Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge

And the...

Ones that I always mention are like Monkey Island 2.

There's one where you're trying to get an item of clothing from a person and And basically the way that you do it is that you are setting up, they give you all the components to set up like the oldest prank in the book.

And as soon as you see it coming, it's like, oh, I know this is what's going to happen.

In November 2025, they released their first commercial project, a point-and-click adventure called Foolish Mortals, after four years of development.

Sophie and David have described Foolish Mortals as Monkey Island 2 plus Broken Sword, with a merry and macabre tone.

This is true to a degree.

but one of the reasons I'm most fascinated by Foolish Mortals is that Inklingwood has managed to create something entirely unique in their spooky but not scary Haunted Manor game set in Louisiana, 1933.

Yeah.

Yeah, I remember playing that very vividly.

And then I remember eventually getting Monkey Island 2 when I switched to a PC.

And my mum, who has no ability with computers whatsoever, somehow managed to install it because I was too young to do it.

... is awesome.

But one of the things that I enjoy the most about it is Ron Gilbert has now had the pleasure of being a person who has to ship a sequel to Monkey Island 2, um-

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... and deal with the fans of Monkey Island opposed to Monkey Island 2.

I'm, I, I was g- like I think that game is awesome, but I also, uh, was very entertained by the fact that even E- even that was not immune to the same old business.

Uh, no, um- Tales of Monkey Island was an interesting game to work on because it, you know, it was made at Telltale, and it was made 2010, 16 years ago today.

Uh, I, I honestly can't speak to all of it because so much of the, like, nuts and bolts work was done by Mark and Mike when they were, like, writing the first couple episodes and figuring out a lot of, a lot of this.

But we did have a good number of early conversations about just, like, what is the tone of this game? What does a Monkey Island game need to have? What, where are the characters at? What's the state of everything? And because you're making a thing in real life with actual time and money constraints and, uh, your own, um, hopes and fears brought to bear, there is a kind of a combination of things.

stops and says, well, clearly that didn't happen, but...

I mean, that's pretty much Monkey Island 2 as well.

Yeah, there is one bit where Chelsea

says, well, hold on, that can't have happened because you'd have died if that happened.

Oh, you've got so many.

And it's like, dude, how do you do this? And it's like this, uh, moment in the Monkey Island 2 where you find the dog that is your size and you say, like...

You hover on it and it says, "Pick up the dog." And the guy picks up the dog and puts it inside a coat and goes away.

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be crazy.

In December the 1st, LucasArts released Monkey Island 2.

How technically...

No.

Um, but I think a lot of people talk about point and clicks.

I know DM is a big point and click fan, Monkey Island, Monkey Island 2.

He keeps an eye out and backs a lot of point and clicks on Kickstarter as well, and plays.

Um, but with a lot of people I know who play the point and clicks, Beneath a Steel Sky doesn't get mentioned that much, which I always find a bit of a shame.