Sea Of Thieves: The Legend Of Monkey Island Revealed, Even Original Creator Didn’t Know About It
An announcement of some really great new DLC for Sea of Thieves gets dovetailed with a genuinely surprising revelation.
We need to start with the game itself. In the Xbox Games Showcase for 2023, Rare revealed Sea of Thieves: The Legend of Monkey Island, upcoming story DLC made in collaboration with LucasArts, AKA Disney.
As reported by Video Games Chronicle, the DLC explores the what if scenario of Monkey Island falling into the Sea of Thieves decades after the games. The trailer shows you meeting up with Guybrush Threepwood himself.
Other characters you will run into include Elaine, the Captain LeChuck, Murray the Demonic Talking Skull, and more.
The interesting aspect of this DLC is that Rare, working with LucasArts, decided to make the DLC something of an adventure game itself, within the Sea of Thieves framework.
They tease what is described as “point-and-click” gameplay, though we don’t know if it will actually involve your Xbox controller getting remapped to function like a mouse. In the vein of that gameplay style, though, you will need to experiment by picking up objects, and using them to solve puzzles.
One major adaptation that fans will note is that this DLC is single player, and in Sea of Thieves’ first person perspective.
But now we must discuss the real surprise about this news, as it turns out that Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert revealed that he had no idea that this DLC was being made or planned. In his words, “all done without my knowledge or input.”
The legal ownership status of the Monkey Island franchise is not entirely publicly known. Ron got to make Return of Monkey Island, released in 2022. But, that came about after LucasFilm was bought out by Disney, and Ron tried to unsuccessfully convince
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