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Oct 28, 2026
JonathanHOST
So this is the first one that we are talking about on the show from a different publisher, and it's also the latest one.
JonathanHOST
The last one we played was Monkey Island 2, which was 1991 or 2, I think.
WillHOST
what year is this again remind me
JonathanHOST
this is 95 okay gotcha so we're kind of jumping ahead a little bit I mean for crying out loud this is the first one we've played that actually has full voice acting in it
JonathanHOST
Back to it.
JonathanHOST
So it's just futile at this point.
JonathanHOST
So anyway, but still very much in the Monkey Island vein.
JonathanHOST
It's not like...
Mike LevyHOST
And it's very puzzle-y.
Mike LevyHOST
Kind of like Monkey Island.
Mike LevyHOST
In fact, a lot of the elements visually are very similar to a gothic version of Monkey Island.
Ed WilsonHOST
Oh, neat.
Mike LevyHOST
Yeah, so the art's really cool, actually, at least for the portraits.
Matthew Seiji BurnsGUEST
Loom is a really interesting adventure game that stands on its own.
Matthew Seiji BurnsGUEST
People always think about the games like Monkey Island and maybe the Sierra adventure games like King's Quest and Space Quest.
Matthew Seiji BurnsGUEST
Loom is so singular in the way that it just kind of approached the whole genre of adventure game.
Matthew Seiji BurnsGUEST
It's got a lot of atmosphere.
TomHOST
I'm not.
TomHOST
You want to officially ask for a clue? Because I'm like, I'm thinking like, but there's not, there's not like a death scene music or something because it's given us like Monkey Island era vibes.
TomHOST
Give us, give us another play.
TomHOST
I think, I think that's a
DanGUEST
That's old, man.
TomHOST
You're a little bitch.
TomHOST
Monkey Island came out about 15 years before that.
TomHOST
Did
Edward OjamboHOST
so much more okay
Edward OjamboHOST
so i think now the game we're gonna actually play is called the uh it's the uh monkey island so now i i don't have the original game of course i could go purchase it etc i'm not gonna do that so there are some demos so that's what we're gonna do we're gonna basically uh
Edward OjamboHOST
get the demos Okay, so I think that's good enough.
Edward OjamboHOST
Now,
6 MINS LATER
Edward OjamboHOST
No demos.
Edward OjamboHOST
Okay, demo.
Edward OjamboHOST
I'm just going to search for Monkey Island.
Edward OjamboHOST
Escape from Monkey Island.
JohnnyHOST
In November 2025, they released their first commercial project, a point-and-click adventure called Foolish Mortals, after four years of development.
JohnnyHOST
Sophie and David have described Foolish Mortals as Monkey Island 2 plus Broken Sword, with a merry and macabre tone.
JohnnyHOST
This is true to a degree.
JohnnyHOST
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.
JohnnyHOST
And I was wondering what the first game each of you can remember playing is.
JohnnyHOST
And were you always thinking about making games or did the partnership kind of come together more organically to saddle up and make Foolish Mortals?
David YoungerGUEST
Well, for me, appropriately enough, the first game I remember playing was The Secret of Monkey Island on my cousin's Amiga, early 90s, swapping all the discs as we went through.
David YoungerGUEST
Yeah.
ErichHOST
Let me go back.
ErichHOST
No, this isn't like Monkey Island.
ErichHOST
It's supposed to be goofy.
KevinHOST
It's deathly serious.
KevinHOST
Deathly serious.
KevinHOST
This is not Monkey Island parody stuff.
KevinHOST
This is supposed to be taken seriously.
KevinHOST
This is not a joke game.
Sunie FairbreezeGUEST
And before that, Tim Schafer was a LucasArts guy.
Sunie FairbreezeGUEST
So Grim Fandango, Monkey Island, all that great stuff.
Sunie FairbreezeGUEST
This man has a pedigree.
Sunie FairbreezeGUEST
Yeah.
Game Bird ClassicHOST
We liked a lot of the similar games.
Game Bird ClassicHOST
We started diving into our game history, and I was talking about game point-and-click adventures like Day of the Tentacle, Maniac Mansion, King's Quest, Monkey Island, that sort of stuff.
Game Bird ClassicHOST
And he asked me if I had played a game that I had never heard of.
Game Bird ClassicHOST
And he was like, oh, it's It's a pretty quick adventure, but it's really jacked up because it's really unfair.
Edward OjamboHOST
We'll talk about Linux.
Edward OjamboHOST
And then after that, we'll review a game called the Monkey Island using the Scrum VM.
Edward OjamboHOST
I believe that's a virtual machine.
Edward OjamboHOST
It's a way to run older games.
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