In Mutiny on Monkey Island the object of the quest is not a secret but an elusive treasure that does not exist and which, however, according to a ‘fake’ map, is found in correspondence with a crack that leads to another world, «the name of which changes from religion to religion, from faith to faith. As he decleared, he had HIS secret in mind at the time of the first game already and then this secret partially emerged in the end of the second game, where it was linked to Big Whoop rather than to Monkey Island.īut I think we should agree that in The Secret of Monkey Island Ron Gilbert’s idea of the secret remains in the background and is not explicit (the grog machine, the t-shirts, etc.), while THE secret explicitly referred to in the game (by the characters and by the title) can’t be anything else that the hell existing under the giant Monkey Head on Monkey Island or, more generically, it can’t be anything else that Monkey Island being a mysterious island, apparently impossible to reach except with a voodoo potion, inhabited only by ghosts and by a tribe of cannibals who hold the key to its mystery. I believe that Ron Gilbert has now revealed openly HIS secret of Monkey Island. I always got asked, “what’s the secret of Monkey Island?” and this is it. This really is the secret, this is the thing people have spent thirty years wanting to know.
And this is what it is.īecause I’ve seen some stuff on twitter where people talk about ‘oh we just made this up at the last minute’ and whatnot, but it’s not. So it’s not like those things are just put in as jokes, they were a continuation of the fact that this is actually the secret of Monkey Island and Guybrush is just in an amusement park.Īnd so when Dave and I decided ‘let’s just tell people what the secret is,’ we debated about it a little bit at the beginning, maybe we don’t tell them what the secret is, but we felt early on, we need to actually tell people what the secret is. That whole concept was kind of abandoned early on in development, as the original game really started to take fruition, but you can still see that, the Grog machine in Stan’s, those little hints here and there. And so when I thought about, ‘you know what, I really want us to actually tell people what the secret is,’ this really is it. It was that Guybrush was just in a giant amusement park.Īnd that’s where it got its title.
The thing that I’m not sure people really understand is this is actually the secret of Monkey Island, as I conceived the secret in 1988 when I first started working on this game and it got the title, “The Secret of Monkey Island”, this was the actual secret of the game. In the new interview with Ron Gilbert (which is really good and thorough) he says this (at 42:17 in):
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