OzzieMonkey

I remeber there being a pretty huge breaking of the embargo for part 1 of Broken Age. In the documentary, Tim was trying to figure out how to deal with it and whether or not to let other journalists break it too. Messy stuff.

We're gearing up for the penultimate Monkey Island Monday, which means we're 2 weeks away from launch. I'm now more nervous than ever that a Largo review Embargo will lift, which means lots of spoilers from careless journalists I don't expect an answer, but are Mojo staff going to get an early code? This is probably the only site I trust to give an impression without revealing too much.

I so want to meet these guys one day just to say thankyou, but I can't afford an overseas trip any time soon and the last time Ron came to an event in Australia was 2013 for his storytime speech 😢

Huh...can't complain about that one. 👕 I beat #Mojole #165 and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 4/6 🖤💛🖤🖤🖤 🖤🖤💛💛💛 💚💛💚💚🖤 💚💚💚💚💚 https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/

Something about his wording makes me wonder if we'll be interacting with the crew AS LeChuck. That'd be quite something!

More compelling evidence of this being mostly post Tales in this interview. https://www.gamersglobal.de/interview/return-to-monkey-island It seems as though Elaine and Guybrush will still be married in the game, which I'm glad isn't being erased.

I have failed myself and brought shame to the Mojo community...I thought it was MI1 too.

Of course, there's always the possibility that the game's hint system is so good that we won't need external help.

Ok, for some reason I can no longer share my results, but I got it in 5. Shouldn't have kept using my old guesses.

Personally I think hints should be a seperate thread so people can ask for help without inadvertently reading story spoilers. I don't want to accidentally find out what the Secret of Monkey Island is while I'm trying to figure out what order to put the skulls

Probably for the best. I still think they're keeping most of the game a surprise, hence the focus on Melee. Called it, inventory!

So what are our guesses for Monkey Island Monday this week? For my money, I'm betting on seeing the inventory, where the only item we have is...you guessed it, the horse armor.

Wow, I'd never seen those before. I read a little bit and they're incredibly detailed!

LeChuck! Harr! This name shouting is jolly good fun 😜

After that, Glottis Kart!

Nope...

Perfect release date. Of course, I would love to have it sooner, but hey, we've still got Monkey Island Mondays until then (I hope!). I got a prepaid post office MasterCard months ago specifically to buy this when the time came. Got it as soon as it became available! That little clip of Elaine is interesting, it really is looking like she might be playable, though of course they could've just cut Guybrush out of the clip (Wally was by himself in the Gameplay trailer). It looks like she might be on top of the cliff on Monkey Island where we shot the catapult, just the framing is different. I'm really excited to playing a new Monkey Island game without having to worry about system specs too, back when Tales came out I couldn't afford a proper gaming PC and was stuck with an old laptop playing it on quality level 1 on a low resolution. Now I can enjoy Return on my 4K TV on Max settings, yeah baby!

I'm really hoping for a Curse remaster soon, or a nice remastered set of all 5 games for Switch (and PC of course). The latter might be too much to ask...but I can hope.

I'm a little nervous about the trailer tbh, excited for a release date, but worried that we'll see too much. I feel like at this point, most of us could do without another trailer and just play the game already 😜

If they say it's the last one, I fully expect the game to be out super soon. Now what's everyone's guess for what we see? I'm guessing either Voodoo Lady, Elaine, Murray, or something with the UI.

I wish I could watch it live but it'll be 4am in Australia 😅

It was a complete shot in the dark this time. 👕 I beat #Mojole #151 and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 5/6 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 🖤🖤💛🖤🖤 🖤💚🖤🖤🖤 💚💚💚💚💚 https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/

I mean, it wouldn't be totally unheard of, Psychonauts 2 came out the day before Gamescom last year. I think I'd prefer to get a date first though so I can plan my series playthrough. Is it abnormal for a game's release date to be announced a week before it drops? Is that enough time? I'd say engagement is pretty high atm with all the Monkey Island Mondays and people are just begging for it to drop, so I can't imagine much point in waiting another month if the game's done. Of course, they could still be ironing everything out, we don't really know. This is a long 4 days

This may be a long shot, but is it possible that the "World Premiere" next week is just the game dropping and the trailer we get is in fact a launch trailer to tell people "go buy it right now, it's out"? Also, will there even be a Monkey Island Monday next week? Premiere, to me at least, suggests a release, unless they simply mean "premiere of this specific trailer", which to me feels like being strung along tbh. Either way, whether it's just a straight up drop of the game or a date, I'm at least 80% sure we'll know when it's out by then.

El Pollo Diablo is in this screenshot...it's Guybrush 😜