On April 5, Beijing time, the classic graphic adventure game "Monkey Island" series, which has been 22 years old, suddenly announced the new work "Return to Monkey Island", the release date is within the year, and the platform is PC. Judging from the trailer released, the game still uses a cartoon rendering style, and the main creators have all returned.
The Monkey Island series is a 1990 "mouse click" game by Lucas Art, owned by Star Wars director George Lucas, produced by Ron Gilbert, Dave Grossman and Tim Schafer. Although the series has released five games so far, the creators have only participated in the development of the first two games, "The Secret of Monkey Island" and "Little Hero of Monkey Island: Old Chuck's Revenge", and all three have left the company since then.
It is worth mentioning that in that year, the series was introduced by Taiwan's soft world (Zhiguan), and the translated name of "Little Hero of Monkey Island" was written by them. The series tells the adventure story of the young pirate Xiao Gai, and the atmosphere of the game is relaxed and witty, which was very popular in the year. With Lucas Art being acquired by Disney in 2012, the IP is also owned by the latter.
Judging from the trailer released this time, since Tim Schaefer is already the head of Microsoft's first-party studio Double Fine Productions, he did not participate in the production of "Return to Monkey Island", but the other two were all there, the developer is Ron Gilbert's Horror Toy Box Studio, the copyright is Lucasfilm, and the music is still composed of Michael Land, Peter McConnel and Clint Produced by Client Bajakian. Coupled with the fact that the publisher is a well-known cult independent game publisher, Devolver Digital, this new game is quite worth looking forward to.
The 1990s were the peak of adventure puzzle games, and the "Monkey Island" series was one of the leaders, and after entering the 21st century, puzzle games declined, but with the rise of crowdfunding and the birth of Steam, it seems that this type of game has ushered in a second spring. According to Gilbert's own Twitter statement, the game has been in secret for two years.
Not long ago, "Seberian Mystery: The World Before" was released, and now, the "Monkey Island" series has also returned, which is good news for old players who have played the series in the past, and for young players who have not experienced mouse click games.