Just hearing the title ‘Monkey Island‘ gives fans of a certain vintage a nostalgic buzz, and that buzz is about to ignite into a full-blown flamethrower as Return to Monkey Island arrives later this year on PC and Nintendo Switch, and below is a look at the gameplay reveal trailer courtesy of Lucasfilm Games.
Former Lucasfilm Games designer Noah Falstein also discussed the game, having play tested the game and he had very good things to say about the forthcoming release.
“And the thing that amazed me most I experienced in the first ten minutes of the game and I can’t talk about it because… Ron and Dave managed to do something I would have thought was impossible in terms of storytelling and they pull it off I think admirably.
It’ll be worth the wait even if people are raving about parts they don’t like. Because this will certainly excite. There’s plenty in there to discuss for years to come.”
“I actually had a kind of a vision as I was looking at this and thinking about some of the elements of storytelling in it. That, at the Game Developers conference every year they now do a poster session for students who have been studying games and they will talk about a game and they, you know, are analysing it and I realized what they have done with Return to Monkey Island I fully expect will be the subject of Master’s and PhD thesis in times to come.”
Finally, news landed today that the director of the game Ron Gilbert has opted to stop posting about the game due to online abuse. Regrettable, that this much-loved gaming classic should be subject to such behaviour.
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