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Mancomb Seepgood is an MI inspired ‘interactive’ comic by LaFlu.

The mad maze took me longer than expected, at least I got rich and did not die.

Too many individual pixels. I wait for the Darkside Detective conversion.

No news about this in a minute. Well, I guess it hasn’t really been that long but I’d like to see some actual gameplay since it’s coming out this year.

Some tidbits about the game from Noah Falstein, a developer from Lucasfilm Games who worked on Last Crusade and Fate of Atlantis who’s playtested the game:

““in the first 10 minutes of the game, Ron and Dave managed to do something I would have thought was impossible in terms of storytelling

t’ll be worth the wait even if people are raving about parts they don’t like. Because this will certainly excite. There’s plenty in there to discuss for years to come. I actually had a kind of a vision as I was looking at this and thinking about some of the elements of storytelling in it.

That, at the Game Developers conference every year they now do a poster session for students who have been studying games and they will talk about a game and they, you know, are analysing it and I realized what they have done with Return to Monkey Island I fully expect will be the subject of Master’s and PhD thesis in times to come.

Just because there’re so many interesting ways of telling a story and exploration of what an interactive storytelling is all about that, you know, on a very serious scholarly level. Not to make this sound stuffy at all, but it’s just so deep that I think that people will find it fascinating for years to come.”

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This sounds so exciting!
It sounds like they’re actually doing something interesting and different here. I’m so curious to find it what the opening of this game actually is.

I really can’t wait for this game to come out!

Charophycean - 25 June 2022 10:38 AM

Yes, for me that quote from Noah is the most interesting thing yet to come out about the game. I wasn’t very excited at first about the game because we have enough Monkey Island sequels where it’s just another comedy game featuring Guybrush - why should this time be different, besides Ron Gilbert being involved? This goes some way to answering that question.

I’m not gonna say I wasn’t excited before, because I was, very much so. But this quote has made me a lot more excited!
Like you said this implies it will be something more than just another Monkey Island game, which is what I always hoped this would be.
I would love it if time has passed in real time and kid Guybrush is now in his 30’s when this new adventure begins. Maybe he has always wondered if everything he went through during the previous games was really just a dream? Maybe the game is you revisiting locations trying to find out if MI1 and 2 actually happened?
But maybe that scenario isn’t out there enough for Noah’s quote to fit.
Either way super excited to find out!

I expect RTMI to be the best p&c adventure released in 2022 due to the people being involved, the production values, the music, the writing, the puzzles etc. It would be disappointing if it won’t be the best in the series.

Monkey Island just isn’t my most favorite IP. The setting is good but not great. It’s not always my type of humor. Some characters are rather annoying and boring. Some scenes and gameplay feel off. None is fully convincing, but each MI also offers a number of aspects which are very strong (EGA graphics in MI1, the music in MI2, the overall in MI3). I had to force myself finishing MI4 and Tales.

I’m confident that it will be a nice adventure and I’m looking forward to it. If I had to choose, I would have favored a true sequel to Maniac Mansion (with its six characters), of course a succsessor to The Dig or something new, but that’s not happening right now, so, it’s gonna be RTMI.

Bam.

I like how the cook looks like.

And Guybrush, looks better than in the SEs.

Still looks like bootleg tim burton animation, just not my jam. The voiceover was great