![]() This is a common experience we share across a wide age range – from the old to the young. Those of us who love pirates more than average most of us would point to the Pirates of the Caribbean rides as the most influential element in our piratey formative years. Monkey Island represents a strange yet significant event in pirate history. And those in the know? They told us time and again to give up – there would be no more Monkey Islands. Some fansites remained, although others had shut down for lack of material or purpose. True, it remained close to our hearts, but rarely at the forefront of our minds. Oh, you probably want a link, don’t you? Posted in News | Tagged monkey island | 4 Replies I wonder what happens in Tales of Monkey Island But it’s available for just about everything: XBLA, PSN, Steam, iPhone and iPad. We finally get to hear the tune for “I’d rather be a pirate on Scabb than a scab on a pirate…”ĭon’t bother rushing to a store, because this game is only available online.We finally get to hear Captain Dread speak in slick Jamaican.LeChuck Zombie looks worlds better than LeChuck ghost did.Of course, you should probably play the first Monkey Island Special Edition before hitting this sequel, but know this – I’ve not yet played it, but already MI2:SE is the superior product for the following reasons: And if you’re new to Monkey Island, then this revamp of LeChuck’s Revenge is about the best introduction you could hope to come across – new music, new graphics, and yet scene-for-scene, line for line IDENTICAL to the low res pixelated original. If you spent your piratey adolescence with Guybrush, LeChuck, Marty, Largo, and more monkeys than you can count, then today you’ll get to revisit your youth in re-rendered updated splendor. Continue reading → Posted in Commentary | Tagged monkey island, secret of monkey island, wild speculation | 1 Reply LeChuck’s Theme Gets All Funky-fied! And yes, Ron Gilbert has pulled a sneaky. BUT… then I made a discovery that blew the lid off the whole affair-the final piece of the enigma that is Monkey Island. So, back to square one, with little-to-no hope of learning the secret. I’ve played the game through, collected all the verses for the Ultimate Sea Shanty, and aside from one very over-powered feather duster, narry a single Monkey Island reference was to be found. I’d thought that just maybe Gilbert had pulled a sneaky and made this the “secret” conclusion to his Monkey Island trilogy. It’s a fun match-three type game that revolves around the quest for the Ultimate Sea Shanty. I did have hope a few years back-albeit briefly-when Gilbert announced the release of a non-Monkey Island pirate game called Scurvy Scallywags. So, what’s the true secret of Monkey Island? Some days I feared we might never know. In fact, he’s even said as much in interviews.” Everything that followed was more of an extended alternate timeline, and doesn’t reflect Gilbert’s vision for the true trilogy-or its secret. Ron Gilbert wasn’t part of those further releases, meaning only the first two of the series are OG Monkey Island. ![]() ![]() “And you’re correct on all counts, but you’re forgetting one important detail. And besides all that, in Escape the secret of Monkey Island was clearly revealed to be that the giant monkey head was actually part of a giant monkey robot.” After The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge, we had The Curse of Monkey Island, and then Escape from Monkey Island, and finally Tales of Monkey Island. There’s no ‘never-created’ third chapter. But the series creator, Ron Gilbert, has claimed that there actually is another, greater secret-one meant to be revealed in the trilogy’s never-created final chapter. Yes, the original game was called The Secret of Monkey Island, and yes, the game revealed that the ghost pirate LeChuck had been hiding out on Monkey Island, which could, clearly, be considered the island’s secret. I think I’ve actually discovered something significantly game-changing about Monkey Island that I’ve never seen discussed elsewhere.įirst, some backstory. In truth, all I did was finally get an ingame joke that had gone over my head all these years. So just about a year ago, I boldly stated that I’d solved the secret of Monkey Island.
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