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  1. ThunderPeel2001
    After playing through ReMI a few times, I've begun to wonder about Guybrush and Elaine's relationship and I'd be keen to hear other thoughts. Is Elaine: A supporting, loving, equal partner? An enabler to her fantasist husband? A mothering partner to a childish husband? Sometimes they seem madly in love. At other times she seems to be tolerating, or even patronising, him. And what about her own fantasy (given the reveal): Yes, she's fighting scurvy in the Caribbean... but also spending her spare time clearing up Guybrush's messes, and having to rescue him. Is it a refreshing twist on the "man saves woman" trope (showing how capable she is) or something else? Is their relationship healthy? (Note: I'm only talking about its portrayal in ReMI.)
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    Don't you see Elaine and Guybrush on a ship together?
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    I know what you mean. I went back and forth on that second entry a LOT. I really struggling to come up with options for an ending that is designed to be uncompromising. (In the UK we'd call it a "Marmite" ending.) There doesn't seem room for lukewarm answers. Originally it read: "It was OK!". Maybe that read more upbeat. However the responses haven't been so polarising after all...
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    ...how do you feel about Return to Monkey Island?
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    👕 I beat #Mojole #199 and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 5/6 🖤🖤💛🖤🖤 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 🖤🖤🖤💛💛 💛💚💛🖤🖤 💚💚💚💚💚 https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/
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    The ESC key is the one that brings up the red "no go" symbol.
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    I've never seen anything checked off? Is there a screenshot? I've checked so many times and it's always empty to me...? Edit: Nevermind... just checked and everything but "Murder" and "Overstayed your welcome" is checked. Maybe there was a bug before!
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    Yes, I still don't really understand why putting a painting next to a document proves you're someone... but I got there in the end. I guess the thing is: It doesn't really matter where the fish come from. I mean Guybrush placed all the fish in the bucket to begin with. So it sort of makes sense, so long as Guybrush IS eating said fish... provided you're naive and not looking for foul play! I found it harder to believe that the man who got you to sign your name on the document, saw your coronated, would then believe that you had a different name. (I also struggled with Ned's fear of Stan... If he'd been afraid of Stan turning him in to save his own skin, that would have made more sense to me. Kinda.)
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    My middling Return to Monkey Island trivia game score: 87/100 MojoMeter: 💚💚💚💚💚 https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/RemiTrivia/
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    Was that even a puzzle? The only time it's been rejected was when I selected "I'm a pirate". I've never been rejected for anything else... even just submitting a blank form. I couldn't tell if it was supposed to be fiendishly difficult or just a joke? Ah yes! The way the inventory treated that particular item was confusing... It would have helped a lot if Guybrush had said, "And I still have a ton left over!" after filling the bucket in the room.
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    Yes! I think I solved this by pure accident. Really confused me.
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    Bahhhhhhh (worked great) My middling Return to Monkey Island trivia game score: 20/100 MojoMeter: 💚🖤🖤🖤🖤 https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/RemiTrivia/
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    Yeah, I was wondering about that... something about the plants, and where they grow? *shrugs*
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    Don't worry about it 👍
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    Oh dear! What a shame. BTTF3 is so often maligned, that I assumed you weren't a fan. There's still time
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    Just to add, that I would hope this, too! He's always been very forthright and honest (IMHO), so I imagine he will, once everyone has had a chance to digest ReMI.
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    I tried giving him everything, too. Even before fighting for the key (which I think should have been hidden under a blanket, because on my first playthrough I missed everything else in that room -- I digress). No luck though. He's stuck down there (until Elaine rescues him).
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    I didn't mean to imply they hadn't put a lot of effort into ReMI, it's just clear that their efforts and intentions were in a different place to what was being discussed here. For example, there's no attempt to explain Guybrush's dream (or why a random couple from years into the future should appear in it -- the same age), or to draw a line between what was foreshadowing of an amusement park (eg. Grog machine), and what was just a silly joke, (eg. lines like "What's this doing in a pirate game?", "This isn't Monkey 1", "Never pay more than $20 for a video game"). Or why Herman is Elaine's grandfather. They openly said they had a casual attitude towards canon and tying things together. If you, as a fan, you are being kept awake at night because you're trying to make it all fit together, your best bet is to acknowledge that Ron and Dave didn't put much thought into that particular aspect of ReMI, and let it go (or make your own explanation). It's not an insult to Ron or Dave to say this, it's just not where their focus was. That's literally what I said, yes.
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    Your wife has good taste... damn sight better than BTTF2!
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    I think that would be putting more thought into than Ron and Dave did... there's far too many contradictory elements for it all to make sense. For example, in every game there's a fourth-wall breaking reference to you playing a video game. So is Guybrush a real person in modern day who loves reliving his childhood fantasies as a pirate in an amusement park? Or is he playing a video game? Or is he self-aware that he's IN a video game? You simply have to ignore elements in order to make sense of it all... and if you start doing that, you may as well ignore any elements you don't like and just make your own head canon (Personally I'm still enamoured with the idea that Guybrush breaking open Big Whoop at the end of MI2 is what caused all of this. And as its powers slowly permeated reality, the weirder things got...)
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    I read that they're a bit randomised, too?
  22. ThunderPeel2001
    I love Grumpy Explorer, but I guess Dinky Explorer makes more sense. (Or you could just go with Terrible Explorer )
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    I noticed today that Chuckie and Dee are basically playing LeChuck and [De]Lilah... which is why they're the only two characters to go into Melee at the end. I guess either Guybrush is telling a story that Boybrush can play with his friends later, or there's some notion of being Boybrush again?
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    AIs are writing news now, it seems? There goes the future of Mixnmojo...
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    The hint book is excellent, to be fair. I've looked at it randomly now I've finished the game, and the hints have always been excellent. No idea why people post in forums for help when the best help is in the game already (although maybe some people are afraid they'll be penalised for using it?).
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