The Last Tales of Monkey Island - The saga ends (an unofficial Season Two?)
Aye, buccaneers.
I want to present you a very important project, something we built with a lot of patience, passion, and after a lot of work and research.
LAST TALES OF MONKEY ISLAND is an episodic novel (with illustrations) which purpose is ending the storyline in the Monkey Island Saga, and giving at last a sequel to TALES OF MONKEY ISLAND.
It's some kind of unofficial “Tales of Monkey Island Season Two”, and the achievement of the plot needed a lot of months for studying Monkey Island characters, psychologies, storylines, humour, etc.
Then, I want to give a very, very big thank you to Dave Grossman, because I wrote him on facebook, I sent him some part of the plot, and he gave me some precious idea and advice about the story, making it more complete and interesting. Thanks, man, you're great!
This project had a respectable success among the Italian fandom (in Italy we published five episodes and ended the Part I), and now I decided to work with a translator and to present it to the international fandom. I hope you will like it, too.
So far I will give you some link and four promotional posters. First episode is translated in english yet, but we will begin wih an episodic publication (maybe weekly) only when we will have three or four complete episodes.
Website: http://www.lasttalesofmonkeyisland.altervista.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LastTalesOfMonkeyIsland
Some poster (mixed original-not original art. The final art of the project will be fully original):
And some little disclaimer: this project is no way affiliated with Telltale, LucasArts, or wants to replace an official Season Two. On the contrary, whenever and wherever the Telltale wants to take from this project part of the plot, of the situations, of the characters, of the dialog lines, I would be only glad of it.
Thank you to everybody, we will start soon!
I want to present you a very important project, something we built with a lot of patience, passion, and after a lot of work and research.
LAST TALES OF MONKEY ISLAND is an episodic novel (with illustrations) which purpose is ending the storyline in the Monkey Island Saga, and giving at last a sequel to TALES OF MONKEY ISLAND.
It's some kind of unofficial “Tales of Monkey Island Season Two”, and the achievement of the plot needed a lot of months for studying Monkey Island characters, psychologies, storylines, humour, etc.
Then, I want to give a very, very big thank you to Dave Grossman, because I wrote him on facebook, I sent him some part of the plot, and he gave me some precious idea and advice about the story, making it more complete and interesting. Thanks, man, you're great!
This project had a respectable success among the Italian fandom (in Italy we published five episodes and ended the Part I), and now I decided to work with a translator and to present it to the international fandom. I hope you will like it, too.
So far I will give you some link and four promotional posters. First episode is translated in english yet, but we will begin wih an episodic publication (maybe weekly) only when we will have three or four complete episodes.
Website: http://www.lasttalesofmonkeyisland.altervista.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LastTalesOfMonkeyIsland
Some poster (mixed original-not original art. The final art of the project will be fully original):
And some little disclaimer: this project is no way affiliated with Telltale, LucasArts, or wants to replace an official Season Two. On the contrary, whenever and wherever the Telltale wants to take from this project part of the plot, of the situations, of the characters, of the dialog lines, I would be only glad of it.
Thank you to everybody, we will start soon!
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I'm glad this project is getting an english translation!
It's about time!!!
I have only one recommendation: Please please please find someone who knows English and Italian perfectly! I saw many Italian projects translated horribly into English and that can ruin a good story.
A slight question regarding that... the LeChuck teaser picture has "How much time has he left" written. I have a very slightly tiny itsy-bitsy feeling that it's not really what you wanted to write there. I hope I'm wrong
(Sorry Spad, just kiddin')
I think you're totally right, Silverwolf. In fact, i made the correction.
As a matter of fact, I translated the posters and the site, but for the episodes I'm working with a translator that is much, much better than me with the English language
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I'm sure it will be fine
Hahahahahahaaaaaano ...don't... don't mention that .... ever.... :rolleyes:
Also, quick question, Voodoomaster, is it okay if I promote this through my site? Just a quick article, nothing too fancy. ^^ There are some Monkey Island fans that don't visit these forums so often.
Thank you very much, Silver! I will be very proud of this and I will promote your site on my facebook page.
But, only a thing, just to be clear: it's not a comic
I'm one of the illustrators in this project and thanks to the upcoming English translation I will be famous all over the world! Yaahar!
Just kiddin'
I hope you'll enjoy this novel. I think it's exactly how you expect to read a Monkey Island game
I think that every MI fan will appreciate it and will love the humour and the plot of this story (hoping in a perfect english translation)!
I'm also part of this great project: I first heard of it on Facebook and when I found out they wanted to do an English version, I put my name forward.
I've been studying English for years and I also took a Cambridge exam two years ago (that's CAE, I don't know if you've ever heard of it...) and now I study Foreign Languages at the university.
As for the translation... I know that, since I'm not a native speaker, it's going to be hard to translate everything in a perfectly fluent English, but I'll do my best, because I'm proud of being part of this wonderful project. I understand what you mean when you say that a bad translation can ruin a well written story: I can assure you that I always check my writing, not only to avoid spelling and grammar mistakes, but also to make sure I'm using the appropriate register and vocabulary. I usually look up the expressions in the dictionary if I don't know them already, and then...well, translating such a saga calls into play a lot of creativity. You'll realize that puns and rhymes sometimes cannot be translated literally, so I'll take my liberties here and there...
So all I can do now is to wish you a good reading. Follow us!
However, a very important thing:
First Episode of Part I, "The Last Inhabitant of Scabb Island", will be available on March 25th
Then, every episode will be published on the 5th, the 15th and the 25th of every month, until the end of the Part I, divided in five episodes
Meanwhile, here we go with the Part I "Chapter Screen" Art
"The first Inhabitant of Scabb Island"
On: http://www.lasttalesofmonkeyisland.com
http://www.lasttalesofmonkeyisland.com/downloade.html
P.S. I recommend reading the PDF version. The Online version is allways in a worse quality
Enjoy!
Have you already read the English version? Did you enjoy it?
Thank you for the comment.I'd like to know what you think of the English translation: have you got any advice? Is it ok?
"omage" should be spelled "homage". That was the only part that stood out for me!
Apart from that (provided we can find it, I really don't remember it, I looked for it myself time and again, but nope...) how does that look to you? I mean, is the text fluent, natural,and all that? Does it sound "English"?
It's in the "Closing Credits" at the end, in computer-style writing.
It's readable as English. There are a few odd phrases here and there, like "things have got only worse," which should be, "things have only gotten worse." People who read English are tolerant of things like this, though, because we have such a complicated language, and the story is still understandable and easy to read. It's also written from Guybrush's perspective, so we can blame any grammar problems on him.
Thank you everybody for comments and criticisms. They help us improving the project (the 'omage' thing was my fault, not Sylvy's. I'll fix it very soon).
Also coming Soon: the original Last Tales of Monkey Island Soundtrack, by the great musician&composter Riccardo Messori
So you like it. I'm really glad about that! Please let us know if anything is wrong because this will help us to improve our work. This is my first experience as a translator, and I'm not a native speaker of English, so it's a bit difficult for me to translate such a complicated thing, but I'm doing my best to make it sound natural. Thank you for your comment!
http://www.lasttalesofmonkeyisland.com/downloade.html
Thanks for all the comments guys!
Wait... you didn't comment episode 2. Well, thanks anyway for reading
The tone is mostly right , the dialogue is pretty funny (and doesn't usually sound out of place with what the characters would usually say) and the story is quite intriguing.
There are some spelling mistakes and the grammar isn't perfect (as a native French speaker, I'm sure that mine isn't either
Good job and keep'em coming!
Thanks you for the comment! You know, I'm not a native speaker, so of course some mistakes may happen. This is my first experience as a translator, so it's a challenging task, but it's really worth doing it. Anyway I checked the writing again and I already prepared a new edition which will be up soon. Thank you again, your comments help us improving our work.
Ok, so the mistakes are fixed. And a new chapter will be out soon, so enjoy it!
http://www.lasttalesofmonkeyisland.com