After the end - What's next? - SPOILERS for the season
So, having finished the whole season, what do you will think comes next?
Was a second season set up by this series?
The final cutscene kind of set something up, with (spoiler warning just in case, as it is too early for everyone to have finished the game and don't want accidental spoiling to occur)
Was a second season set up by this series?
The final cutscene kind of set something up, with (spoiler warning just in case, as it is too early for everyone to have finished the game and don't want accidental spoiling to occur)
the Ghost Pirate Morgan working for the Voodo Lady', handing her what I supposed (being 2:30 AM in the morning the brain is kind of sleepy) is the essence of LeChuck in a jar, and her laughing in a typical evil fashion
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Maybe I just don't understand the plot because I'm an idiot, but that was one of the most inconclusive endings I have seen.
I agree. It ended 'happily', in that Guybrush, Elaine, Morgan, Winslow etc are all happy, but it did leave that diary plot thread open. Maybe delibrately? With an ending so open, they are clearly hoping for a season 2 themselves.
I reckon we'll be seeing more, this story aint finished.
In terms of content, it seems like the Voodoo lady will not let the fates of Guybrush and LeChuck be untangled. If I remember, Elaine even makes some comment about how they're free from her planning. The bonus scene seems to counter this, and LeChuck will certainly be back. Guybrush will once again defeat. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
Regarding Morgan, I feel like she will play a secondary role at most if these "Tales" continue. She has sort of run her route. Her and Guybrush are friendly now, so the hunter/pirate dynamic is gone. Unlike LeChuck, she is not evil, and would make a poor villain anyway. Plus it seems unlikely that Elaine would like it very much.
In terms of production, I think Telltale did a very nice job here. Even though these runs seem much more linear than the older games, they have certainly added their own spin and should continue to do so. In my opinion, TTG should work out some type of second party licensing deal with Lucasarts where the parent company (LA) invests even more money. I do notknow how their business plan works, but obviously with an investment from LA, TTG could certainly devote more hours and development to maybe a multiple hour, epic game. A full game actually- not episodes.
Episodes are alright, but the huge nature of MI2 certainly had a different feel than these TTG games. I think most gamers here would agree.
(Disclaimer: I adore the ending of MI2, but by definition, a cliffhanger cannot be satisfying. :P )
The cliffhanger at the end is interesting, but not overwhelmingly annoying if it never gets added onto.
I actually think this was a pretty smart move. Two many plot devices would have just thinned everything out in my opinion.
I think Le Esponja Grande is a big enough macguffin anyway.
Besides, I expect LCR:SE will come out eventually. There's also that rumor of revealing the secret and an "announcement" in March. Monkey Island seems to be big business again.
But before all that is LCR:SE. And I agree, 2011 or 2012 is the likely years if the bottom of the boat doesn't turn out to be glass for adventure games.
Sam and Max fans have a reason to be excited.
Besides, 2010 could be December 2010. >_>
Sam & Max fans always have a reason to be excited, but mainly it because we're all like Max really! But the promo site has pushed my anticipatometer well beyond the red line!!
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OK, yeah, yeah.
She has always helped and guided you and then out of no where in Chapter 4 she ends up being this evil all-knowing/controlling figure. It just doesn't feel right. Oh well, we will just have to see what comes to Monkey Island in the future.
Side note: Herman Toothrot just got his status of being in every Monkey Island game dropped :P
Technically, he wasn't in the third game either. There was just a dynamonkelectric model of him there.
There is no Herman.
Only Zuul!
For what it's worth, for instance, in Monkey Island 2 you get to LeChucks evil fortress of evil voodoo torture by crawling into an outgoing shipping crate full of supplies being sent to him from the Voodoo Lady. I don't know if "the voodoo lady is evil!!" is the correct read, either. Everyone in MI has their own motivations, their own agendas, some simple and some complex, and I think the Voodoo Lady safely falls somewhere between purely benevolent or purely malevolent, or maybe not even on that particular scale at all.
I kinda figured that with LeChuck hating the Voodoo Lady so much, having her giving a bit of a menacingly predatorial laugh over his essence would just be bad news for him. Of course if she thinks the fates are to have her pop the cork and let him be beaten all over again, no worries, that just gives us another adventure right? Really, I'm just glad that Mo's coming back to the land of the living. I can't imagine her just appearing without having to awkwardly explain what had happened, but people saying the whole hunter/pirate thing couldn't be redone havn't thought about the whole jelous wife story, have they? (That newer Simpsons episode where the country singer who had the hots for Homer had to stay temporarily had a few funny moments of Marge gritting her teeth, didn't it?)
Of course Morgan turning up as a ghost might panic Guybrush at first.
And the Voodoo Lady has the remains of Le-Chuck for some reason. I would say the ending seems to be more a cliffhanger than an ending.
chapter 1. voodoo lady tells guybrush what that voodoo machine in her hut does.
SMI - Maybe voodoo lady taught LeChuck how to get to Monkey Island, so that he can find the Secret and impress Elaine. LeChuck fell for it, went there and got himself killed. THEN, the Voodoo Lady helped him come back from the Land of the Dead, thus implying that she DOES meddle with other characters destinies. Maybe she needed a special reaction, voodoo-schmoodoo thing once LeCheck came back from the Land of the Dead, he refused to bring that thing to her, and voodoo lady sent Guybrush to destroy LeChuck, because it went out of control!
...i think
Well, for that matter, it's entirely possible that this was the Voodoo Lady's endgame the entire time, she's spent the last 20 years building LeChuck up while preparing Guybrush to take him down in such a way as to reduce him to his jar-contained state. It could explain a few plot holes. For example, she needed Guybrush to learn to make an Ultimate Insult for the Cutless of Kaflu recipe, so she found one of the few people who still knew the recipe after the ban, set him up with a first mate who was her agent, and arranged for the drunken encounter with Ozzie Mandrill. The first mate waited until the Sea Monkey was in the whirlpool, konked Marley with his accordion, prepared the voodoo spell to get them both to Monkey Island, and falsified evidence on the ship in order to cover up what he and the Voodoo Lady had done. After some time on the island, he was unable to live with his betrayal and hung himself. Now Marley was out of the way on Monkey Island until Guybrush neded him and Ozzie was setting events in motion that would lead to Guybrush's discovery of the Ultimate Insult recipe. This would explain why Herman Toothrot's backstory doesn't match with H.T. Marley's in Escape, Toothrot's history was forged.
No, it'll just be 4 hours after most people are expecting it.
So, back when you were at Mojo, did you even dare to dream that one day you'll be actually working on a Monkey Island game?
I'm sure no one asked you about that before...
As for her actions throughout the series. I would imagine it is just as it was. Guybrush was basically used as a tool to stop LeChuck from taking over. If she started the mess that is LeChuck or not, I don't really think it matters. But I'm leaning towards that probably being the case.
I would guess that in the next season the voodoo lady might be the big bad for a while, until you discover she isn't evil and something/someone else is to blame. Most probably LeChuck of course.
I wouldn't expect to ever hear a overarching explanation for why LeChuck and guybrush have to keep fighting. Such a plot line would certainly be the end of the series or at least the point at which it jumps the shark.