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The more they show, the more I'm convinced that this game is so big that they can afford showing so many locations. I prefer to interpret all these spoilers as the result of something positive, rather than the result of what they had to do to increase hype and interest in the game. That clock is mysterious indeed; I hope it involves a puzzle that will let us see Melee Island by day!

I'm not surprised of her absence on Melee, because I assume that she lives in the same island where the Marley Foundation is.

Thanks, @BaronGrackle. You could talk about them using spoiler "tags" or opening a new topic. I will join the discussion when I finish reading the book. 🙂

I don't know if this confirmation has already been shared here in the forums, but for the opening night of Gamescom (Aug 23rd) they will show a new trailer of the game: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1561373149?t=4m23s I assume it will be one of those trailers that reveals the release date; in this case Flamber the 37th.

I have read only 47% of the book and I've already spotted a few more things. Some of them are simply "similar" to elements of the games and one has become a specific key object used by Guybrush.

As I said in the first post, my conclusion is that whatever they put in that data field is not reliable and can't be used to estimate anything. I think that this is especially true for Return to Monkey Island, because its production has behaved in peculiar ways, like deciding to reveal the existence of the game on April 1st, just because it was funny to do so. So, when Devolved Digital created that page and the date of September 1st was put in that data field, there is no way to know if it was just the usual vague estimation that they put there for every game or if the date was influenced by Ron targeting again some funny event, like International Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19th) or Fight Procrastination Day (September 6th, expectedly).

In preparation for Return to Monkey Island, I've already played The Secret of Monkey Island (Ultimate Talkie Edition) and "Curse". I'm not sure if I'll play also LeChuck's Revenge, not simply because I know it by heart, but also because I've decided to invest my time reading "On Stranger Tides" which, as you may well know, was a source of inspiration to Ron Gilbert for the first two games of the franchise. I'm religiously taking note of any element of the story that shows some resemblance to what happens in MI1 and MI2 and, since I'm loving it, I hope that the book will inspire in some way RtMI as well.

👕 I beat #Mojole #146 and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 5/6 🖤🖤💚🖤💛 🖤💛💚🖤💛 🖤💚💚🖤🖤 🖤💚💚💚🖤 💚💚💚💚💚 https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/ Ahah. Fun game. You have to guess the word.

Then they should definitely rename the game "Detour to Monkey Island". Practically a prequel to Kerbal Space Program. I like your theory. It feels so nice when every piece of the puzzle goes into place so seamlessly.

It's actually "Invent or... Y [why]?". It's a popular motto among game developers and artists in general that summarizes the existential doubts that arise during the creative process, especially during creative blocks or after fiascoes. The motto is often visually associated to a bindle, that symbolizes the temptation of abandoning the social profession to embrace a more frugal and secluded life.

I don't know the answer, but the name of the file of that image is "inventory": returntomonkeyisland.com/_next/static/media/inventory-v2.940bb3ff.png

First and most important: hello there! I didn't add any personal opinion in my Reddit post about the date that I've found in RtMI web page. It's just a date mentioned is some JSON code and I had no information on how that field is used by Devolver Digital, so it didn't feel right to feed any crazy theory to those nice people in the subreddit. Here is different, of course, and there is no ethical conundrum in using Mojo users as guinea pigs for a social experiment, especially considering that some of you have already taken, spontaneously and sadly, the unhealthy path that leads to deranged speculations. So, let me add some more information on those dates and my opinion, which is: that is not the release date of the game and even the month might well be incorrect. For already released games, that field consistently contains their release date, assuming that the sample of games that I've checked was random enough. For upcoming games, that field always contain a date set in the future, except for the game "Terra Nil", where the date is set to the 1st of June 2022, and "Wizard with a Gun", that has a date of 1st of August 2022. All future dates show the first day of a month. One question that would actually provide some useful information is if already released games showed at least the correct month in that field before being released. According to a quick check on Archive.org, the answer is "no". For example, "Card Shard" has been released in June and before its release the date in that field was the 1st of April. "Trek to Yomi" has been released in May and the date before its release was the 1st of March. "Cult of the Lamb" has been released just a few days ago and the date before its release was the 1st of May. Here is my take: when the page of a game is created by Devolver Digital, they mention some very vague intended period in that field. When that date passes and the game is not already out, they don't even bother to update that field, suggesting that this is not a reliable field to consider to make sound predictions. So, was this investigation good for nothing? Absolutely not! You have to consider the positive relational outcomes of unwillingly sending people (or even Mojo users) on a wild goose chase. During their naive attempts of making sense of completely garbage data, they enjoy making predictions and they interact witch each other reinforcing their social bonds... which takes me back nicely to the beginning of this post: hello there!