I'm so good at it people actually send me death threats. Elain never really liked GB and thought of him as more of a little brother.I'm pretty good at keeping secrets. Also in the IRC interview, Ron Gilbert says this about her: I’ll be honest that for me the big unresolved question is the identity of Elaine. Who could blame Guybrush for having to do battle with the demons of his past in the arena of the Big Whoop amusement park? Such a traumatic event taking place whilst visiting a themepark would inevitably leave it’s mark on a young boy growing up.
We know that LeChuck is “Dad”‘s son, meaning that Guybrush’s mother must have married LeChuck’s father. In other words: his parents married within his lifetime. When you purchase the (otherwise useless) feather pen from the antique shop on Booty Island, Guybrush exclaims that it is “just like the feather pen from Mom and Dad’s wedding”. I believe so: Guybrush and LeChuck are step brothers. It’s interesting that Guybrush always chooses his Dad’s bone – is it possible that had he chosen his Mom’s bone, the doll would not have worked? Superficially, the evidence within the game backs up LeChuck’s claim: how else would Guybrush be able to use his own father’s bone to make the Voodoo doll that defeats LeChuck? Except that we only know he calls this man “Dad” – we have no proof that he is a blood relation of Guybrush. In one sense, yes they are brothers, in another way, they are not. In a notorious interview on IRC, Ron Gilbert made the following comment about Guybrush’s relationship to LeChuck: LeChuck then truly does represent his mean older brother, Chuckie, with his “evil eyes” at the end of the second game indicating some kind of temporary triumph of this inner demon over Guybrush’s sanity.Ĭould the Voodoo Lady’s guiding presence represent some kind of psychiatrist helping Guybrush search out the suppressed secrets of his past and destroy his mental cobwebs? At the very least, it provides a fascinating lens through which to view the world of Monkey Island.Ĭould it in fact be a representation of Guybrush’s mental baggage? Might he be haunted by some past trauma that took place whist visiting a themepark?
SECRETS OF MONKEY ISLAND FULL
Behold: The OTHER Secret of Monkey Island ( direct YouTube link here).Īlthough it’s generally accepted that Psychonauts was inspired by a scrapped scene from Schafer’s Full Throttle game, it’s not impossible that there could also have been some cross pollination from Ron’s games. In response to the feedback that I received from my last video – The TRUE Secret of Monkey Island – I have put together a sequel which attempts to do justice to ALL the facts.
Ever since I first read Jorrin Quest’s article, Monkey Island: The Revelation, I’ve been fascinated by piecing together a coherent explanation of what’s going on behind the scenes of Ron Gilbert’s two great masterpieces: The Secret of Monkey Island, and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge.