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  1. LowLevel
    I think that if someone doesn't like too much abstraction from the usual Monkey Island script, it's perfectly OK; we don't need to like the same things. This game, for sure, takes abstraction and implicitness to a very high level. For example, those who would have liked a final confrontation with LeChuck should consider the idea that the confrontation did actually take place and that Guybrush won: The issue is that Guybrush exits from his fantasy before letting the player... play that confrontation or even explicitly observing it. Why I love this idea and I find it a refreshing change from the usual "beat LeChuck" ending, I can understand why some people would just like more of it.
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    👕 I beat #Mojole #191 and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 4/6 🖤💚💚🖤🖤 🖤💚💚💚💚 🖤💚💚💚💚 💚💚💚💚💚 https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/
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    Oh, I didn't notice there was an AI-related thread. 🙂 If you are curious, I made a bunch of pirate-themed DALL-E2 images. Putting them here with the corresponding prompts would imply a giant copy-and-paste from the TWP forums, so I'll just link to the thread: https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/a-discussion-with-an-ai/5121/116 Here's an example: Prompt: “Old pirate playing chess with a monkey outdoor, street photography.” Result: That thread contains also one of the funniest discussions I had with Guybrush (interpreted by GTP-3): https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/a-discussion-with-an-ai/5121/20
  4. LowLevel
    The interesting part to me is that the island wasn't cut because it didn't work for the game but, according to the sign in the game, because of time issues. I hope that the developers will get a chance to properly add Cogg Island to the game, sooner or later, like Terrible Toybox did with two new rooms in Thimbleweed Park. Said that, the moment I saw that modified clock on Melee Island, in the first video clips, I instantly assumed that it had to do with a puzzle. I wondered how the star and moon elements on the clock face would contribute to the puzzle: Well, maybe it's completely a coincidence, but the clock on Cogg Island also has a moon and a star element revolving around it:
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    If you have a savegame of the first minutes in Melee Island, load it and try to make sense to what Widey Bones says. After completing the game, her words become a little more meaningful and I had the impression that some phrases were written as if they were referring to fans or to what fans might say after completing the game. 🙂 They all think they deserve it. Well, they do and they don't! Lights out always comes sooner than you think. It's a fairly good story. I wonder if there will be a sequel? Also, this might or might not be related to Cogg Island: "If you listen close, you can hear the gears grinding."
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    I just noticed that the symbol on the codewheel operated by LeChuck are different from the symbols on the one operated bu Guybrush:
  7. LowLevel
    Does anybody know what this item was for? What Guybrush says sounds like a puzzle but that information is never used in the game. Green: 50% Blue: 25% Yellow: 12.5% Orange: Orange you glad you're here? 🤔
  8. LowLevel
    I realized only now that at some point the museum closes and becomes a crime scene. 😐 Unless I am missing something from your observation, I would say that the assumption that the museum poster includes the list of crimes is false, because the poster is torn:
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    👕 I beat #Mojole #190 and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 3/6 🖤🖤🖤💚💛 🖤🖤💚💚💚 💚💚💚💚💚 https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/
  10. LowLevel
    Wait, why wouldn't it feel like a third chapter to a person who played only the Gilbert games? 😕
  11. LowLevel
    The music of the Load/settings screen, which is a variation of the first song in MI1 (when Guybrush meets the lookout):
  12. LowLevel
    Really? I missed that! 🙂 It might not be a coincidence.
  13. LowLevel
    Yes, this can happen in many unmoderated discussion forums. For example, the difference between Steam reviews and discussions in the Steam forum is striking. While the reviews are quite good (over 90% positive), the forum is full of trolls, flames, and people who feed on negativity. I was deeply misled by how negative the Steam forum was, I thought those few people represented a larger percentage of gamers, while they were just noisy. [off_topic] However, I have always found these behaviors fascinating from a social point of view. After a while, one begins to recognize quite easily the characteristics common to those who derive some sort of psychological reward from negative environments: their negative opinions are often not presented as subjective viewpoints, but tend to define inherent flaws in the game; the alleged inherent flaws are used as an excuse to point out the incompetence or moral flaws of the developers; sometimes they paint themselves as victims (the developers fooled/treated me badly); sometimes they feel unsafe and start looking explicitly for alleys ("Am I the only one who thinks X is bad? "). Although this may be a sad view, I also find it extremely interesting. [/off_topic]
  14. LowLevel
    He demanded to be a pirate: "My name's Guybrush Threepwood, and I want to be a pirate!"
  15. LowLevel
    About the horse armor, you can also: show it to the museum curator; throw it into the fireplace of the Scumm Bar.
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    👕 I beat #Mojole #189 and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 2/6 💚🖤🖤🖤💚 💚💚💚💚💚 https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/
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    I do. Thimbleweed Park was the game that was able to recreate for me the same complexity and "ah-ah!" moments that I remember when Playing old Lucas games in the past. I really think that several TWP puzzles were clever, creative and, still, largely logical. The puzzles of RtMI weren't very interesting to me, but for this specific game I didn't care much about puzzles. I was focused on the story.
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    I have always considered the Voodoo Lady (who is sometimes called "the fortune teller", at least in the MI1 demo) to be a representation of an element common to Disneyland and amusement parks: fortune telling machines: By the way, one of the fortune telling machines in Disney parks is the pirate Fortune Red. null
  19. LowLevel
    Who are these people? 🤔 Is this a cameo of some developers?
  20. LowLevel
    You can just skip those cards until you reach the part of the game they refer to. It's highly unlikely that you'll find only/mainly cards referring to future scenes or chapters.
  21. LowLevel
    It's really difficult for me to separate the three Gilbertian games. It's a bit like asking me to rank each movie of the Back to the Future franchise: while some are better than others, I have always considered it a trilogy that should be consumed in chronological order and considered as a whole story, so: 1) The Secret of Monkey Island 1) Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge 1) Return to Monkey Island 2) The Curse of Monkey Island 3) Tales of Monkey Island 4) Escape from Monkey Island If I really have to rank the games of the Gilbertian trilogy, I would say: Revenge, Return, Secret.
  22. LowLevel
    One of the reasons I did not find it unexpected that Terror Island was completely devoid of people (and life in general) is that, in my opinion, the whole place is taken directly from a chapter of (spoiler about a book)...
  23. LowLevel
    I found my favorite character in the whole series: Lemonhead!
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    This is a detail that (I think) can only be seen for a few moments. Guybrush is sitting on the bench and a small boat is floating in the pond in front of him. That boat is a touching detail. To me it is another hint that he is a bit lost in his memories of past adventures or fantasies.
  25. LowLevel
    Yes, I have to agree that the identical elements are too many to suggest anything other than that the ending of MI2 is already Boybrush reenacting his father's stories... hmm... I have to think at the implications of this.
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