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Monkey Island Heardle #319 🔉🟥🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ #MonkeyIslandHeardle

Oh man. If you really want to speak to me, find a Melee Island HLDM picture.

Agree. Kinda! Monkey Island Heardle #318 🔉🟥🟥🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️ #MonkeyIslandHeardle

For real fans who recognise the best game.

Monkey Island Heardle #317 🔊🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ #MonkeyIslandHeardle

Hmm, that one was annoying. I had it after a couple of seconds but I couldn’t get the name to come up in the search.

Monkey Island Heardle #315 🔉🟥🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ #MonkeyIslandHeardle

Monkey Island Heardle #314 🔊🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ #MonkeyIslandHeardle

Yea the mansion had parallax scrolling, and similarly was the only case of this in the game.

Mwahahahaha. Monkey Island Heardle #312 🔊🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ #MonkeyIslandHeardle

Ah come on. Monkey Island Heardle #311 🔉🟥🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ #MonkeyIslandHeardle

What a bastard this one was.

True pirate enthusiasts will remember one of the internet’s earliest experiences in this genre, Puzzle Pirates. Could it be the next Sea of Thieves crossover?! https://www.threads.net/@seaofthievesgame/post/CvE_UQ2IxbD

Haha! Well, it had to happen in today’s world of glitchmasters.

Guybrush really needs to stop doing the nasty with these poor chickens.

Ahh… now that’s PROPER Mêlée Island.

Someone should record that and put it on YouTube.

It is multiplayer but not massively multiplayer. You are put on server instances with a number of other people.

Well, shit. I was ready to go with your notion that Crystal Skull wasn’t so bad and then you gave me a thousand reasons solidifying my memory of its awfulness. 😅

Too soon.

Maybe it was my expectations being exceeded after the, er… not so convincing performance I watched recently in Rogue One. But I thought the whole de-aged sequence was excellent. It felt Proper Indy and although my eye kept looking for the usual uncanny valley gaps, I gave up quite quickly and just became immersed in it as if I were watching lost footage. it probably doesn’t help that the cinema was not great and it won’t hold up so well under the ruthless scrutiny of my home OLED, but I thought it was a shockingly large jump from efforts in this arena even only a couple of years ago.

I’m enjoying a couple of fresh ones at the moment. Firstly, I’m Too Young To Die, my latest purchase from the reliable Bitmap Books. I love their books as they’re always so lavish and get my nostalgia engine going. This is the first-person shooter fan’s equivalent of the adventure game book I mentioned in the article — a wonderful trip through history with lots of developer involvement. On a more philosophical note, The Courage To Be Disliked is essentially an introduction to Adlerian psychology. There’s a lot to it and I’m not really that into this sort of thing, but I have found some of its principles intriguing, such as challenging the notion that our pasts define who we are (notably the opposite view of his contemporary, Freud). It has made me think differently for the better about how I see myself and how I interact with others, so has been a worthwhile read thus far.

News post: We asked some game writers about good books they've recently read Article: What do Game Devs Read? … But screw those guys, what books do you recommend? Are you still reading On Stranger Tides?