Back to Monkey Island asks you to avoid searching the internet for the solution to its puzzles.

For this, those responsible included two issues, including a track system according to the adventure.

More than 30 years have passed since Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge, the latest development in the Ron Gilbert-led adventure saga, and since then everything has changed in the way video games are completed, from a mobile phone with one-click video and text tutorials. Those responsible for bringing Return to Monkey Island know this and have come up with a few solutions, including: a rail system.

In an interview with Ars Technica, the designer knows that the puzzles of past years, which are as convoluted as few can imagine today, are meaningless if we can quickly go online to learn how to proceed. Therefore, they wanted to include this hint system in the game, to guarantee that its logic would be within the fantasy of the video game and present it to the users. “more than a ‘watch'”.

will also be a comfortable way For Return to Monkey Island, something that wasn’t actually new to the franchise—there was something similar in The Curse of Monkey Island, for example—was designed for those who aren’t seasoned with the genre. Where will those who prefer this find an offer puzzles made simpleso that a larger audience can enjoy the story of this point and click through the graphic adventure.

People want to be stuck, but only for five minutesGrossman All this goes against Gilbert’s statements in 2013 that he is opposed to the inclusion of such options, which he wants to respond to. “Anyone involved in any creative process knows that as soon as we start, everything can change. You come up with ideas, you change the story, the characters, the puzzles. Not everything is set in stone“.

On the difficulty of the puzzles, Dave Grossman wanted to add that players no longer tolerate the frustration of an unsolved puzzle as much as they used to. “People want to be stranded, but only for five minutes,” he said in the conversation. Return to Monkey Island was surprisingly announced a few weeks ago and will attempt to honor the franchise’s legacy, with the exception of its first two releases.