There are those who have an answer for everything and then there is Ron Gilbert. The release of Return to Monkey Island is just around the corner and, as is tradition, along with the announcement of its date, digital pre-orders have opened. As expected, it didn’t take long for adventurers to launch the eShop and Steam, and in the process, they found a very curious figure on the label: 22,99 dollars. . . . Another wink at The Secret of Monkey Island?
To put us in context, at the end of the 1991 game (and its remake) Guybrush Threepwood He has a delirious conversation with his beloved Elaine Marley, allowing us to choose the craziest phrase on each occasion. At the end of this sequence, three possible response options without consequence for the player. Among them, a phrase that is video game living history: “Do not pay more than twenty dollars for a video game“
It is a free translation of the original version, which would come to mean “pay no more than 20 bucks (Dollars) for a video game“and that, irremediably, the saga’s own fans have reminded Gilbert regarding the price of Return to Monkey Island. The difference is not much, things as they are, but Gilbert definitely does not usually leave neither puzzles nor jokes untied. And this will not be the exception.
Ron Gilbert dedicated a tweet to him to all those who complain that Return to Monkey Island is worth more than 20 dollars, although Guybrush thinks it is too much, with a curious image that, precisely, fits the original ending of The Secret of Monkey Island according to current inflation. The result?
Pay no more than 44 bucks and 39 cents for a video game (adjusted for inflation)
Coincidence or not, Ron Gilbert’s tweet and image with the “updated” ending of The Secret of Monkey Island It comes a few hours after Sony decided to raise the price of PS5 based on high inflation rates. Now we will be left with the question of whether this brilliant answer will have occurred to him before or after the official PlayStation statement.
What we are very clear about is that Return to Monkey Island will be played on PC and Nintendo Switch starting next September 19th. And beware, all game reservations come with horse armor that cannot be used in the game and will not apply to the story or the puzzles. But that, according to Gilbert, “is the most exclusive“. Genius and figure, until the grave.
