Miweek2022 - Blog Posts
MIWeek 2022 Day 7
I would be honored to share with the class, gather round... i suppose??
To be honest, I’m excited to have a new monkey island game come out this year (hopefully!) The first trailer felt like a good sign and the second trailer just kept giving me the same giddy feeling. There’s a lot of talk and suspecting of what the new game is going to contain. I see a lot of people and where their attitudes lie on this new entry. It’s interesting and I think I can understand their skepticism, but I’m just excited.
Seriously, I heard the theme and guybrush’s voice and I couldn’t help but start grinning like an idiot.
side note: sad that this is the last day of Monkey Island appreciation week but, I raise my bottle of grog to next year’s week of Monkey Island! Cheers!
MI Week 2022 Day 6
Wowee, can't believe I've made it this far ^^; well, we're all here for the post. Today I wanted to share this. It's my first ever drawing of guybrush way back in 2021. During the quarantine I guess learning about games turned into loving games. The monkey island games were the first video games that I actually wanted to play for myself. I've learned a lot about the games from countless video essays and have fallen more and more in love as I kept playing.
I'm proud to know a really amazing game and see amazing things from it!! Im proud and happy I can give a little appreciation to a really cool series.
MIWeek 2022 day 5
Ummmm, this one is a bit of a head scratcher. Lechuck’s just been a really cool villain and he’s been a someone that feels right in his many different forms. But to me, he’s always been a goofy guy to contrast the goofy guy-brush. pfft I know but I think I’ve narrowed it down…
First, HIM. Dunno, I think this felt truly like he cared for Elaine. The introduction of him in the beginning, the sort of longish love confession to her is charming. Honestly and her outright refusal shows how his undying love and persistent Lechuck is to have his way. I like his spirit, it’s nice he continues to have it from game to game.
Second, HIM
Ok, tales Lechuck is because of personal reasons. BUT, pushing aside those reasons, he’s so convincing. It’s nice to see a fresh face of Lechuck, and one not rotting away as well. Look at the big dumb grin, it’s just sooo goofy. It’s a new status and I really got convinced of him being human, well that and being a cool, like able character. and then he stabs me in the heart but we don’t talk about that hehe
MIWeek day 4
Ok I’m thinking we can do this three different ways
Guybrush makes his own. Guybrush does a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle and a real-ass goddamn pirate sword on it. Definitely gold and red highlights on the flag.
I’m thinking like a memento to his time back on melee, so like I’m thinking of the “I beat the swordmaster of melee island” T-shirt.
My personal favorite…. Guybrush glued Murray to a flag and stuck him there as a flag of terror and possible lookout.
As you can tell, I am COMPLETELY serious, deathly if you will. A flag’s gotta mean something. Could his flag mean death??!?
MI Week 2022 Day 3
If we open ourselves to mixing in other piratical franchise, I am so down. Our Flag Means Death x Monkey Island??? It’s a goodie, welcome to my Tedtalk on why…
If we have Guybrush as our main man Stede Bonnet, I propose Elaine to being Blackbeard. Izzy is replaced by Lechuck. Guybrush and Elaine get their own dynamic of trying to understand each other’s worlds. Leizzy ( no no that feels so wrong) protests the idea because he’s in love with Elaine!
Side note: I haven’t completely finished OFMD but….. having this with Monkey island means the ending of Chapter 4: The Trail and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood could be played for laughs (or more like I don’t want to be punched in the feels at the end of that game)
Uhhhhhh Largo. I want largo back, seeing as this is a continuation of Lechuck’s Revenge. I would love for him to be the governor or first mate to Lechuck once more… I mean,
“Where you go, on sea or land, you can’t ever hide from Largo Lagrande!”
Guybrush could be back against the wall against some pirates on Scabb and we get approached by Largo himself. He could decked out in riches and surrounded by lackeys.
Day Two: Returning Cast
With the new game announced, that means some of our faves are coming back. Some were announced, others weren’t, so the question now remains: which favorite side character of yours would you like to see in Return to Monkey Island?
MIWeek2022 day 1
I don’t have many gripes with this new version of Guybrush, it’s a new take and I’ll take it! Love that we are still keeping his fashionable blue coat and that it feels like he’s grown up a bit from the angular-ness of his face. Reminds me of curse.
Just the hair… Ive always loved him having that “ocean wavey” hair or a little curl to it.
I can’t argue with the new look… but now I’m conflicted on beanpole guybrush or this little guy !! :]