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  1. Thrik
    Hey, you got an apology frog!
  2. Thrik
    Wow. Thatā€™s my daughterā€™s name and I didnā€™t pick up on that at all. šŸ˜‚ I did notice the superficial resemblance between Dee and Lila, but also Flair. The name aside, Lila makes the most sense becauseā€¦
  3. Thrik
    Maybe not an obsessive fanboy but I definitely got that collector geek sort of vibe from him, which fits the character. šŸ˜€
  4. Thrik
    Initially I thought Dee was meant to be a child version of either Madisonā€™s magic wielder or Flair, similar to the whole Chuckie/LeChuck and Boybrush/Guybrush paradigm. This never came to anything so Iā€™m guessing it was just a similar design (indeed just like how the two adult characters I mentioned look similar), unless anyone knows better.
  5. Thrik
    I hereby designate this an award-winning take. Thank you. šŸ˜„
  6. Thrik
    šŸšØšŸšØšŸšØ Please wrap any Return to Monkey Island spoilers in spoiler tags. šŸšØšŸšØšŸšØ
  7. Thrik
    This is from the pre-release thread but itā€™s still compelling I think, especially given Ronā€™s cryptic post on Twitter a while back asking why Guybrush arrives on Melee Island via the arch and not via the docks ā€” something he does again in Return. * Archway? Park entrance? * Guybrush and blind Melee lookout stand in the same place as Guybrush and deaf Booty lookout relative to the entrance? * Big Whoop is Booty Town but also not? And in Return now a seaside park too? * Big Whoop ticket desk is Captain Dreadā€™s ship? * Guybrush arrives on Melee expecting weenies, which happen to be next to the Big Whoop entrance? * You also start Monkey Island 2 next to a weenie shop?????
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    I didnā€™t really consider this before, but your comment about Guybrushā€™s brother made me remember that that whole brother exchange did happen in MI2, even though in ReMI itā€™s just Guybrushā€™s friend, right? I think my head is roughly at: * During MI2 we see Guybrush as a child playing around with his brother * During ReMI we see Guybrushā€™s son playing around with his friend, reenacting one of his dadā€™s made-up stories * During ReMI we also see Guybrush making up a new story for his son I am leaning towards all of it being made up, however grounded in the fabric of places where Guybrush and his family spend time at different points in their lives. An amusement park, a seaside park, a theme park ā€” we see all three and theyā€™re quite distinctive from one another. šŸ˜„
  9. Thrik
    Or at least, the 80s!
  10. Thrik
    Yes Thunderpeel, very dream-like the way thatā€™s done. It starts out as a fairly faithful reproduction of MI2ā€™s Big Whoop, but then becomes a strange seaside park.
  11. Thrik
    I think in most cases it wouldnā€™t make much noticeable difference and did probably help keep the production of so many character sprites breezy, but yes the Melee top did stand out and perhaps warranted a special case. He spends most of his time talking to you with the shirt reversed after all.
  12. Thrik
    Yes. Ifā€¦
  13. Thrik
    Hereā€™s a thought. Is the intro shot actually justā€¦ Moving onā€¦ The covered-up ā€˜spitā€™ sign itself isnā€™t particularly subtle, but I enjoyed how the actual location of that area is roughly where it should be relative to the Big Whoop-ified version of Booty Town.
  14. Thrik
    It is possible you were expecting a bit much of the poor guy. He couldnā€™t even see Guybrush! Unless it was all a ruse to mess with people. In which case the cataracts could be a ruse too. How else would he find his way to the mansion, and see the pirate ship in MI1 for that matter? Maybe Elaineā€™s alternative route to Monkey Island is simply going west ā€” itā€™s right there ā€” but nobody thinks to head that way. In all seriousness, I think Guybrush just meant the lookout was facing his way.
  15. Thrik
    Yeah I think they should have signalled this sooner to avoid exactly what has happened, which is people taking time off work (as fate would have it not an issue for those in the UK now).
  16. Thrik
    In fairness the later part of the quote suggests that they did keep some of that in the game. I personally wouldnā€™t mind if they initially went more ā€˜all inā€™ on that and decided to dial it back. I find the relationship fairly uninteresting overall and am equally disinterested In seeing it fall apart. Iā€™d rather it simply not feature all that much in the story at all.
  17. Thrik
    One more time.
  18. Thrik
    Seems like a pretty nice update to Broken Sword 2 too. I understand that remaster is significantly less intrusive than what they did to BS1 ā€” I ended up just playing the original on ScummVM, although I was repeatedly saddened by the screwed up scene fade transitions.
  19. Thrik
    And Meathookā€™s lovely, luscious, bald cannonball for a head.
  20. Thrik
    I compiled the chicken sound effects (that I could be bothered to check):
  21. Thrik
    Yeah the sounds are weird. I had a listen... It is a cluck or weird spring sort of noise in most versions, but the Amiga specifically has more of a duck honking sound (not really a quack). Iā€™m also informed that the audio effect refers to a duck sound but is mapped to a cluck event. Itā€™s possible that akin to how the Special Edition developers pulled out and recorded all dialogue lines, they simply pulled out the sound effect names for the Amiga port and put what they expected they should sound like in. I also noticed a weird anomaly with the CD versions. On Sega it uses a proper-sounding cluck effect, but on PC the same sound is weirdly slowed down and sounds unnatural. Perhaps to enhance the ghost effect. šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø
  22. Thrik
    They are chickens:
  23. Thrik
    I do not distinguish. Chickens can function without a head anyway. Apparently.
  24. Thrik
    Itā€™s possible, but Secret is no slouch. Here we have six chickens: A further three here: And the chicken shop could conceivably contain an infinite number of chickens but I think weā€™ve established previously that sort of thing isnā€™t an acceptable data point: So a total of nine chickens. Sadly I donā€™t have time to look at the other games just now.
  25. Thrik
    Are we ready for the chicken debate?
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