Lots of people had been excited when it was introduced final month that Ron Gilbert could be engaged on one other Monkey Island recreation. Whereas some anticipate this to be in the identical old skool vein because the remakes, Glbert himself has defined that he wished to push the collection ahead somewhat than embrace the previous entries.
Speaking to Grump Gamer Weblog (by way of GamingBolt), he explains, “Monkey Island 1 and a pair of weren’t pixel artwork video games… They had been video games utilizing state-of-the-art tech and artwork… If I had stayed and executed Monkey Island 3, it wouldn’t have regarded like Monkey Island 2.”
When it got here to adapting the identical look of the earlier video games into Return to Monkey Island, Gilbert stated, “It didn’t really feel proper… We didn’t wish to make a retro recreation… I wished to maintain shifting Monkey Island ahead as a result of it’s attention-grabbing, enjoyable, and thrilling. It’s what the Monkey Island video games have at all times executed. I wished the artwork in Return to Monkey Island to be provocative, stunning, and never what everybody was anticipating.”
Gilbert already admits that there could be some followers not happy with the course that he wished to take the sport, however he does iterate that the sport is in ‘the artwork type I wished.’ Hopefully the studio higher-ups stick with Gilbert’s resolution, somewhat than attempt to alter the product to please the lots.
Fingers crossed we get a trailer quickly.
Return to Monkey Island has no particular launch date, however is about to return out someday later this 12 months.
