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"Putra"?! Who's "Putra"?!

Nah. We're done with the Mondays. They'll skip the next, then we'll have one last spoiler drop on Tuesday next week, and a release date in the very near future to go with it. How's that for positivity? 😆

There's no Melee Island without the map, and if there's a map, there's Hook Island to explore. At least that's how I see it ...

I do hope they keep spoiling Melee Island, because they have to spoil SOMETHING, and it'd better be from the very beginning part of the game. 😔 But, yeah ... enough with the spoilers, can we haz game nao?

ACTUALLY, it's "invent ORY". And "ORY" is the IATA airport code for the Orly Airport in Paris. So, Return to Monkey Island is obviously about inventing aircrafts in the 1600s. Sorry for all the spoilers.

Less than 24 hours until MIM strikes again! Probably on Dave's channel this time ... 😘 Not many months left. It won't be September 1st of course, because Ron is at Pax West from Sept 2nd to 5th. Not much sense in marketing an already released game.

You mean that icon that's printed over the the straw that people are grasping at ... ? 🤨

And the release platforms, I pray. You give me hope! I'll take it. Ohhhh somebody do that please. This marketing stuff is so ... ephemeral. We'll miss it when it's gone.

Spoiler policy was extremely reasonable until now. If Disney is taking marketing into their hands in the home stretch however, that could be a bit of a disaster, but I don't think they know what they have on their hands, really. I think Dave and Ron are still at the helm of this whole campaign, and they wouldn't spoil this if their lives depended on it. 🤞 I seriously hope Disney isn't pulling off any timed exclusivity shit.

Yes, in eleven days. Not sure what to expect. If there's a new trailer at gamescom, there's going to be a release date, because you can only do so many trailers. I also don't know what these gamescom openings usually entail (I've been in the physical vicinity of gamescom once in my life, and it was to meet Mark Darin, and I never ventured there ever again). Actual gameplay, just a quick ten minute sequence from the beginning part, would make sense to me. I'm sure Ron would love to finally show off the UI, verbs and inventory. It would be nice to have a little time with that, but I just don't know whether gamescom opening night is the thing to give Ron the time. Concerning the Monkey Island Mondays though, I think Monday they're finally giving us Elaine and the next Monday they're giving us nothing, or just a peek at the gamescom stuff.

They should have listened to me.

My line wasn't from Escape ... 🦊

How about the "It's impolite to stare at a woman's chest" line? 😄

Grog and the pirate life. I knew it'd get Guybrush in trouble one day! 😄

Nintendo: "Placeholder price". The End. 🔚 Yeah, it's probably the final price, but Devolver didn't yet settle on a release date. As soon as they have one, we'll know. This might not be your run off the mill "Spit it out like you'll win your spit in gold" release date decision. Devolver might be, more than for any game before, weighing their options. Not just when they'll release, but also what and where. I think that right now, day in, day out, they're discussing more release platforms, more voiceover languages, a physical release, and merchandising, that all should best case scenario come out on the same day. And that makes setting that release date incredibly difficult. I get that! I may have to go dark upon release date announcement anyway until the GOG version is confirmed and in their catalog. If it comes to that, I may have a going away present ready for you guys (Yes, @Toymafia88, you've seen part of that already).

Verb peg leg?

I finally started with Delores. Just to see where the new UI could go to. Now, this is a pretty raw build of something new, and I'm not certain it ever was a diamond in the rough. I instinctively disliked huge verb-noun text popping up right in front of the mouse pointer, possibly even blocking the view to the thing you want to interact with. I'd much rather have the old fashioned sentence building up at the bottom of the screen. Everything else worked mostly fine here. The inventory can be switched on and off here, but let's be honest, nobody is switching it off and that's a bit sad. Here's hoping they took the evolution a bit further than that (and I definitely think they did ).

One thing that came up in the GOG forums, and that I've been mulling over a bit. A user (who is looking forward to the game) said that LeChuck sounded like a "generic pirate voice from a Nickelodeon cartoon". From my point of view, the idea is reinforced by parts of his dialog being substituted with "bla bla". He is supposed to sound like a generic cartoon villain. Now I think our narrator / point of view here really is LeChuck. Who is really fed up with being and sounding like a cartoon villain and wants to make a change in his life. And it fits in with what we've seen from the game: the stress relief toy especially. He's sick and tired of being evil pirate LeChuck.

The main villain in Return to Monkey Island will NOT be LeChuck. The villain will be unveiled in the third third of the game. It's ...

Redskin fire moustache was compared to Inigo Montoya on the adventure gamers forum, so now I am going to call the character Inigo.

Maybe they should just say no more. The interesting question is: Whose POV is it? Can't really be Guybrush. So who is the narrator figure here? Maybe even LeChuck?

Every time I see a new Rex character, I think "This can not possibly be a minor character. They probably have a HUEG role to play." Also, can we start with the upside down ghost memes already? Thanks. The absence of the violinist is getting annoying! 🥺

FIVE MINUTES LATE AND STILL THE FIRST

The next MIM tweet will be posted eighteen minutes after get home. I will have logged into the mixnmojo forum and have my answer form open so that I would most definitely be the first one to see and post the new tweet, but then I'll be terror eff fiving the wrong twitter account or get distracted by other shiny pirate things and will only be able to react three minutes after one of you guys post it first.

Great. Now I want to paint that band.