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'I wanted the art in Return to Monkey Island to be provocative, shocking, and not what everyone was expecting,' Gilbert writes. He didn't want a new Monkey Island game to be a 'throwback'. Notably, Gilbert discusses the art style, arguing that the original Monkeys Island were not pixel art games, but games that attempted to push forward visually as much as tools at the time allowed them. Without discussing specifics of what the story does contain, the rest of the post deals with ways in which it differs from the originals. And that is exactly what Return to Monkey Island is.' 'Had I stayed at Lucasfilm I might have started with that idea, but by the time the game was done it would have been something completely different and better. The totality of that idea was 'Guybrush chases the demon pirate LeChuck to hell and Stan is there.' That's it. 'People talk a lot about Monkey Island 3a as if it was the game I would have made after Monkey Island 2 had I stayed at Lucasfilm. They were just random thoughts about a (then very unlikely) new Monkey Island game,' says the post. 'My point is these were not commandments handed down and etched in stone on a giant tablet. It's to that post specifically that Gilbert refers in a new blog post.

He went so far as to write a post on his blog in 2013 titled, 'If I Made Another Monkey Island'. In interviews in the years since, Gilbert has hinted that he had a particular idea for the third game, and perhaps an answer to the second game's strange ending.

He departed LucasArts thereafter and wasn't involved with any of the games from The Curse Of Monkey Island onwards. To briefly recap: Gilbert was creator, co-designer and co-writer on the first two Monkey Island games.

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