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Monkey Island Heardle #307 🔉🟥🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ #MonkeyIslandHeardle It's genuinely embarrassing that I didn't get it in one.

Turns out that there are tools that can dig into the packed files of Unreal Engine games, and Sea Of Thieves is made in Unreal. So I've been digging around a bit! (Don't worry, I won't spoil anything unreleased) There's quite a lot of voice lines in there that weren't used in Episode 1, that refer to things that don't happen in Episode 1. So apparently they just added all the voicelines in the latest patch? Seems exciting. But the main reason I wanted to dig into the files was to find the menu music, and I think I've found it, even though the packed files are just named with random numbers. I also found some other good renditions of the main theme. I've uploaded them here for anybody interested (that link expires in a week I think, sorry, I couldn't think of another upload service). If you want to check out the files yourself, I used a program called FModel. It's slightly clumsy to use, but it works well enough. Make sure you extract it somewhere instead of running it from the downloaded zip, because it will create some files next to the executable. When you open the program, it should show a popup where you can select a game, and it should list Sea Of Thieves if you have it installed. It may need an encryption key, I forget, but that's easy to find with Google, and can be added through 'Directory' -> 'AES'. Then in the 'Archives' tab, scroll all the way down until you see the file 'wem-WindowsClient.pak' (the 'WindowsClient' part is probably different if you play on another platform). Double-click that, and it should switch to the 'Folders' tab. Expand the entries there until you get to 'Experimental' and 'Mojo'. The Monkey Island stuff is in the 'Mojo' subfolder. Open that, and double-click the final entry in the tree, called 'Windows'. It should switch to the final tab and show a list of files each named a random number with the extension '.wem'. These are sound files. To play one, open the 'Packages' menu and make sure 'Auto Open Sounds' is enabled, and then double-click a random file in the list. A popup should open that plays the sound (on repeat, pause is in the topleft of the popup). Double-clicking another '.wem'-file in the main window adds that file to the audio player windows' playlist. You can also select multiple files and quickly double-click to add the selection to the player's playlist. You can also right-click the 'wem-WindowsClient.pak' file in the middle tab and select 'Extract Folder's Packages' to add all files to the Audio Player's playlist. In the playlist, you can right-click an entry to save it, or click 'Save playlist' to save all of them. Not that this plays each file before saving it, so it'll take a LOOONG time. A quicker way to get the soundfiles out, is to open the 'Packages' menu and disable 'Auto Open Sounds', and then in the 'Folders' tab right-click the 'Windows' item and select 'Extract Folder's Packages'. This creates a bunch of .wem files in the folder where you put the FModel executable, inside the 'Output' subfolder and some nested subfolders. To play .wem audiofiles, the vgmstreamer project has some plugins for music players, and those can handle .wem files. That's... a bit more text than I thought I was gonna type. Hopefully it's all clear, and if not, I'll try to make it clearer.

Yeah, this being Guybrush's memory of Melee mixed with how he wants it to be makes it easy to explain away any inconsistencies. It helps that we've got 30 years of experience in fan-theorizing away story oddities

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Monkey Island Heardle #306 🔇🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 #MonkeyIslandHeardle Sure, NOW it's this one, after I stopped guessing it...

Yeah, you can play it as often as you want.

I'm still not entirely sure if I like the way the characters look, but yeah, the sea, sky, and clouds are absolutely gorgeous.

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Monkey Island Heardle #305 🔇🟥🟥🟥🟥⬛️🟥 #MonkeyIslandHeardle Genuinely no idea, just like the last time this song came up

Yeah, I'd been playing Sea Of Thieves since I bought it at the start of the Steam Summer Sale, and I don't think I would've enjoyed this Tall Tale as much if I hadn't already been familiar with the controls. Luckily for the people new to SoT this Tall Tale doesn't require any sailing, because that took me a while to figure out (and I still crash into most Outpost docks )

Just as I was prepared to be a bit more mild towards Escape after listening to the soundtracks for Heardle, you had to remind me of this...

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Monkey Island Heardle #304 🔇🟥⬛️🟥🟥🟥🟥 #MonkeyIslandHeardle

Another small thing that irked me was that the Men Of Low Moral Fiber call themselves 'pirates' so easily, whereas in MI 1 and 2 they deny that, if I remember correctly, or at least avoid confirming it. But I realise that's probably nitpicking. This does take place after Curse, so Wally stopped being a pirate, and there's technically no reason he couldn't have immediately started his map shop on Melee. I forget if he says how long the shop has existed in Return, but I get the feeling it's been there a while by then. Presumably her name has been Corina all this time, and Guybrush just never asked until Return. No reason Elaine can't have known it earlier.

To keep the other LoMI thread spoiler free, let's keep spoilers in here. I've finished the first chapter yesterday evening. I can see the developers really like Monkey Island, it all seems made very lovingly. And it's good to hear the familiar voices again. But it does feel a bit too reverential at times. For instance, there's no good reason for the Lookout to be in this chapter, but he's here seemingly only because he's in Secret. Maybe he'll get a bigger role in future chapters, but they should've locked the area off like they did with the circus. But then maybe this chapter would've felt too small... I also feel the dialogue could've done with some stricter editing and cutting down all the talk. I hadn't even left the Scumm Bar before I got kind of tired of hearing the phrase 'Legend Of Monkey Island'. It's probably partially my own fault for wanting to talk to everybody, but hey, that's what you do in adventure games. And I agree with Remi's impressions here, a lot of the other dialogue is verbatim from Secret. A Scumm Bar without being able to ask about Loom feels empty, but they could've done more with the character than a carbon copy. The premise is interesting though, in that it's apparently Guybrush's imagined ideal of Melee Island and how other pirates see him. It calls back to the Guybrush of the first two games, and especially MI 2, where he's mainly focussed on getting fame and fortune, at the cost of everything else. It feels like Curse's Guybrush had less of that impulse though, but maybe he just needed to recover from the Carnival Of The Damned before that part of him returned. They also managed to give Murray a bigger role than just fan-service, which I appreciate. Kind of worrying that he has a body now though, and that he disappeared when the ghost pirates attacked. I wonder where he went, maybe he even joined LeChuck's crew... As far as the puzzles are concerned, they're not difficult at all, mainly because of Sea Of Thieves not having an item inventory so you can only hold one item at a time. Plus they probably wanted to keep it accessible. I only got stuck once, when in typical adventure game fashion I overlooked an interaction spot There's some good other opinions in the comments to the news post about Remi's impressions too. So, what did the rest of you think?

Seems like it, yeah. Apparently he's just the Official LeChuck Voice now?

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Monkey Island Heardle #303 🔇⬛️⬛️🟥🟥⬛️🟥 #MonkeyIslandHeardle

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Monkey Island Heardle #302 🔈🟥🟥🟥⬛️🟩⬜️ #MonkeyIslandHeardle I recognised this as something we've had in Heardle before, but for the life of me couldn't remember what it was. Another lucky guess. I should go buy a lottery ticket...

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Monkey Island Heardle #301 🔈🟥🟥🟥🟩⬜️⬜️ #MonkeyIslandHeardle Like ThunderPeel, I also recognised it but couldn't for the life of me remember what it was from, I just happend to get a lucky guess.

Monkey Island Heardle #300 🔈🟥⬛️🟥🟥🟩⬜️ #MonkeyIslandHeardle Took me a while to get there, for some reason, even though I'm casually listening through the MI soundtracks anyway and I've heard this one not too long ago.

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Isn't towering over everything the entire point of a mech?