It’s returning characters and assumed knowledge of prior events a go-go. THE SECRET OF MONKEY ISLAND MULTIPLE ENDINGS SERIESSo question one: how much investment in the Monkey Island series do you need to get the most out of Runkey Monkey Lunkey? Answer: Buttockloads. Also his arch nemesis Lechuck the evil ghost demon pirate and terror of the Caribbean is docked at the island to take on supplies and crew and no one seems to give much of a shit about that, either, even though, in context, this should be like if Megatron pulled up to the McDonalds drive-thru window and asked if they were still doing fifty cent ice creams. Guybrush Threepwood, inept wannabe pirate hero whose funny name has a story behind it that will unfailingly kill the conversation at any dinner party on God’s green Earth, arrives back on Melee Island from the first game with a vague notion to resolve the series running gag that we never established what the Secret of Monkey Island actually was, and nobody he meets gives a shit. THE SECRET OF MONKEY ISLAND MULTIPLE ENDINGS FULLView Full TranscriptĪnd right out of the gate the wishy-washiness is on full display because while the game specifically addresses that weird Monkey Island 2 ending, it also establishes the events of every subsequent game as canon as well, it’s just none of it seems to have mattered much. And I’ve witnessed first hand the broken-legged stumble through the wilderness that has been Monkey Island sequels since Monkey Island 2, when original designers Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman closed things off with a weird hard to follow existential downer ending before setting the studio on fire and buggering off, middle fingers held high, and if this was Gilbert and Grossman playing the long, long, LONG game then it’s finally paid off because after several sequels by other people, all with a fairly broad and debatable level of wishy-washiness, they’ve now finally come back to close things off with the definitive wishy-washy Monkey Island sequel, Return to Monkey Island. It fostered my early love of point and click adventure games and was the starting point for industry luminaries like Tim Schafer whose careers I follow to this day. It was one of the first games I had on my old Amiga 600, back when games were like breakfast cereals, ridiculously large cardboard boxes full of ungainly multitudes of flimsy brightly coloured objects. My destiny is as intertwined with that of the Monkey Island series as genitals in a communal shower room full of extremely heterosexual men. We have a merch store as well! Visit the store for brand new ZP merch. Want to watch Zero Punctuation ad-free? Sign-up for The Escapist + today and support your favorite content creators! THE SECRET OF MONKEY ISLAND MULTIPLE ENDINGS SERIALThis week in Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviews Return to Monkey Island.įor more major games Yahtz has reviewed lately, check out Splatoon 3 and Serial Cleaners, Soul Hackers 2, The Mortuary Assistant, Saints Row, Stray, No Man’s Sky (in 2022), and Elden Ring.
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