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This is 100% how I took it. Finally someone builds a museum to Guybrush’s many exploits, but of course he gets credit for none of them (to the point that a character from a whole different pirate franchise gets credit for one of his feats).

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My guess is that’s to obscure the joke from fully being revealed until you get there. But it could also be lore.

Same. I like seeing an old piece of dev history and I like that they sank it beneath the ocean. It’s a cool Easter egg. I can’t really imagine how it worked into the finished game, though, and don’t really need to.

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1000%

I saw the end of Twin Peaks the Return in part as Frost and Lynch doubling down on an indictment of coopers self-motivated and maybe self-satisfied and definitely hubristic belief that he has the power to save people who are beyond saving, or maybe don’t want to be saved, or maybe don’t need to be saved. It happened a bit at the end of the series 2 finale, happened again in fwwm (his advice about whether or not Laura should take the ring), and was aggressively doubled down on at the end of The Return, where after already combusting multiple times attempting this, Coop fights his way out of the black lodge (or whatever it is) only to drag a seemingly random woman to Laura Palmers house, arguably doing far more harm to the universe than good in the process. That image at the original series finale of him smashing his head into the mirror again and again was stuck in my brain as the scene cut to black at the end of season 3. Unsurprisingly some fans were absolutely livid at this: Where’s coopers heroic end? Why didn’t he save Laura for good? Lynch is trolling us, spitting in our faces! It’s more of the same! I feel like with Twin Peaks The Return, Frost and Lynch were at least in part saying, definitively, “you heard us the first two times,” knowing some people won’t like that at all but doing it anyway. Like you said, I don’t think Gilbert and Grossman were being as arms-length about it, and I feel like across the prologue, entirety of Part 5, and the epilogue, they satisfyingly answer far more than Peaks ever did (and more than I expected them to with Monkey, to be honest. But like Frost and Lynch, I think they were definitely declaring “we don’t ever want you to be 100% comfortable with this, and we never did. If you missed that the first time, now it is laid out even more clearly.” I’ve never minded that about 2, and found Return’s… return to those ideas super thrilling. As a kid it was actually probably my first exposure to an ambiguous and deliberately unsettling ending like that, and I remember not feeling ripped off or betrayed, but more “oh I guess stories can end like that? that’s cool”* and then had almost thirty years of food for thought on lots of subjects. * I first played 2 on easy and wasn’t sure I’d found the real ending, but because I didn’t like it but because it was irregular, so I replayed on hard and got the same one and said “okay that’s how it is.”

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Maybe from the front page of the subreddit one can get the impression that the ending is massively disliked, because “I didn’t like it” posts are choking out the rest of the discussion, but when there is an actual poll, even in that community, extremely positive to at least neutral-to-positive reactions win out. So, plenty of people enjoyed it even if they didn’t all think it was perfect. They just aren’t posting about it as much there. Anyway, good take and theory on the ending! I’ve always read Elaine as maybe a little older than the other characters, at least in the hypothetical “kid fantasy” reality, and what you said tracks as a fun possibility.

0. Tales, unspoken but I know it’s there at the top. Thank you Remi.

Though you’re right it does seem pretty unlikely for a substantial update like that to drop, Thimbleweed Park got two updates kind of like this! Neither of them are as intense as what you describe but they’re both pretty substantial updates for an adventure game: One of them opened the towns previously-closed arcade, and another added a bunch of extra dialog between the main characters (and introduced the hint system).

There’s always one. (Honestly, respect. I like and miss WinAmp but couldn’t do it anymore.)

The solution is hidden and baroque but you can do it!

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I love these….. and always have. Good to have to around the Mojo boards!

I did actually! Return didn’t clock as particularly easy to me - it took me well over ten hours. Return is probably easier puzzle-for-puzzle than Thimbleweed though.

I don’t know the entirety of how trivia cards work but the rules I know with high confidence are: * if you get one wrong it goes “back in the deck” to get spawned later. I don’t know if it’s randomly shuffled back in or actually moved to the back. * cards are randomly spawned - you don’t always get the card in the same place - but I believe the possible locations in each room are fixed. * trivia cards are tracked game-wide, not scoped to a particular save. this means you can’t save scum when you get one wrong but also means you can collect them across multiple playthroughs * the fastest way to spawn more trivia cards is to answer them. more specifically, past a certain point the game will stop spawning them if you’re playing with too many unanswered cards in your inventory. so your best choice seems to be to try and answer it right when you get it. if I’m wrong about any of that I hope to be corrected!

Which adventure games are hard for adults who have been playing them for 20-30 years, but still have a structure like the old ones from that time? Asking because I used to think Monkey Island 2 was the hardest game I’d ever played, it took me weeks to figure out, but I was 11. Now when an adult who is a seasoned adventure gamer plays that game for the first time (like if they’d just never got around to it decades ago), they tend to say “surprisingly short.”

Moved thread to spoiler forum.

Murray's theme from Tales does briefly play when he's first introduced in the chest! (Hopefully the below has the timecode embedded)

Welcome, friend, to a very weird conversation we had a few weeks back:

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Now to be a pessimist but it also can be read as “Disney and Lucasfilm own the IP, and they likely want to keep deriving value from it.”

The music in this game is so good. This is a great rip and arrangement. LeShip has tiny musical homages to as many LeChuck, ghost, and ghost pirate moments that it can possibly squeeze in. I love it.

Welcome! This was a great post thank you for sharing it. Also I have to ask: what phone news app did you use that recommended a Mixnmojo article?! I mean, that app clearly has excellent taste, but I don’t expect news aggregators to know this site.