has stated several times that he would like to have Monkey Island back.but for a long time there was silence. Not to mention the periodic publication of stories related to canceled film adaptation or a fabulous easter egg in Sea of ​​Thieves’ Life of a Pirates expansion, which features content inspired by Pirates of the Caribbean.

In the end, however, we did. Devolver Digital and Lucasfilm Games announced today Return to Monkey Islanda new game by Ron Gilbert and his studio Terrible Toybox, which has already created an adventure game Thimbleweed Park, following the poetics of classic LucasArts titles. It’s interesting that the description of the new teaser directly speaks of the continuation of the adventures of The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge.

That Ron Gilbert and his team would just ignore The Curse of Monkey Island, Escape from Monkey Island, and Tales from Monkey Island? Probably not, because in the teaser we can see and hear not only the seagull, which is definitely again borrowed from the game. TKACbut one of the series’ most popular characters, a talking skull named Murray. However, Murray only introduced himself to us in The Curse of Monkey Island. So we will most likely have a story that takes place in time between the second and third parts.

They will also be pleased with the names seen in the teaser, as these are the names of other LucasArts veterans who have previously worked on the series. In addition to Ron Gilbert, he will be writing and designing the game. Dave Grossmanwhile the trio takes care of the music Michael Land, Peter McConnell and Clint Bajakian. AS WELL AS Dominic Armato will play Guybrush Threepwood again. He cursed the protagonist of the series The Curse of Monkey Island, Escape from Monkey Island, Tales of Monkey Island, Mystery of Monkey Island: Special Edition as well as Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge Special Edition.