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Pff! Try waiting for Breath of the Wild 2… Talk about a long time to obsess over the same stuff.

Whoa! I just listened to some clips, and that's a great suggestion! He definitely has the same vocal range and qualities as Earl Boen has! They'd at least have to have him audition! You can check out some clips here! The "Devil King" clip comes closest to LeChuck I think, with the added bonus of almost 20 years since that performance that might've given some more natural deepness to his voice.

About the voice of LeChuck. I’d get a voice actor that has the same vocal range and depth as Earl Boen, give him a sample of the previous voice, give him some room to do his own thing, and give him directions when he sways too much away from Boen. It’s been done before with great results. Boen cannot be replaced without anyone noticing, so the voice will sound different anyway. We’ll just have to accept that. I just hope it won’t be as jarring as Adam Harrington. I’m really, really curious about who they will get, and what he sounds like!!

I’d like to add to this that we can attribute a lot of LeChuck’s scaryness in SMI and MI2 to our own brains. In those games he’s just a little sprite of a couple of pixels tall without a voice, that means our brain fills in the gaps. Every scary undead wrinkle or gaping puss filled hole comes from our imagination, and the sound and delivery of his voice comes from our own fantasy. The sprites are wonderful in their quality that they can suggest all those things, but in the end we do a lot ourselves. (It might be one of the reasons why 16 year old Jake was so put off by the voices of CMI.) Another point is the direction. I’ve watched all of Twin Peaks again last year, and I noticed that some characters change completely when David Lynch is not directing. Benjamin Horne? Clichéd evil businessman when directed by someone else. With the touch of Lynch however, he changes into this naughty nostalgic man child, it makes the character so much more interesting. Same can be said about *shudder* Wyndom Earle. He’s just a cartoon villain in most episodes, with his pan flute and his dancing and crazyness, but in the last episode of season 2, for the short scenes when he’s directed by Lynch, he becomes truly scary and menacing. Check out the scene where he gets Annie out of the car… Gives me the creeps! What I’m trying to say, is that if LeChuck was meant to be scarier in SMI and MI2, it might also be because of Ron’s direction, and we might get a bit of that back in this game!

I was waiting for this! 👕 I beat #Mojole and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 3/6 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 🖤💛🖤🖤🖤 💚💚💚💚💚 https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/

That means august is not out of the question! I hope august 17th, that would be a great birthday present! 😊

Also, nice work on the poster! It looks great!

I wonder if a LucasArts designer didn’t just buy a random 1992 highway map and put that under a scanner. Might be a long search.

Exactly this. I can’t unsee that now, and I think it’s the only way left to interpret the image. Thanks, @DM81!

Good catch! (And a funny coïncidence!) It is a skull!

No! If you squint your eyes and turn your head it totally looks like Guybrush!

Haha! If that's how Guybrush is gonna look, i foresee Ron's blog getting shut down again! 🤣

It would be funny if Stan's jacket is some sort of voodoo knick-knack which turns the wearer into a fast talking obnoxious sales person! That way we'd get a totally unique new LeChuck which is annoying as hell!

16 year old you is excused, Jake. I think/hope that’s not the only stupid thing you did at that age. 😉 Anyway, to me RtMI/ReMI doesn’t have to pare with the SE’s in any way. Don’t get me started on THOSE art styles or production values. To me they can pretty much begin with a blanc slate if that’s the game they want to make. I’m curious to what they’ll do with the start of the game at Big Whoop, but even that’s optional for me. Making a sequel to a 5 part game saga tends to let you start with a lot of baggage that can drag a story down. Freeing yourself from that baggage must feel really liberating, although I’m sure some fan(atic)s (thanks for the reminder) would disagree.

So, we’re supposed to take wrong spelling into the equation now? 😉 I believe it should be an 👕 I beat #Mojole and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 4/6 💛💛🖤🖤🖤 🖤💛🖤🖤💛 💚💛💛💛🖤 💚💚💚💚💚 https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/

What? No GameCube version of Psychonauts?!? I'm angrily marching to their forums right now!!

Whoa! What a great find! I love these weird undetailed drawings of the characters! LeChuck's zombie form is obviously based on the Steve Purcell cover of MI2, except he doesn't know where to stick the needle! Weird seeing the designs for the Voodoo Lady and Carla as white. Were the sprites in the game changed too? And is the guy on the lower left of the second page supposed to be Stan??? Where's his signature coat?

I thought I remembered correctly! If found another image of it. It's not by Peter Chan, but by Gary Choo.

It makes me sad that some people are bringing up their quarrels with the art style AGAIN! It's like they were just waiting for the comments to open up again to continue spitting their bile. Some people never learn... 🙄 Most of the comments are positive though, I hope it stays that way. Otherwise, if I were Ron, I'd just close the whole comment section down until after the game is released.

I’m more of a lanky CMI guy, but I still saw your ‘way of life’ in MI2. 😉 I like your story about how he finds the coat and boots. I want to add to it that he puts them on because “that’s how mighty pirate’s are supposed to look”, without realising he just looks like a boy in grandpa’s coat.

Ah, thanks for checking that, Jake. 😊

I’ve always interpreted it like this too. It not only toys with the ‘kid in grownup clothes’ idea, but it definitely states that Guybrush is a guy who’s meddling with things that are too ‘big’ for him. Edit: I thought that Guybrush was drawn for the SE too. Didn’t know it was Chan’s work. Not really a fan of it.

I won’t click if it’s really a spoiler for the new game. Please keep using spoiler tags while further discussing this, people. Thanks in advance!

Almost had a South Park situation on my hands… 👕 I beat #Mojole and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 5/6 💛💛💛🖤🖤 💛💚💚🖤🖤 🖤💚💚🖤💚 🖤💚💚🖤💚 💚💚💚💚💚 https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/

This and exactly this! Couldn’t have put it better myself. Just focus on writing a good story. I don’t know if anyone’s interested in the works of Carl Barks and Don Rosa, but if you read the Carl Barks stories, he has such a wonderful free style of writing, which has story above all. If Donald Duck needs a second story to his house for a comic, he just has one. No need to explain it. It’s fun to read the Don Rosa comics too, because they came after the Barks comics and try to make an interwoven story of it (especially the Scrooge stories). They’re great comics in their own right, but he sometimes writes himself into corners, because he tries to make “canon” out of it. Back on topic: Gee, isn’t Monkey Island swell?