

The plot picks up right where Monkey Island 2 left off with Guybrush’s son Boybrush is playing around with his friend at an amusement park, recreating his father’s legendary adventures. Thankfully Disney was willing to work with him to allow him to make the game his team wanted to make and have the creative freedom they desired. The game had been in development since 2020 even being worked on during COVID-19 remotely.

Over the years he continued to work on gaming, until he finally had the opportunity to make the right connections with folks to get access back to the license and was able to work on Return to Monkey Island.Ī game that surprisingly was worked on in secret, he told no one outside of the people working on it that it even existed. Legendary point and click game creator Ron Gilbert (Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Thimbleweed Park) had always wanted to continue to work on the series he created however when Disney bought Lucas Arts he no longer had access to the IP. Return to Monkey Island is the follow up to 1991’s Monkey Island 2, that’s right 31 years later we got the follow up to the cliffhanger ending of Monkey Island 2.įor those of us old enough to remember and appreciate it.
