TommyS

The problem with that is that messes up the chronology. If RTMI is a direct continuation of Monkey 2, then the events of Curse and the other games hasn't happened yet, but the story doesn't imply that. It would also imply that you're not really even playing as Guybrush in Monkey 1 and 2. Feels like there are a few paradoxes (plot holes?) around. Btw, I realize that Boybrush is actually the official name of his son. After I turned on names in subtitles.

"You must walk the path yet you have already walked the path" - Voodoo Lady Is this game basically a retelling and a sequel to the Secret of Monkey Island?

First post, finished the game yesterday and loved it but also really confused by it. I'm not sure how to take the ending, none of them actually makes sense to me. If the stories take place in a theme park, the fact that it ends in a theme park is actually not an endig. It's just a child being interrupted while playing games. Or if grown up Guybrush was just imagining it (since this one didn't end with Guybrush being a child again), that's just weird. In that case, he has a severe case of split personality disorder, and I seriously doubt that's what they were going for. I don't think the ending has a logical explaination, and it was perhaps made that way, so that every possible ending works and doesn't work at the same time. That's either genius or very lazy. The only problem I have with that is that if I pretend one ending is the true ending, there's always something else that contradicts it. If the whole series is just Guybrush telling stories to his son, then that means we haven't been playing as Guybrush, but his son all along. But that doesn't explain why it ends in a theme park, even less so twice. It means that all the stories are fake, made up by a very creative father (Guybrush), and reenacted by his son. But if so, why the need for the father to actually be Guybrush? Why not just one of Guybrush's parents? Who is the one with the vivid imagination here? The boy or the father? The more I think about wrapping my head around the ending, the more confused I get. Because while the ending to Monkey2 was a shock, there were much less variables and easier to theorize about. RTMI has a ton of variables and everything contradicts something else, and, there are several endings that ends up not really making any sense without a huge amount of suspension of disbeliefe and ignoring all the signs that points to something else. RTMI seems less a Monkey Island game, and almost more a commentary on the Monkey Island series and its aging fandom. It seems to exist on a higher level than the others.