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by tarkin2 2 days ago
If you every played the first two Monkey Island games, and understand the lore behind that, then the ending is pretty good. Thimbleweed park, in many way, was a spiritual successor to Monkey Island 2 that Gilbert couldn't make for IP reasons back in the day. With at in mind, I enjoyed the ending. That said, Monkey Island 2 got a lot of criticism for its ending too...
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davidivadavid 2 days ago
Oh and if you really love that dumb, sophomoric ending, you can also get Return to Monkey Island, which is yet another game Gilbert ruined with this tired trope.

And that's why Curse of Monkey Island is and will always remain the best MI game.

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bhaak 2 days ago
> Oh and if you really love that dumb, sophomoric ending, you can also get Return to Monkey Island, which is yet another game Gilbert ruined with this tired trope.

Isn't it a bit different with Return to Monkey Island? The story is told to kids by Guybrush and Guybrush being an unreliable narrator, it's uncertain how much of the story was real or an imagination by him.

The last scene though shows that something real somewhat similar to what Guybrush told did happen.

Also it completely retcons the ending of Monkey Island 2.

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b3lvedere 2 days ago
Can't say i disliked Return to Monkey Island much. I liked the art style and the characters. The story wasn't amazing.

MI1 will always be the top for me i guess, but i still remember almost every scene after all these years, so it's not really fun to play again and again. You can play it on almost anything by now [1]

[1]: https://www.scummvm.org/downloads/

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