Hip, young pirate leaders led by Captain Madison have shuffled the old guard from power, Melee Island has taken a turn for the worse, and famed businessman Stan has been imprisoned for ‘marketing-related crimes’.īanter with old friends and new faces on familiar islands now under dangerous new leadership. His true love, Elaine Marley, has turned her focus away from governing and Guybrush himself is adrift and unfulfilled, having never found the Secret of Monkey Island. It’s been many years since Guybrush Threepwood was last locked in a battle of wits with his nemesis, the zombie pirate LeChuck. Writer and co-designer of the earlier games, Dave Grossman, will fulfill similar duties on the new title, and Dominic Armato returns as the voice of protagonist Guybrush Threepwood.Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge developed in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games.
The trailer does point out that it's a joint effort between LucasFilm Games, Devolver Digital, and Gilbert's studio Terrible Toybox. It is unclear, judging by Devolver's 57-second trailer, if the new game follows Gilbert's thoughts from two years ago. "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," Gilbert said. In 2020, Gilbert told the Video Game History Foundation that he already had Monkey Island 3 roughed out in his head. He even made a half-hearted plea to Disney to sell him back the rights in 2016.ĭear now that you're not making games, please sell me my Monkey Island and Mansion Mansion IP. Gilbert had talked about wanting to do a third installment hilariously called "Monkey Island 3: The Secret Revealed or Your Money Back," but since he no longer had rights or ties to LucasArts, there was not much he could do. Although the game was a sequel to MI2, it discounted that story's ending and went a different direction. After a six-year lull, LucasArts released the third game, The Curse of Monkey Island, without him.
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