Absolutely incredible, almost unbelievable news! I had long given up hope of ever seeing another Monkey Island game made by Ron Gilbert. It's been 31 years since the last one! I'm not overly keen on the art style glimpsed in the trailer, mind. It reminds me a little too much of the pig ugly special edition of the original game...
The Secret of Monkey Island (1990 VGA original)
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition (2009)
Return to Monkey Island (2022)
It's the characters that I'm particularly not fond of. I'm just not a fan of Rex Crowle's art style. Having said that, hopefully I'll eventually warm to the art style of the new game, as I did for
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker (a game which I thought looked shockingly hideous upon reveal but have since come to regard as the best looking Zelda game in the entire series. Sometimes it just takes time to adjust to a bold new aesthetic). Ideally I would have liked to have seen a return to the more realistic style of the original two games...
The Secret of Monkey Island (1990 VGA original)
...or something more akin to Bill Tiller's gorgeous artwork from
The Curse of Monkey Island, if they wanted a more cartoony style...
The Curse of Monkey Island (1997)
Either way, I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth, as this is undoubtedly the single biggest reveal in the history of adventure games and I'm a MASSIVE fan of the genre, so this announcement of a new Ron Gilbert continuation of the most famous and renowned adventure game series of all time gets one big thumbs up from me and I can now die happy.
