So: The Secret of Monkey Island is a comic adventure set in Caribbean during Pirate Times. Gilbert worked on a few more point n' click games in the late eighties before directing and designing The Secret of Monkey Island, released on the PC in 1990.
Its NES port came out in the United States in 1990, where it was my introduction to the point n' click genre and became entangled with my destiny in some truly bizarre ways. That game was the seminal point n' click adventure Maniac Mansion, which was released on the PC in 1987. Was given the greenlight to develop his own game in 1985. Got a job with Lucasfilm Games (later LucasArts) a couple years after graduating from college. So bear in mind that I hadn't been waiting thirty years for another Monkey Island game masterminded by Ron Gilbert, though I was still excited enough to make Return to Monkey Island the first game I've preordered in several years.Ĭoncerning Ron Gilbert-well, let's look at his Wikipedia page. I was dimly aware of it around the time I was playing Day of the Tentacle and Sam & Max Hit the Road (1994ish) but didn't actually play any of the games until Shirley and I blazed through the whole series between July and October of 2020. I should state for the record that I'm a relative newcomer to Monkey Island. If you are familiar with the series, well, enjoy the walk down memory lane. To understand why there are grown-ass adults filled with despair and angst after completing Return to Monkey Island, you need to know the timeline and the background of these games. In case you happen to be reading this and aren't familiar with the Monkey Island games, we should probably start from the beginning. Also, most of the screenshots were captured by other people. Like Ron Gilbert's previous game, 2017's Thimbleweed Park, Return to Monkey Island reminded me why I don't play video games much anymore-and maybe that's a good thing. I know I will be saying nothing that hasn't already been promulgated throughout the message boards and social networks of people who play games, or been the subject of a thousand YouTube monologues.
In spite of all the admonitions of my reason (and though I've got something else I really ought to be finishing), I'm compelled to offer my paltry observations of Return to Monkey Island and its reception.
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