It’s surely one of the best-known and most memorable franchises in video game history, one that was inspired by the old Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Disney parks and captivated us with two graphic adventures in the early 1990s. An epic of pirate where Guybrush, Eleaine and pirate LeChuck always have one last joke to get their teeth into. Now they all come back with The Legend of Monkey Island.
This new opus, which is not one, will be a sort of own adventure inserted into the guts of Sea of Thieves. Rare’s game that is actually an MMORPG but for this occasion it will put aside its typical multiplayer to focus on a dispute, a story in which Many of the protagonists from the original games reunite. So, as you can imagine, the community of monkey island It’s been noisy for a few days.
a little mistrust
But if you want, we’ll put everyone in the front background to find out what happened, and that’s nothing more than to the saga monkey island now owned by Disney, what was done with it when George Lucas sold his entire empire to Bob Iger. Not just the franchise star warsbut everything else: willow, IndianaJones and, of course, all the intellectual properties of its video game division, first Lucasfilm Games and later LucasArts.
This is why the arrival of The Legend of Monkey Island It’s not so much a push from the original minds that launched the first two video games over 30 years ago, as a signed collaboration between Microsoft (owner of Rare) and Disney, as owner of the exploitation of these rights. . All of the above brings us to a scenario that makes us wonder, with obvious concern, What is Ron Gilbert doing in all this?
And that’s where we want to go, because in the presentation trailer of The Legend of Monkey Island we have seen a Guybrush Treepwood become Governor, LeChuck show his bad humor and even Stan himself sell the donkey with boats that sink as soon as you set foot on it. Maybe all these events that are recounted have passed into the hands of one of their creators? what we play inside sea of thieves can we consider it as canon of the saga?
Ron Gilbert had no idea
What is really surprising, after the success of Back to Monkey Island last year, did They didn’t have the person who knows the franchise best. A Rol Gilbert came to admit that “No. They didn’t even tell me. It happened behind my back,” so no one knows what we might end up with once we set foot on Melee Island.
Obviously, from the developer of the game, Terrible Box, they wanted to get out of the way remembering that they warned him, although with nuances“Disney told him about the project as a courtesy, but the game was very advanced at the time and he didn’t have the opportunity to participate in it in any meaningful way. [Gilbert] cares deeply about Monkey Island and wishes the team at Rare well with the project.”
It is we did what we wanted and when we understood that nothing could be changed anymore, we told him. No? What do you think? Are you going to play with this? Nuevo Monkey Island?
