This is the big news of this beginning of April, Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman, the creators of the games “Monkey Island” announced the return of the cult series of adventure games in a small trailer. Enough to amaze the most veteran video game fans.
The pirates are back! The big news of the moment is the announcement of the return of the essential video game series “Monkey Island”. Star of the 90s, this series of point’n click games created by Ron Gilbert and developed by Lucasfilm Games has marked the minds of many young thirtysomethings, offering a humorous adventure alongside Guybrush Treepwood, a pirate seeking his destiny in the Caribbean in the 17th century. A series acclaimed at the time, which quickly became cult and whose last part, created without Ron Gilbert, appeared to us in 2009 with Tales of Monkey Island. Since then, there has been no noise, which explains the general amazement when the revered Gilbert’s Twitter account split with the announcement of Return to Monkey Island. Scheduled for this year, this game developed once again by Lucasfilm Games and Devolver Digital is presented as the direct sequel to Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge. And this at the expense of later episodes of the sage, such as Curse of the Monkey Island, Escape from Monkey Island and Tales of the Monkey Island.
This quirky trailer is not stingy with information. We find some well-known names in the announcements of the casting of this next release. Beyond Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman at the controls, the game’s soundtrack will once again be composed by Michael Land, accompanied by Peter McConnel and Clint Bajakian. The other good news for our English-speaking friends is that Dominic Armato is making a comeback as the voice of Guybrush Treepwood. The game even has its own website, for the moment quite limited in its content. As for the release date of Return to Monkey Island, no other information than the mention of the year 2022.