Returning to Monkey Island with its legendary creators - chatting all things Guybrush Threepwood with grumpygamer, phrenopolis and Rex Crowle
Ahead of Return to Monkey Island's release next week, I sat down with series creator Ron Gilbert, co-writer Dave Grossman and art director Rex Crowle to discuss the series' surprise revival. It's a project many thought would never happen, but which had actually been in secret development for two years before its April Fool's Day announcement a few months ago.
Not only was Gilbert interested in returning to the world of Guybrush Threepwood, but Dave Grossman was as well - and as soon as Devolver found this out, the company made a big push to Disney to get the licence. And get the licence it did - you could say everything clicked into place."I kept it a secret from my own son," Grossman told me, joking that his son would not be able to keep news about the game to himself.
"Probably about 15 years ago, when I was working on games with Media Molecule, I had just done this piece of fan art and thrown it out onto the internet and hadn't thought about it since. But Ron had saved that away and kept it," Crowle recalled when asked about joining the project."That was kind of the jumping off point really."
This playful attitude was echoed by Grossman."I don't think it was something we needed to do, it was just something we wanted to do," he told me. Gilbert said he felt that built-in hint systems, such as this, were much more appropriate for the series, and a better solution for players than heading to Google."[With this system] we actually know where you are in the game. We know what puzzles you've solved. We know what things you've seen, we know what inventory you have at the moment. So we can really tailor those questions to be a lot more specific than just kind of generally throwing something out there," he explained.
"I wrote all the stuff that happens in the courthouse, Dave did all the stuff that happens outside of the courthouse," Gilbert added."So you can kind of almost imagine this slight shift in personality. In the courthouse, the system is run by lunatics. Whereas outside it's sort of more responsible and you know, 'sober as a judge', so to speak."
Back in June, the creator shared a post which stated:"I'm shutting down comments. People are just being mean and I'm having to delete personal attack comments... I won't be posting anymore about the game. The joy of sharing has been driven from me." Other new faces in Return to Monkey Island include a new and"modern" trio of pirate leaders headed up by Captain Madison, but there will still be a large contingent of familiar faces making their return as well - including, interestingly, Murray the demonic talking skull.
"I personally disagree with Elaine and Guybrush ever getting married for a lot of reasons," Gilbert told me. However, he noted that if this romantic dynamic between the two was to be undone, there would be"a lot of issues" with fans. As such, Guybrush and Elaine are still married in Return to Monkey Island .
Even though Guybrush and Elaine are married, LeChuck still has his eyes set on Melee Island's former governor."That guy just never gives up, does he," joked Grossman."He's not smart enough to give up," added Gilbert.
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