Shout-out to Locke Smith, who you’ll visit on several occasions and who is well aware that her very name is a pun.
In the process, it revisits familiar locations like Melee Island and of course Monkey Island, and takes us to new ones just as it also brings back familiar faces (like Murray!) and introduces a host of new characters. Our decades of wondering if Gilbert will ever reveal the real Secret of Monkey Island is mirrored in the game, with even Guybrush’s wife Elaine musing about why our hero continues to cling to it. In fact, Return obsesses over the foundational mystery far more than any of its predecessors did, and it’s played up to repeated comedic effect. Its overarching story involves – what else – the search for the Secret of Monkey Island, and that quest revolves around Guybrush’s never-ending rivalry with the zombie-pirate villain LeChuck, and their love-not-really-a-triangle with Elaine Marley. That showed me a new side of Monkey Island: its big heart, which becomes quickly evident in the playable Prelude that I won’t spoil here, and keeps getting called back to throughout. This section of the guide will include story walkthroughs for every part of the game, as well as a few smaller guides explaining how to solve individual puzzles and how to see every possible ending.And what of the plot? Return is set just after Monkey Island 2, but it’s framed in a clever way I didn’t expect.
Made up of five parts and a prologue, the narrative sees Guybrush reliving the story of the secret of Monkey Island, with plenty of fan-favorite characters showing up along the way.
Clocking in at under ten hours, Return to Monkey Island is a fairly short game when all's said and done, but that's not to say that its story isn't still incredibly enjoyable.
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