Return To Monkey Island Announced With Series Creator Ron Gilbert Involved

Monkey Island’s lengthy hiatus is lastly coming to an finish, and its creator is returning together with the sequence.

In collaboration with Devolver Digital and Lucasfilm Video games, Horrible Toybox is creating Return to Monkey Island, a brand new pirating journey starring Guybrush Threepwood. Trade legend and Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion creator Ron Gilbert runs Horrible Toybox and shall be concerned on this new franchise entry.

Return to Monkey Island will act as a direct sequel to Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge, selecting up the place the 1991 point-and-click journey left off. The sequence’ floundering hero, Guybrush, shall be voiced once more by his authentic actor, Dominic Armato. 

Monkey Island has beforehand had a string of revivals through the years, with Telltale taking a crack on the sequence with Tales of Monkey Island in 2009 and Particular Version remasters of The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2 across the similar time. 

We nonetheless do not learn about Return to Monkey Island apart from what’s proven within the trailer above, however there’s a launch window set for this yr. We’ll you should definitely report extra as data is launched on this challenge within the coming weeks and months.