
The user interface is different from previous 2D Monkey Island games. The player controls the pirate Guybrush Threepwood, who sails the seas and visits islands. This can be done by exploring locations, talking to non-player characters to acquire information, collecting items and using them at the right time. The objective is to move the story forward by solving narrative-based puzzles. Return to Monkey Island is a 2D point-and-click adventure game. The game received generally positive reviews. Dominic Armato reprised his role as the protagonist, Guybrush Threepwood. Return to Monkey Island was announced in April 2022. The Walt Disney Company acquired the rights to Monkey Island when it purchased Lucasfilm in 2012 in 2019, Gilbert negotiated to create a new Monkey Island with the designer Dave Grossman, who had worked on the first two games. Further installments were developed by LucasArts and Telltale Games without him. Gilbert worked on the first two Monkey Island games before leaving the development company, LucasArts, in 1992. It was the first Monkey Island game by the series' creator, Ron Gilbert, since Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (1991). The sixth Monkey Island game, it was released for macOS, Nintendo Switch, and Windows on September 19, 2022, for Linux on October 26, 2022, and for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on November 8, 2022. An ending with meaning.Return to Monkey Island is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Terrible Toybox and published by Devolver Digital. An ending that will give closure to some and infuriate others. That is what this ending is: the final revelation to the players of the ORIGINAL Secret of Monkey Island. An ending that we finally have an explanation for: the ending of Monkey Island 2 was actually Guybrush's children reliving one of Guybrush's adventures. An ending that is still being discussed and debated today. An ending that was discussed and debated for years.

Instead, we got an ending that WAS meaningful.

We never find out what Big Whoop is, and if we found out, it might not hold any meaning for us as players. Think about the ending of Monkey Island 2.

It's very possible that the "true" secret is something like that for Guybrush. Something that leads to an understanding. People want the Secret to be something meaningful. But what the secret is to the characters in the game isn't what ultimately matters, I think. Within the narrative of the game itself, it makes no sense and is probably just something silly made up as part of the framing story.

Maybe they changed their minds about including it. It wasn't included there for some reason. I mean that the theme park is what the Secret was intended to be in the original game.
