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Look… I’m not saying that I was dumb enough to try and change my Switch internal clock to September 19th to play the game… but according to my sources it does not work.

Monkey Island 1 is out. It has an infinite number of roadside locations on Melee Island, it's just they all start to look the same.

One thing I missed earlier... in the Monkey Monday with Murray at the Monkey head, Murray complains that people kept "dropping him in cauldrons of glop for some reason". Indicating people were using him as the Human Skull (pressed) ingredient for Monkey Island's directions. Which indicates that Guybrush himself will NOT be using Murray as an ingredient in voodoo soup to reach Monkey Island.

I can wait! Which is not a typo, but a simple statement about the last 31 years. And I also can't wait! Which is a statement about the last few days.

Here lies smirk with a wit that could cut but he wouldn’t quit smoking so now he’s kaput.

Hat Monkey owns the gym now.

For me, I was looking for something to put on the meat to poison it, thanks to the Pirate Leaders. Things I recommend: - Add the flower to the meat by putting them both in the pot, for a thematic line from Guybrush. - Try begging for 2 pieces of eight from random pirates, after you learn Otis needs a mint but before getting money. - Give the troll wrong things three times, then ask about it. -Try to fill the Ming vase with grog. -Try to buy a file. - Haggle for a better deal than 5000 pieces of eight and no extras. - On Monkey Island's vista, use the telescope while the art is pointed to the corner, to let the Lookout of Mêlée catch a glimpse of you. -At the end, save your game before talking to LeChuck at the wedding. ALL of these dialogue paths are gold. I'm a fan of the variant where Guybrush says he has a wife and kids (Elaine shouting "I heard that!"), and later Elaine commenting about something her husband would say. Wholesome back-and-forth?

I think there's a reason they're being coy with how much and how actively this game connects to Curse/Escape/Tales, as well as where exactly it falls on the timeline in relation. My gut feeling is that being any more specific now would pre-empt something that's central to this game. What that is I have no idea, but the lack of any kind of 100% straight answer feels very purposeful.

All the novels aside, this was probably my absolute favorite SW book ever: This was years before the prequels, so it didn't give shit about canon (plus it just re-purposed McQuarrie's unused concept art for its own stories), but to 12-year-old me THIS was the much-needed glance into the corners of the SW universe not seen in the films. And it wasn't about action or great adventures, it was written in the form of travel diaries by "explorers", describing the lives of regular people in the SW universe, something I'm an absolute sucker for. Also, it had that amazing 70s sci-fi style that McQ's art just oozed with. (Plus, my copy got signed by David Prowse - not that it has anything to do with Vader).

Ooooor the could only get Boen for the pirate leader. 😂

Now let's get Mojo's army of hackers to crack the game open. I'd settle for a soundtrack rip for now.

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Revenge is only 1 because they aren't actually islands they are all connected whoooaaaaahhhh...

I get this point, but I read that book as a kid and it was more like a weird creative writing challenge than at attempt at building out a cohesive lore. The stories were written by a bunch of different authors, and they each took their stories in wildly different directions in terms of tone and genre, and it didn't tie into anything else. It's not a classic by any means, but I can recall more details from the stories than I do from many of the main EU novels. I found it disconcertingly avant garde, and it didn't seem like anyone was monitoring the brand very closely. The wobbly continuity of Star Wars in the 90s had a charm to it that I don't associate with the brand any more. I had a book called 'The Essential Guide to Characters', which re-read a lot because it had a bunch of characters that came from outside the EU I was familiar with. There was stuff like the Ewoks cartoon series, the Marvel comic books, and a middle-grade chapter book series where the Emperor had a long-lost kid called ... Triclops. Just piles of stuff from a whole range of licencees who obviously never talked to each other. This book purported to reconcile all of it, but really just drew attention to the depth of imagination required in order to piece together how ramshackle and incongruent it all was. Here's the cover: Like, I love that Vader and Leia are just kind of buried in the background behind random aliens, and that C-3PO is from a comic book adaptation of the Droids cartoon series. Who's that lady in the front? I couldn't tell you, and I spent many afternoons sprawled on the floor reading this book. This was a thick black and white paperback with lots of drawings of the characters, and I think it had some things in common with a role-playing source book. To me, it made it feel like Star Wars was a weird world where anyone could add a character or a time period and mess around however they wanted to.

I will repeat my prediction that he was killed by tripping and falling on The Machine immediately after the lesson, which is why he never answers the door again.

EXCEPT in the opening scene of Escape where elaine calls Guybrush “Snugglecakes”!!! Why is she calling him the nickname of one of the pirate barbers of Puerto Pollo? An innocent slip of the tongue, or something far more damning??

I have tried my hand at making a few for myself though they are not great since I rely on whatever I find over the internet which is not that good, so far I made the three Alone in the Dark and Kyrandia 3 but they are far from perfect (though they look great on print ;P). I also recently made a small amount of posters from some of the old SSI and D&D games I found the art of at a really nice quality so I made them for the Eye of the Beholder 1-3 games, Al-Qadim, Pool of Radiance and 2 for Ravenloft and I really like how they came out. I mostly wanted to display the original art and not the cropped versions used on some of the covers since I loved the art but those covers were kind of ugly, but I made a frame to simulate the feel of the original box a bit with the titles (some with a different font) and I added the much needed artist credits. You can find them here if you are interested in those: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Sq-jQPewL6O9f9q2IeccjkpPuTulB4Px?usp=sharing This is how they look if you don't want to browse the link.

While I've been planning to give Peter Chan's Star Wars DOTT artwork a make-over at some point, LRG's announcement of DOTT Remastered somehow put this on the fast lane. I wasn't really convinced by the poster they decided to include, so I got down to business, planning to offer them a new print-ready version of the art as an option. How could they say no to that? Well, while LRG seemed to be interested, Disney ultimately wasn't. So, here's the result of this effort, adding a much-needed improvement over my old version, both in terms of colors and detail. No more artficial brush strokes and oversharpened edges to suggest detail. I even separated the color channels of the scan to fix the severe alignment issues the Adventurer print suffered from, removing the color fringes and blurry edges caused by that. A few comparisons (at 70% size, enough to show the differences):

Just watched the IGN scrapbook video. Dom does such a great job here of inserting genuine emotion into Guybrush's character, specifically when talking about Elaine.

That puzzle has definitely been a sticking point for let's players I've been watching, but not as much as, say.... that dang seagull

I'm finally replaying MI1 in prep for next Monday (I mean I feel like I know the first three games off by heart)... and I'm sort of trying to break the game a little by NOT doing what it wants me to. Like I'm NOT talking to the Important Looking Pirates, etc. A nice little detail: You get slightly different dialogue if you talk to Otis before you talk to Shinetop (and you don't get the "pssst" scene, oddly). I love that stuff. Anyway, playing it again just reminded me of the sleeping poodles puzzle: Was this the "monkey wrench" of MI1? Apparently the flowers are called "Caniche Endormi" but you only get that hint* from Otis if you select one particular dialogue choice at one particular point. If you miss it, it's gone forever. * - Yes, apparently the flower's name is French for "sleeping poodle". So how was anyone supposed to know that the flowers has a drowsy effect on dogs? Or poodles in particular? There's no clues anywhere in the game to that effect... is there? Certain flowers have a poisonous effect on dogs, but is it widely known that they will get drowsy? Or is the idea that he was poisoning them, hence the "They're only sleeping!" message that pops up? Maybe I just missed the dogs + flowers piece of general knowledge?

I'm not going to bring it up any more. But I'm holding out hope for a surprise reveal of his poster closer to release.

This is absolutely wonderful !!! It's been barely a week since I posted some of these SSI game artworks on Twitter wondering how to find them in better quality! Thank you 10000 times !!! And please don't stop!! And maybe one of you has this artwork in good quality? I would be very grateful ❤️

Right! That's what I meant. After they decided to tighten canon, the stuff they wrote afterward was C-Canon. Part of the continuity. The stuff from before was S-Canon. Secondary. Maybe it fit in, but no promises? Of course, the whole thing kind of buckled under when George created the Clone Wars cartoon and decided to contradict the nature of the CIS from Episodes II and III, meaning that a T-Canon show was superceding G-Canon films because George said so... but those were the end years when he was touching more things. https://screenrant.com/clone-wars-trade-federation-retcon-lucas-idea/

Looks like IGN's coverage has some exclusive footage. For anyone interested, I don't think the look at the scrapbook here is particularly spoilery. It doesn't reveal anything about how MI2 ends, for example, but it does show how the scrapbook will work in practice. I really like the nods to MI2's copy protection in the background of that MI2 page.

I'm still not giving up hope.

This, for a while, seemed to be all he did. LucasArts was a sandbox created for other people to play in (“just don’t lose money”), and ILM increasingly became the toybox a set of other directors could play with when making effects-filled blockbusters. George as benevolent king of a quality-first entertainment empire was the impression I had when I was the most engaged with it all, in the mid 90s before the special editions started to unravel things, then the phantom menace hit.

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I feel about Curse of Monkey Island similarly to how I feel about TFA. I think it's a very enjoyable game/film that is also markedly unambitious in its story scope. It hits a lot of very similar points to ones that people liked about the previous games/films, but I don't blame it for that. I see it as a trust-building excercise. New game/film, new creators. They have expectations on their shoulders and the first thing they want to prove is that they can make a regular-ass game/film in the series that meets the kind of expectations people have for This Sort Of Thing. After they've proved they can do that, then maybe they can get a bit braver. I think Rian Johnson was rather hoping that since TFA had been well received on the whole he might be able to take some things in a surprising direction, which very much worked for me, but apparently not everyone. While EMI really does get a lot wilder with its plot than CMI ever attempts, and with that one I'm in the camp of people it didn't quite work for. I think this is an extremely revisionist way of looking at what happened there. Most people still liked TLJ. The ones that didn't like it most were a minority of loud, angry nerds who yelled and yelled until Disney chickened out, brought Abrams back (because people liked that first one), and then desperately scrambled to insert the familiar i.e. palpatine into the story in a rather pathetic attempt to appease them. TRoS is what happens when you listen TOO MUCH to nerds. (And besides the bits of TRoS that were pew pew kaboom adventure were the only good things about it)

The 90s were a time when, to me, it felt like George was basically hands-off SW. He created a sandbox for other people to play in, and that's what the EU did.

It may have evolved that way, but to begin with Star Wars was just a little space adventure. A stand-alone one, at that. Lucas always maintained that he had a big story planned out and decided to start in the middle, but none of that holds under scrutiny. He simply hit the motherlode and needed to take advantage of it. (Not that I begrudge him that, but it's a bit annoying because a generation of people have grown up thinking that's how the creative process works: It's all perfectly planned from the start.)

Ah, I love the comedy! So much fun. (And something that landed flat in Skull )

But of course he's also stated that

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Yup, seeing "Return to Monkey Island" download is just surreal. It's real, it's actually happening lol

Now, however, it does.

Since Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina has been mentioned twice now, you guys get my fansong. It used to be on the Star Wars Miniatures forums and a Warcraft lore forum, before they got shut down. Tales from the Cantina Band (I had another one with the Battle of the Grassy Plains for the Battle of New Orleans, but I forgot most of it.)

On where you get the book: Called it

So are there more windows or doors in the Monkey Island games?

This is legitimately hilarious.

But lung cancer would be so much funnier! 😂 Guybrush could make a nice joke when looking at his grave like “I told him he should stop…”

Secret: Mêlée, Hook, and Monkey

I can't believe I'll be living in a world with a Ron Gilbert approved continuation of MI2.... NEXT MONDAY! 🤯 I'm going in with measured expectations (and I've stopped reading or watching anything related to the game) but! my world will literally be different after its release: A mystery I've sat with since I was 12 will finally have (if not an outright conclusion) then certainly more pieces to the puzzle to spend the next 20 years mulling over and debating on forums.

Secret through Tales are tied at zero, with ReMI coming in a distant second with one.

I compiled the chicken sound effects (that I could be bothered to check):

If you squint and turn your head they look like ghost bunnies.

Nice; I'm still watching it gradually. But the picky Grackle all of you love to hate is a TAD disappointed that he highlighted the thievery trial last. We miss out on the sappy romance scene between Guybrush and Elaine - which is sort of the main indication Secret gives us that Elaine's even attracted to Guybrush. The future games' use of pet names (e.g. Plunder bunny) are callbacks to that scene, and... your Honor... I daresay they cement the canonical story variant much in the same way that Escape indicates Guybrush sank his ship, or Return suggests Guybrush spared Bob. In conclusion, the Grackle-recommended order of the Three Trials is treasure huntery, then thievery, then swordfighting, both so as to give Guybrush and Elaine this scene while also foreshadowing the quests in Revenge (treasure hunting Big Whoop), Curse (thieving the Lost Ring of Blood Island from other thieves while furthering relationship with Elaine), and Escape (insult fighting dissected and explored). This also encourages the variant of Guybrush buying a sword (at the same time he buys the shovel), then surrendering it to Fester during the thievery trial because he hasn't learned to fight with it yet, and then getting a free identical replacement underwater, which he uses to actually learn swordfighting and complete said trial... which all plays into the MI1 themes of red herrings, substitutions, and positive nihilism.

The first half hour of KotCS was superb. It went downhill once they left for South America.