Return To Monkey Island will explain second game’s bizarre ending – won’t ignore the previous games

metro.co.uk:

Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman have shared some of their plans for Return To Monkey Island, as well as the first screenshots.

Easily the best April Fool announcement of 2022 was a new Monkey Island game, because this one was actually real. Not only that, but series creators Ron Gilbert and David Grossman are spearheading development and it’s coming out this year.

The announcement trailer didn’t reveal much beyond that, although Return To Monkey Island is described as a follow-up to the first two games, suggesting that it will ignore everything that came afterwards.

Gilbert and Grossman have since explained their plans in a bit more detail, including that the new game will pick up right where the second game, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge, ended.

‘One of the things that was very important to me about this was that I did want the game to start right at the end of Monkey Island 2, when you walk into that amusement park. I wanted the game to start there,’ says Gilbert.

‘That was kind of my one criteria: we need to start the game there. I don’t want to go into all the details of it, but we do start there, and then it takes lots of weird twists and turns that you would expect from us.’

This suggests that fans will finally get an explanation for Monkey Island 2’s frankly bizarre ending (WARNING: spoilers for a 31-year-old video game).

During the final confrontation between protagonist Guybrush Threepwood and the villainous pirate LeChuck, it’s revealed that LeChuck is Guybrush’s brother Chuckie.

Then a workman comes into the small room they’re in and tells them they’re not supposed to be there, they leave and become children in a Disneyland style amusement park.

Is this meant to imply that everything was just two brothers playing