As school kids playing this game in the evenings and weekends, game characters who were almost aware they were game characters - who were made to say things that they realised they hadn't chosen to say? Well, this felt almost illicit.
The fact that the fourth wall was acknowledged and then shattered. The scope of it, the richness of the Caribbean setting, the ease of the comedic tone. Things happened in that game that felt unprecedented back in the early 1990s. Let me clarify: loads of games are worth talking about, but Monkey Island - the first one - is singular in how much it's worth telling people about. Conversation defeated.Īnd of course the funny thing is, if there was ever a game worth talking about it's Monkey Island. To this day whenever I'm particularly boring my wife will stop me and say, "Is this about Monkey Island?" Conversation ended. A kid who was so in love with Monkey Island, who spoke about it with such granularity and such endless passion, that it made their mum grow wary of every fresh conversation.
Availability: Out today on PC and Switch.This friend once admitted that, as a kid, whenever she had a story she wanted to tell her mum, her mum would always stop her at the start and say, with what I'm guessing was a heavy, deeply theatrical sigh, "Is this about Monkey Island?" It's not actually a story from the game itself. It's not Stan and his hand-talking, or the severed head that can lead you through mazes. My favourite Monkey Island story isn't about a puzzle or a character or a joke. He continued, "Still can't believe it! Ahhhhhhh!" Accompanying this wholesome tweet was a still from the game with Guybrush Threepwood and who I assume is the character Druckmann supplied his voice for.A deft and heartfelt journey through nostalgia. I had a quick scout online and came across a tweet from the man himself thanking the Return to Monkey Island team for "topping life goals". Well, yes, it is in fact that Neil Druckmann.
Surely not the Neil Druckmann whose Ellie and Joel can be heard cussing left, right and centre in a game that is definitely not for children. "Neil Druckmann?" my mind tried to compute, as my lips verbalised my amazement. Return to Monkey Island's Switch launch trailer. It was an amazing moment for me, and as I sat watching the credits roll with my heart feeling pleasantly full I saw a name make its way up the screen that I did not expect to see there - Neil Druckmann. Last night, I finished Return to Monkey Island.
Neil Druckmann, the man behind the gritty The Last of Us games, has a cameo in the delightful, and comparatively very colourful, Return to Monkey Island.
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