
Hip, young pirate leaders led by Captain Madison have shuffled the old guard from power, Melee Island has taken a turn for the worse, and famed businessman Stan has been imprisoned for ‘marketing-related crimes’.īanter with old friends and new faces on familiar islands now under dangerous new leadership. His true love, Elaine Marley, has turned her focus away from governing and Guybrush himself is adrift and unfulfilled, having never found the Secret of Monkey Island.

It’s been many years since Guybrush Threepwood was last locked in a battle of wits with his nemesis, the zombie pirate LeChuck.

Stop running cover for the most toxic people in the community by trying to make criticism of them into criticism of other people entirely.Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge developed in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games. Their shitbird complaints do not deserve a fair and balanced take.ĭislike the art all you want (I truly could not care), but you don’t get to harass the creator about it to the point they’re posting “I’m not going to talk about this game again because the joy of sharing has been beaten out of me”.Īnd if your reaction to someone summarizing that harassment is “well axchtually, Not All Gamers did that, some other people on Reddit just had principled objections to the art” – like, what are you doing? Why are you trying to shift the focus from the harassment to some random guy on Reddit just saying “I don’t like this”? Nobody was talking about that. If I am being “simplistic” in my summary of the shit-flinging idiot brigade who harassed him into shutting his blog down for a while I want to be very clear that I could not possibly give less of a fuck. My response, which you quoted, is in the context of somebody asking what went on with Ron Gilbert getting harassed.
