The secret of monkey island trailer12/29/2023 ![]() Return to Monkey Island is positioned to be a game that long-time Monkey Island fans have waited almost 30 years for, releasing close to the 30th anniversary of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. The game's trailer even features Murray, a character introduced in Curse of Monkey Island. This game is set to be Ron Gilbert's planned follow-up to Monkey Island 2, however, Gilbert has revealed that the game will not write the events of Curse of Monkey Island, Escape From Monkey Island, or Tales of Monkey Island out of canon. Now, after 13 years since the release of Tales of Monkey Island, and nearly a decade since Disney acquired LucasFilm, Return to Monkey Island has been announced. This remaster was followed in 2010 by Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge Special Edition, incorporating the same features for the sequel on top of voice acting and enhanced original game's visuals. This brought the first game to modern consoles with the option to play with new, hand-drawn visuals, voice acting incorporating much of the cast from Curse of Monkey Island, and a new soundtrack. This lasted until 2009, when LucasArts released a remaster of the first game titled The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition. The Monkey Island series continued with Escape From Monkey Island in 2000, the first 3D entry in the series, until taking another break. ![]() ![]() Despite Gilbert's absence on this title, he has since praised the game and many consider Curse of Monkey Island to be the best in the series. Ron Gilbert has said in recent years that he has planned his version of a third Monkey Island, however LucasArts later followed it up itself with 1997's Curse of Monkey Island, which largely ignored Monkey Island 2's ending. However, it's clear that the game was intended to be followed up by a third entry. Monkey Island 2 also featured a major twist ending, one that is still controversial even to this day. As the Monkey Island series has taken an extended hiatus, it can be hard for those unfamiliar with the series to grasp why Return to Monkey Island's announcement is a big deal. Return to Monkey Island, the long anticipated next entry in the beloved adventure game series, has finally been revealed as a collaboration between Terrible Toybox, Devolver Digital, and LucasFilm Games. That all changed this week however when Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert revealed that his development studio Terrible Toybox has been secretly making a new Monkey Island for two years. Since then, it's seemed that LucasArts' classic titles like Monkey Island would be forever gone, outside of the surprising remasters of Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle, and Full Throttle from ex-LucasArts developers at Double Fine Productions. For almost a decade now, the Monkey Island franchise has been considered dead, with its original developer LucasArts shutting down in 2012 after Disney acquired LucasFilm for $4.05 billion.
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