- #The secret of monkey island special edition theme serial#
- #The secret of monkey island special edition theme series#
It's not just the same old conversation over and over again, but with a different face and vocation (with ToMI, a SLIGHTLY different face). Sure, Guybrush has his fair share of being bamboozled and talked down to, but it wasn't the only thing he did. He has his own sort of internal Guybrush. He's not beholden to the personality of whatever character he is talking to. I think the original Guybrush is very much like that.
It's been really fun to write because not every dialogue option is a question about what to do next. But I've got a character who frequently talks to people he doesn't like, thinks are beneath him, dirty, characters who he looks up to and admires, and then there's some situations where he's being told what to do and he just flat out resents it. A dumb character is always at the bottom of the food chain - the NPC talks, and he prods for more info.
In order to get decent jokes out of all the dialogues, I try to set up a sort of social inequality, but it differs from character to character. well, he's kind of stupid, but he's also very snarky. In the game I'm writing for now, the main character is. As long as you have the dumb goofy guy around, you can spend 7 panels on plot and you'll always have a punchline waiting for you at the end, without fail.
#The secret of monkey island special edition theme serial#
I used to do a webcomic which required a joke pretty much every eight panels, but it was also a long running serial with about a thousand plot threads going on at any one time. It's basically a different take on a comedic pirate adventure game, rather than actually being a followup to Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge.Ĭlick to expand.Speaking from my own personal experience, writing a dumb goofy character is one of the easiest things in the world to do. They have some of the most unique atmosphere and tone in games.įrom Curse onward, they really decided to go with "goofy dumb Guybrush and his hilarious gags." I really think Curse of Monkey Island is a great adventure game, but it's absolutely in a very different vein to the original two games. Maybe the intent was to make them super funny, I don't know, but it's not how they turned out to me, and that's not at all a criticism. They were more just consistently amusing, with frequent puns. I'm sure I chuckled here and there while playing those games (and there were a few hilarious lines), but they absolutely didn't make me laugh out loud regularly. I know everybody always talks about how Monkey 1 and 2 were, like, the first time they were ever rolling on the floor laughing while playing a video game, and stuff like that, but I personally think that's either historical revisionism or intensely rose-colored glasses.
#The secret of monkey island special edition theme series#
It really turned the series into sort of a vaudeville take on humor, which is exactly the opposite of the original games. skip 4, given the whopping one positive comment I've read about it amidst a sea of negativity. I also completely loved the first episode Tales of Monkey Island, and it WAS laugh-out-loud funny.ĮDIT: I still need to get around to 2 and 3. But it was definitely not laugh-out-loud funny. I expected so much more from the other LA games I'd played and from all the comments people made about how funny the game was. It was kind of shocking how little I laughed. But eventually I found my way there a couple years ago. Despite my long love for pirates, I somehow skipped over it as a kid (actually it's probably because my dad simply didn't randomly bring it home for me like he did Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max, Fate of Atlantis, and some King's Quest and Space Quest games). I played Secret well, well after it had been released. how he used to be, but I absolutely agree with this. Click to expand.I'm not really sure if I agree with you or not about how Guybrush has turned out vs.
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