It is surely one of the best-known and most remembered franchises in the history of video games, the one that was inspired by the old Pirates of the Caribbean attraction in the Disney parks and that captivated us thanks to two graphic adventures in the early 1990s. an epic pyratile where Guybrush, Eleaine and the pirate LeChuck always have one last joke to put in their mouths. Now they all come back with The Legend of Monkey Island.
This new installment, which is not such, will be a kind of own adventure inserted in 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 an argument, a story in which Many of the protagonists of the original games meet again. So, as you can imagine, the community of Monkey Island It’s been messing around for a few days.
a little mistrust
But if you want, we are going to put everyone in the background beforehand to find out what has happened, and it is nothing more than the saga Monkey Island is now owned by Disney, what was done with it when George Lucas sold his entire empire to Bob Iger’s. Not just the franchise Star Warsbut everything else: Willow, Indiana Jones and, of course, all the intellectual properties of its video game division, Lucasfilm Games at first and LucasArts later.
That is why the arrival of The Legend of Monkey Island It has not been so much an impulse carried out by the original minds that launched the first two video games more than 30 years ago, as a collaboration signed between Microsoft (owner of Rare) and Disney, as the owner of the exploitation of those rights. All of the above leads us to a scenario that makes us wonder, with obvious concern, What’s Ron Gilbert doing in all this?
And this is where we want to arrive, because in the presentation trailer of The Legend of Monkey Island we have seen a Guybrush Treepwood turned Governor, LeChuck showing off his bad mood and even Stan himself selling the donkey with ships that sink as soon as you set foot on them. Perhaps all those events that are narrated have passed through the hands of one of their creators? what we play inside sea of thieves can we consider it canon of the saga?
Ron Gilbert had no idea
What is really surprising, after the success of Return to Monkey Island last year, is that They have not had the person who knows the franchise best. A Rol Gilbert who has come to confess that «No. They didn’t even tell me. It happened behind my back”, so no one knows what –arguably– we may find ourselves as soon as we set foot on Mêlée Island.
Obviously, from the part of the developer of the game, Terrible Box, they have wanted to come out of the way remembering that they did warn him, although with nuances: “Disney tipped him off about the project out of courtesy, but the game was very far along at the time and he wasn’t given the opportunity to participate in any meaningful way. cares deeply about Monkey Island and wishes the Rare team well with the project.”
