As we learned earlier this year, one of the most cult sagas in video games is making a comeback this year. Return to Monkey Island revealed itself a little more at the Nintendo Direct Mini in June.
[Mis à jour le 29 juin 2022 à 11h00] Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman are back along with their famous character Guybrush Threepwood. The Monkey Island game series gets a new episode with Return to Monkey Island, more than thirteen years after the release of its last installment. Nostalgics will have something to relive the past in this new adventure in the land of pirates, taking advantage of this new release of the point-n-click adventure game. The good news of the day is that the game developed by Devolver Digital and published by Lucasfilm Games was revealed in a little more detail at the Nintendo Direct Mini at the end of June, showing us some highly anticipated gameplay images, in addition of an upcoming release period. We summarize everything for you.
The first gameplay images of Return to 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.
L’histoire de Return to Monkey Island
Of course, for this narrative adventure game, Devolver Digital offered us a synopsis: “It has been many years since Guybrush Threepwood and his lifelong enemy the zombie pirate LeChuck have clashed in arms and in wits. one and only love, Elaine Marley, has turned away from her political responsibilities, and Guybrush himself seems adrift, dissatisfied, having never been able to solve Monkey Island’s true secret. Madison toppled the old guard from their positions of power, Melee Island turned for the worse, and famed businessman Stan was jailed for ‘crimes related to marketing.'”
What is the release date for Return to Monkey Island?
In addition to the people working on the development of this future masterpiece (we hope), it is also important to know its release date. Well know that the Nintendo Direct Mini in June brought us answers in this area. The game will be released at the end of 2022 on consoles and PC, with priority for controller players. The Nintendo Switch has of course been announced as one of the game’s platforms, with a priority release on keyboard / mouse players, while the game will also be available on Steam. Mentions of Xbox and Playstation consoles have yet to be heard.