Comment by Razengan
10 hours ago
After how he basically gave the middle finger to fans waiting 100 years for the "real" ending to Monkey Island 2, my reaction is
meh -_-
Though Thimbleweed Park 1 was awesome in every way
I wish/hope someone else would take up the mantle of continuing the -spirit- of Monkey Island and make a new franchise with a similar rename: call it Ape Archipelago or something :)
Even though Monkey Island now has a real (i.e. canonical) ending, it sucks. I prefer the original continuation of MI3 to the 25-years-late official, canonical sequel
I pretty much saw the ending an effort to put the story to end and move on after all the years of speculation.
it's clearly in that direction (and that's fine), but I would debate the "effort" part
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> We'll surely avoid scurvy if we all eat an orange.
> My skills with a sword are highly venerated!
> Too bad they're all fabricated.
Ughh... door hinge? Guess the song's over.
It's not just the ending, but the flat humor, the lazy puzzles (like clicking multiple times on multiple objects to open the porthole) and the meagre number of interactions on each of the islands after the first one..
It's like his heart just wasn't in it anymore
It felt like a "ehh let's get this over with" at best
or a medium-effort nostalgia-pandering money grab at worst.