[stuckinhell]

I just played thimbleweed park, and yikes what a horrible ending.

I'm very worried about Monkey Island now. Some authors NEED editors. I think Ron Gilbert needs the original team to help him on what works and what doesn't.

Even the original Chrono Trigger was going to be super depressing, if the original writer had his way on everything. I would have hated his version of it.

[WorldMaker]

This is partly why I think Dave Grossman's deep involvement is so important to Return to Monkey Island. Ron seems best with a larger writers room and Dave by all accounts is one of the best influences he can have that is also a Known Quantity from the rest of the franchise.

[riffraff]

Thimbleweed Park was imvho a "meh" game. I hope the new monkey island can improve on that.

OTOH I am now playing "The Captain" which is a modern take on point&click with beautiful pixel art and a few new things, and I feel it filled my need for a good monkey island already.

[inDigiNeous]

Yeah for me it was pretty meh also, main problem being too many puzzles that required items from all around the map to be used in another location that might have been on the other corner of the map where you got the item from.

Also just too much plot, so many characters and their background stories, how can you care about all of them..

Still very excited about the new Monkey Island, hopefully they don't over trick all the things in it ..

[legitster]

This worries me a bit too.

I have a lot of fondness for Monkey Island, but more often than not - giving a creative person complete creative controls is less likely to produce something good.

[pcthrowaway]

I haven't heard this (and Chrono Trigger is my favorite game). What was the original ending supposed to be? "...but the future refused to change"?

[stuckinhell]

http://www.chronocompendium.com/Term/Supporting_Material_Tra...

https://www.pressthebuttons.com/2014/10/lost-chrono-trigger-...