Niemandswasser

Said the farmer to the cologne salesman

Wait, where are you going?!

Just curious--how so?

I believe that was the Monkey Island Madness collection, which was the first appearance of the MI1 VGA CD version.

Oh, and Slappy Cromwell also, when he's being used as a prop onstage.

And poor old Mort, the gravedigger

I agree, it would be absolutely bonkers to think that happened, and if you could point out a person who so much as implied that it *did*, I'd like to tell them to their face! In all seriousness, though, that McCaig quote you provided about visual blending and Impressionist technique is pretty much direct confirmation that his work on the closeups was inspired in some part by oil painting. I'm more convinced now than I was when I brought it up.

Apologies for being obtuse, but I don't see how the quote you've shared relates to my impression (heh) that the look is oil-painting inspired. All it says to me is that it's really impressive what he pulled off with pretty rudimentary equipment.

For a relatively small community like Melee Town there's actually not really anything that screams "not a church" to me. The front's all stained glass, but the sides don't need it, especially if what we're looking at is actually the part of the building given to the rectory, where the priest lives.

Neither of these has ever struck me as aiming for photorealism. The first is an attempt to depict a young man within the limitations of a 16-color palette; the second seems like it's meant to mimic an oil painting. That said, they both seem to have the same goal in mind: to give you as clear a picture as possible of what he looks like, given the abilities and limits of the current medium. The style in both is as "realistic" as it's allowed to be, in that Guybrush's proportions and features aren't exaggerated beyond what's necessary to make them visible. I think the crux of the argument is that if the first one had had more colors available to it, the goal would have been something more like the second one than not.

Can I just say how much I love this site and Marius specifically

Speaking as a citizen of the gingery persuasion myself, I think there *may* be a simpler explanation for red patches on the arms of a man with Wally's hair color...

I remember EMI was rated T in the US for alcohol, tobacco use and "suggestive themes," which as far as I can tell consisted entirely of Guybrush's "It's the door to our bedroom...ohhh yeahhhh" response.

I think it's that the flag is still visible over the ship even after Guybrush has taken it down to use in the recipe.

Something interesting to note that might be of no consequence whatsoever--it looks like LeChuck has ghost, zombie and demon crewmembers, if I'm reading that red on-fire guy right. In other words, henchpeople corresponding to each of his major forms. Maybe significant, maybe not at all!

Yes, but I believe those were meant to read as the "narrator" complaining about having to repeat that description each time

I completely forgot about this! So many little touches that added up in that game. I sometimes wonder if I'd have wound up as enamored of the series if I hadn't played the floppy version first. (And thank heaven that's how I first played LOOM!)

Fate of Atlantis subs in "blah blah" for Sophia's dialogue with Trottier while you sneak around during the seance even in the voiced version as I recall. So there's some precedent. Edit: Who needs conjunctions

Is that Bob hanging from the spar??

LeChuck is pretty much a glorified henchman in EMI--does he count?

Twist: she was the head cannibal the whole time!

The HT Marley thing has always felt like a pretty easy thing to undo if they wanted. "But you told us you were Grandpa Marley!" "I'm a crazy old man with no pants, I tell people all sorts of things! The real question is why you listened to me in the first place."

As I recall there's added ambient noise--crickets, birds, waves lapping, etc--in the spots without music. Which are fine in their own right, but I've always felt the effect of suddenly emerging into total silence was more interesting.

I've always thought the moments of sudden silence were the biggest loss between the floppy and CD versions. They added a subtle menace to the island that I think was a large part of why the game made such an immediate impression on me as a kid. It felt fun, no doubt, but also dangerous.

One of my very first thoughts after the announcement was that so far a Gilbert-helmed MI has meant the Men of Low Moral Fiber showing up somewhere, so it would only be appropriate for them to be in ReMI!