The developers explain the completion of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge in several ways.
Monkey Island was also popular in Hungary in the first half of the 1990s; his graphic adventure game running on the LucasArts SCUMM engine was deservedly successful, but the completion of the second part wasn’t very explained. It’s been 30 years since (the original version of the game came out in December ’91), and two important individuals from the original developers are coming back to close the past. Ron Gilbert was the director and co-writer of The Secret of Monkey Island (Part One) and then the director of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge; And Dave Grossman worked as a co-writer for both “monkey islands” on the games.
Return to Monkey Island will be the sixth game of the franchise, but the Gilbert-Grossman duo will be third, so they will ignore the three games made after them as they realize the continuation of 2. The Adventure Gamersnek confirmed that they would explain what happened at the end of the second part (the protagonist, Guybrush Threepwood, takes off LeChuck’s mask after asking him to do so; we can see them as children in an amusement park, the parents welcome them and then Chuckie’s eyes turn red…).
Gilbert says if he really did the game as Monkey Island 3, people would say he’s just reaching for Escape from Monkey Island or The Curse of Monkey Island, and that’s why he doesn’t think he can do it. One of the important things for him was that this game would start right at the end of the second part when we were at the amusement park. It was a kind of stipulation for him to start here. He doesn’t want to go into details, but as expected from the Gilbert-Grossman duo, a lot of twists and turns will happen from there.
The pair have confirmed that Guybrush will return to Mêlée Island, where the first half of the first game will take place. In the case of Monkey Island, Gilbert was just joking: maybe he was being swept away, but there was no going on in the second part. Grossman added that Monkey Island 2 didn’t have the title Return to Monkey Island, which Gilbert nodded with laughter, so chances are the name might not be a coincidence… even though you know them?
Return to is being developed by Terrible Toybox Monkey Islandet Devolver Digital will release it on unknown platforms during 2022 (we wouldn’t rule out a PC for that matter…).
Source: VGC
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