Return to Monkey Island: Surprise! Ron Gilbert announces new Monkey Island

On this message, Adventure fans have been waiting for almost 25 years: Ron Gilbert will release a new Monkey Island this year! The game listens to the title Return to Monkey Island and is developed by Terrible Toybox - so the same team that has already developed Ron Gilberts Thimbleweed Park. The Adventure was surprisingly announced with a first trailer, a teaser site is already online. Official information is still rare, but we already have the most important corner data. Return to Monkey Island is to build on the controversial end of Monkey Island 2: Lechuck's Revenge and continue Guybrush Threepwood's history. This is why it is very likely that the great third part of The Curse of Monkey Island and the (disappointing) successor Escape from Monkey Island are largely ignored. Even Tales from Monkey Island should no longer play a role, after all, Ron Gilbert wants to continue his own story: Already often Gilbert had expressed the wish to develop a "real" Monkey Island 3, but only on the condition that he had creative freedom and The story of Monkey Island 2 could continue. That's obviously the case. In one point, however, Gilbert is deviated from his plans: originally he wanted to "be" Monkey Island 3 in a retro graphic style, similar to how to do it at Thimbleweed Park. However, the first trailer shows that Return to Monkey Island will rather set a high-contrast comic style. As it seems, Monkey Island makes a stylish change again.

All important insights into Return of Monkey Island summarized

• The game is developed by Terrible Toybox (Thimbleweed Park), as publishers are Devolver Digital and Lucasfilm Games on board
• Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman are responsible for the script and the game design. Gilbert and Grossman had already developed the first two games together with Tim Schaffer. Grossman was later responsible for Telltale for various projects such as Sam & Max. Tim Scherer is not an apparently involved in Return to Monkey Island.
• The music comes from the feather of Michael Land, Peter McConnell and Clint Bajakian, which were largely involved in many Lucasart's titles in the early 1990s. The three composers and sound designers have not only created the iconic melodies from Monkey Island, but also designed the iMuse system and playing the soundtracks like Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, The Dig, Outlaws or Psychonauts composed.
• Dominic Armato will once again take over the English speaking role of Guybrush Threepwood. Armato has set Guybrush since Curse of Monkey Island and is considered a huge fan of the series. His achievements as spokesman have introduced him a lot of praise from the Monkey-Island-Fangemeinde.
• An interesting detail from the teaser trailer: Murray, the demonic skull, is also visible and may even give a few words to the best. That's interesting because Murray had his first appearance in Curse of Monkey Island. Has Gilbert made the figure just? Or is Return of Monkey Island maybe pick part by Curse of Monkey Island?

* The teaser site is most likely not monkey Island, but Mêlée Island. Guybrush Threepwood's pirate adventure began on this island. * The game should appear 2022, platforms have not yet been mentioned. But one can look at a PC version as set. * According to Ron Gilbert, the team has been working on the game for 2 years.

Incidentally, the announcement of Return to Monkey Island will be expected for us a year later than expected: Already in January 2021, it became known that Lucasfilm Games - if only as a brand - was to be revived. In his column Felix immediately hoped for a new Monkey Island. Preferably a Monkey Island 3 - from the feather of Ron Gilbert. Now that the desire was heard more or less - what do you think about the announcement? What expectations, questions and fears do you have to Return of Monkey Island? We would be happy to receive your comments!

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