Come watch the trailer announcingReturn To Monkey Island.
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.
I’ll pay real actual money for them.
Ona Video Game History Foundation livestreamin 2020, Gilbert said that he had “the broad strokes” settled.
This here new third (sixth?)
Monkey Island is made by Terrible Toybox, the studio where Gilbert and chums madedecent adventure game Thimbleweed Park.
Gilbert is leading Return To Monkey Island with an impressive team.
And LucasArts composers Michael Land, Peter McConnel, and Clint Bajakian are doing music.
And Dominic Armato is back as the excellent voice of Guybrush Threepwood.
And the new art directoris Rex Crowle, the artist behind the oh-so-pretty Knights And Bikes.
And MI3’s breakout star, Murray the demonic talking skull, is at least in the trailer?
The game is due to launch sometime in 2022.
For now, I guess keep an eye onits website.
How strange and wonderful.
