0:00 - Regular Ending 5:33 - Post Credit Scene #1 5:52 - Post Credit Scene #2 6:02 - Post Credit Scene #3 6:14 - Post Credit Scene #4 6:25 - Post Credit Scene #5 6:34 - Post Credit Scene #6 6:42 - Post Credit Scene #7 6:58 - Post Credit Scene #8 7:08 - Post Credit Scene #9 7:20 - Post Credit Scene #10 7:31 - The Drowning Ending 8:35 - Return to the World I know Ending

@pooiyx

5 ай бұрын

Isn't Bonus Ending #2 same as Regular Ending #8?

Drowning ending is an incredibly sad ending to a likeable and funny character.

@ukaszmozejko9984

8 ай бұрын

Personally, I find it amusing - especially idea that Guybrush drowned despite the fact that he knew how to escape all along.

@maverick2009ish

7 ай бұрын

yeah very sad, especially when you think about it, believing that the whole game was guybrush' fantasy, so that would mean he drowned living out a fantasy :-(

The ending is perfect, because it's all contained in that shot of Guybrush after he says "I'll meet you down there" What people don't understand is that whatever the game would have shown there would have been a lie, no matter what, because Guybrush was telling his son a story. All of it was made nice for him, think about the fact that sword fights are done through insult competitions. That shot of him on the bench is him reflecting on the good times he had as an outlaw, while also seeing what he loves about the way he lives now. What gives that such incredible closure is that the entire series is about someone who desperately wants to be a pirate, and now you see that he's not only succeeded at that, but grown beyond it. You see one more shot of him thinking about the fun he had, and then he goes to rejoin his family. They could have done more, but that shot alone justifies this ending for me

@zst0rme700

Жыл бұрын

100 percent agree! My comment touches on this with the last part of the tale being sensored for his son given how Threepwood knows he re-enacts them with his friend, but I hadn't really considered it's more likely the whole story is sensored for him

@jaredwillebeek-lemair5298

Жыл бұрын

@@zst0rme700 yeah! The look Guybrush gives makes it seem like he's taking the time alone to actually reminisce. It's all very cute, which feels right

@shumayelkhan8154

Жыл бұрын

What gave me peace with the ending was hearing about the one where he has the key to monkey island but never opened it because he chose his family instead cause he realized it was a means to an end and sometimes that can lead to destruction (mop tree etc.)

@goldcd

Жыл бұрын

Felt perfect to me. I was a bit worried how the game would handle the continuity from previous games and how this could wrap up properly (as I couldn't think of anything that would satisfy - but I think they nailed it. Just really loved the "tall-tales from the past" - as that's almost how I in my middle-age, now look back upon playing the original pair.

@Enriqueguiones

11 ай бұрын

F*k Ron Gilbert and his teenage postmodern take on "themes". The ending is TERRIBLE and you know it.

On the bright side, Guybrush’s son called out on the controversial ending 😅

Bizarre, every time you get close to the Secret of Monkey Island, you become trapped in a elaborate illusion that you're merely a Joe Nobody visiting a pirate themed theme park. That is a lot of hoodoo for a thing that may or may not even exist.

Cool that there are multiple endings but I don't like that there isn't an option to skip the 10 minute long credits just to see each 1-second tag.

@dspprince

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, and I'm pretty sure 90% of all players probably skipped the credits and missed out on these clips.

@guybrush3000

Жыл бұрын

@@dspprince yep. me. i did that

@viktordoe1636

Жыл бұрын

@@guybrush3000 and me

@allp84

Жыл бұрын

@@viktordoe1636 I waited quite long and then pressed the key ifi could skip. No warning, or something. Thanks jdes for making this video

I love how the banana post credit scene is a reference to the ending of Inception. I remember Chistopher Nolan saying the ending of Inception is less about the spinning top and if Cobb is still in a dream, but more about that he's finally reunited with his children. Similar to Inception it doesn't really matter what the Secret of Monkey Island is or if Guybrush is actually in an amusement park or whatever's happening there at the end. It's about him telling a story to his kid. If and what is true about it, doesn't really matters. Also shoutout to Jared Willebeek-LeMair and Zst0rme here in the comments. I really love your interpretation how the whole Monkey Island series are very sanitized stories a dad tells his kid about his old pirate days.

@metalsonic8888

Жыл бұрын

Except that if the reality of the ending doesn't matter, why bother bringing it up at all? If it doesn't matter if Inception is a dream or not then it doesn't need the final scene with the top because it doesn't add anything. They could make it explicit that it was real, fake, or not even bring up the possibility of either at all and Cobb would still be united with his kids. All the top scene does is pose an irrelevant and unanswerable question to the viewer. If what the secret is doesn't matter, then why go through with all this wishy washy bullshit implying none of the games were real? Like obviously Guybrush isn't a historical figure; the games are clearly fiction. So why waste time and energy to deliberately remind the player of that instead of just finishing the story you were telling?

@VAN17INO6

Жыл бұрын

coz its about telling that story to the kid, he stated it

@nathantw

9 ай бұрын

The banana was really about to fall just like the in Inception with that spinning thing (it's been a long time since I've seen the movie).

@maverick2009ish

7 ай бұрын

good observation, also noticed that...something about balance? what do you make of that? it is the "secret not unveilied" answer he gives his son right?@@nathantw

These clips literally should have been shown before the credits rolled, so that all the players could at least feel that the Secret is whatever option they choose it to be at the end. Because I'm pretty sure 90% of all players probably skipped the credits and missed out on these clips and remained disappointed. Oh well, now that I discovered these endings, I'm happy to say I'm no longer disappointed in the ending.

@litjellyfish

Жыл бұрын

I pretty sure most all did not skip it. We are now so used to post credit stuff that everyone knew something comes after

@toongrowner1

Жыл бұрын

it still feels dissapointing, cause it feels like its just another part of guybrush made up story and not an actual even that happened.

@litjellyfish

Жыл бұрын

@@toongrowner1 does it matter. Do we really know what is made up or not in the original games

@tintillor

Жыл бұрын

@@litjellyfish I skipped it. I'm used to post credits scenes appearing even if I skip the credits.

@litjellyfish

Жыл бұрын

@@tintillor that is true. That would be a lot better to add is as an additional skip

After playing through this again, I've been thinking about the ending. It's either brilliant but disappointing, or just plain disappointing. I'm not certain which one it is. The game makes several puns alluding to it not necessarily being better to see a story through to it's conclusion. Like the whole "some stories are better that way" line of dialogue. Maybe that is the point. That the ending will never be as satisfying as the journey, which it just so happens, is absolutely true here. I thoroughly enjoy the adventure all the way up until the very end, where it suddenly just falls flat. Maybe this was a clever way of Ron Gilbert and the team cautioning players against needing an answer to everything. Maybe it was even a nod to the idea that just maybe...none of us want to see Monkey Island actually end. I know that I'm left wanting more after shutting off all the lights! Perhaps a statement about the fleeting nature of life and how one must live for the moments, rather than some future gain. Perhaps it's really meant to be an allegory for the way corporations get rich off of the amusement of others, much like Stan is seen doing at the end of the game. Or, yet still, it could be none of that and it was just meant to shock and confuse longtime players and newbies alike. Truth be told, I can't definitely say what the point was, but it's certainly memorable! However, I have come to a definite conclusion regarding the story itself. I no longer believe this tale actually occured within the Monkey Island universe. I believe it is a tall tale that Guybrush tells to lil' Guybrush and that these exact events never actually transpired. Which is why Elaine comments on the fact that the ending to this particular story keeps changing each time he tells it. I also prefer to believe this is a "hypothetical" adventure because it excuses the continuity errors in the timeline, such as Guybrush referencing Morgan LeFlay, Murray, Herman Toothrot, the fact that LeChuck is still alive and back to being a zombie...etc. In any event, these games are a joy to play and if this game has taught me one thing for sure, it's this: I don't want Monkey Island to end!

The true ending in my eyes is the Sea of Thieves crossover.

@maverick2009ish

7 ай бұрын

hahaha they are great tales indeed (i just finished them) but that takes place between MI3 and MI4 so not a real ending but more of a 'interquel-story', but it does take out the whole 'present time gimmicks' such as the grog machines and neon-letters (the grog machine at Stan's is even turned into a real Grog barrel in Legend of Monkey Island), so i think that means that the producers of Sea of Thieves really want this all to be real (the adventures of Guybrush) :-)

@hiddendesire3076

7 ай бұрын

@@maverick2009ish Also in Monkey Island 2 we see a modern tunnel between Grog Rogers cabin and Phatt Island’s waterfall.

Each of us has our own path: note that the final portal puzzle for LeChuck is different from the one for Guybrush

@maverick2009ish

7 ай бұрын

wow really? never noticed that, so you mean to say that that door under monkey island chooses a ending/destiny for each one going through it? nice one!

This was like The Truman Show

@JaysasterGaming

Жыл бұрын

No, you're thinking of Thimbleweed Park mate.

Ngl I was totally into this game until this ending. Felt let down. I didn't expect to learn the secret, but there was no actual final confrontation with any of the villains.

@roruidos

Жыл бұрын

What villains?

@balgus82

Жыл бұрын

@@roruidos LeChuck and the bad pirate leaders?

@av_79

Жыл бұрын

I expected it to be honest, Ron Gilbert is really really bad with endings.

@blaze4111

Жыл бұрын

here's the thing, if the story of the game actually got a conclusion, like guybrush realizing how far he went for the secret to the point of losing himself, which had such a great buildup for as well as showing the fate of lechuck and the pirate leaders before proceeding to giving the ending we got, i wouldn't mind the endings. the issue is not the ending themselves, but the lack of conclusion to the game's own story.

@balgus82

Жыл бұрын

@@blaze4111 Agreed.

It's unfortunate I would have had to sit through the entire credits to watch the ending to each one, so thanks for doing all these for us. I think the best endings were the one with Threepwood and friends and the one with him and Elaine on the ship.

Elaine says the ending gets stranger and stranger everytime Guybrush tells it. I have a feeling there is somthing yet hidden if we play it through again..

@oksana9924

Жыл бұрын

like it was in Oxenfree?

Thanks!

The ending wasn’t ideal but still was a fun game! So many memories! But Curse is still my favorite MI game!

At first I was like, what? Then I felt kinda cheated. Then I realised it was ingenious, and the best possible way to end the game (and potentially the franchise, if no further games are made). In a nutshell, the ending lets players pick whatever they wanted the ending to be, and makes that true (as shown in the post credit scenes). In one way this can feel like a cop-out, but in another it's a clever solution to the game's alleged inability to live up to the years of mystery around MI2's cliffhanger ending and the question of "the Secret." But digging deeper, it becomes clear that there's certain immutable plot points that must therefore be canon: Guybrush and Elaine are married, they go on sea adventures together, and they tell their son stories of those adventures, embellishing to some extent but still based on some level of truth. The true story of this game is the passing of the torch, inviting the younger generation's imagination to lead them in their own adventures. The whole narrative is framed as a story Guybrush is telling his son. His son, by extent, is the player, navigating the story and trying to make sense of the whimsical way Guybrush chooses to tell it - but at the end of the day, it's just a story, a story whose end is designed to inspire Boybrush to pursue his own adventures and create his own stories. I personally hope they make a further sequel, but if not, this is a fantastic swan song to the franchise.

@stevephen

Жыл бұрын

Hello fellow chum

@kevinzieglarski

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you 100%. The ending fits

@unfinishedsenten

Жыл бұрын

To me it felt like Guybrush is loosing his memory, he looks old and sick, he's confused and he doesn't know where he is. Elaine keeps talking to him like he's sick and she's a caring nurse. She felt weird all game, ever since her explanation about the ripped picture I got the feeling something wasn't right. She also never says "love you" back whenever Guybrush says it. It's like he's suffering from alzheimers or something, and his mind is coping by making him the main character in stories about the rides surrounding him in the theme park. I think she's moved on after seeing his lust for the treasure trumps his feelings for her and her projects, and he just doesn't remember or doesn't want to remember, so he's just making up stories. It's like this was visiting day at the hospital or whatever, so she took their son to see Guybrush and take him out on a trip to the theme-park with all the characters from his favorite stories. It all just felt wrong.. When she said she had a new adventure, I almost felt like she was saying "Time to go back to the hospital", and he's sitting there like "yea.. I know.. Just gimme a second..". I think the ending is really dark and didn't fit the Monkey Island franchise at all.

@Saicyl-21

Жыл бұрын

You described it exactly how I felt about the whole thing

@Enriqueguiones

11 ай бұрын

This ending was garbage and you know it.

The endings were very on point for Monkey Island. Loved this game, brought back so many great memories. Can't wait to play this series with my kids when they're old enough.

I had a different scene in 5:20. In my scene (obtaining key, not opening it) Guybrush takes the key out of his jacket after Elaine leaves and looks at it intriguied (where he here only is silent for a long time). Not 100% sure what triggers it.

@gte85

Жыл бұрын

I had the same the first time I played. It happens when you obtain the key but don't open the chest. I guess this video bases the end-of-conversation part with Boybrush based on the "opened chest" ending.

@shumayelkhan8154

Жыл бұрын

That is the best ending!!!! So he never chose to open it because of the damage it caused and just chose his family… and still had the key.

I found the Secret Of Monkey Island™️ and all I got was this stupid t-shirt

Nice thanks!!

Thanks!!

Thank you :)

Tengkyuu🎉🎉

Don't take the key and backtrack through the catacombs, and wait for the next version of this adventure to be released. Meanwhile, play Zelda. 😊

@ninab.4540

8 ай бұрын

Here's a better idea: don't buy the new game. It's a joke like Shenmue 3.

There are a couple of (unverified) reports where they say that there's an ending clip with a banana within a (cut?) tree.

perfect

It’s not about the destination but the journey…

@blaze4111

Жыл бұрын

i mean, the game itself is really fun and i enjoyed it even with the lack of conclusion to the story's message, which was a good one.

How to backtrack through the catacombs? I kept getting abrupted ending going up the stairs

@TheWolfgangKeller

8 ай бұрын

Exactly this way. :-)

I feel like they should make merch of that T-Shirt, or a bit less spoilery variant with "All I got was" instead of "all it was was". I'd probably wear it around because... Yeah, all I got was that stupid T-shirt lol

Loved the game and the ending! Perfect ending for this kind of game. To me, nothing could really live up to the hype of "The Secret of Monkey Island" so they might as well make the whole thing a kind of joke

@jdesgames

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I think so! I just did an analysis about the ending, so you can see if we agree about everything :)

Imagine playing all this games just to get to know the Secret, but then it all ends like: It was all just a dream Scenario (All you did was worth nothing)

I guess I'm one of the few people satisfied by the ending. Ron Gilbert always wanted to end the series with "the whole Monkey Island series was just an amusement park". But he saw how fans disliked that in Monkey 2, and how they invented their own headcanon that "The Secret" was some huge revelation or plot point. So, he gave fans a chance to choose their own ending. "It was an amusement park," "It was all real", or "The Secret doesn't matter" are all options, and you pick what you want to believe. When you highlight the door to return to Monkey Island, the text even says "Deny what I thought I saw and return to the world I know". He did the ending he wanted, but also gave fans the option to choose the ending they wanted. Also, the whole story is also a metaphor for the fans. You, the player (Guybrush) are obsessed with chasing The Secret, even as Elaine warns that nothing could live up to your expectations. But she continues to support you and just wants you to enjoy the adventure.

@operation1968

7 ай бұрын

Well said my man. I like that 😊

@Blaquebarbgamer

5 ай бұрын

@@operation1968I love that ❤️.

@LucasIndrusiak

5 ай бұрын

Just perfect interpretation

@karlbaker9153

3 ай бұрын

You’re not alone. The ending was fine.

I don't understand how to get #8 as opposed to Bonus #2. Is there a way to get back without getting the keys from Stan?

@albertovajro5902

Жыл бұрын

#8 happens when you do not take CHEST key You can still open catacombs by STAN’s key

@albertovajro5902

Жыл бұрын

#2 you have to go with Elaine, instead, obtaining CHEST key

@GistOfSpirit

Жыл бұрын

@@albertovajro5902 That's what I did, the moment I got the keys from Stan I went back and opened the door. I got Bonus #2, "Return to the World I know", not #8.

@albertovajro5902

Жыл бұрын

#8 is a post credit to bonus ending #2

This is the LAST time I take a long lunch!

If you skip the credits you skip the post credit secret scene! Genius game design!

I waited 32 years for this adventure to have a good ending and i got this game.

@colmecolwag

Жыл бұрын

that was kinda a theme to the story, wasn't it? That having all this expectation and build up to something and building it up for so long that you'll never be able to find something that'll meet those expectations, that it'll always fall flat of those expectations. It wasn't the most subtle about it. But also that may not be the message we want, I guess? These post credit scenes do kinda satisfy a desire to just...see them have normal pirate adventures if you want, a little. Sorta. Some of them.

@BonzyLad

Жыл бұрын

Then you didn't understand the spirit of this game

@keir0830

Жыл бұрын

Well, I really want to ask you which ending you chose? If you think the theme park or "The Notebook" phase of the adventure was the ending, then you missed it lol Leaving with Elaine provides alternative endings, to returning back through the catacombs. They reference endings to The Lord of the Rings, Inception. And the Notebook. Maybe even "Goonies" lol But none are set in stone. Alternate endings are made for fun. I picked the one where I return to the world I knew back in the catacombs. And Guybrush and Elaine are shown sailing off on their ship together with swords raised high, suggesting, more adventures to come. If you want to know which is "the real ending" then Do not eat the forbidden fruit, i.e. - do not believe the Stan Theme Park is real, and don't take the key, and don't open the chest. You'll get the triumphant ending, the more official kind. But the devs kind of missed an opportunity here. It isn't 100% choose your own adventure and choose your own ending... probably to be continued. Edit: returning to the world you knew (best without taking the key), also is a requirement for a trophy in the Playstation version. That also suggests it is the "official ending")

@Enriqueguiones

11 ай бұрын

@@colmecolwag F*k Ron Gilbert and his teenage postmodern take on "themes". The ending is TERRIBLE and you know it.

@W0lfbaneShikaisc00l

8 ай бұрын

There 32 likes: Now don't you press that like button (shakes fist)

I honestly loved the ending of this game. It was more of a meta narrative sort of thing, but I really apprdciate how by the end, Guybrush realised how the secret wasn't even worth it. Ron Gilbert's letter is, to me, the true secret of monkey island.

@BR-jw7pm

6 күн бұрын

I felt it was sort of an anticlimax after all that effort. I get the meta aspect but I feel it could’ve been done better. Like maybe the Secret was that the series is just computer games and Lechuck tries to alter the code to rewrite everything in his image or something

The game was very good but the ending was disappointing and unoriginal (it is more or less the same with MI2). Furthermore there is no final encounter with LeChuck. The post credit sequences somewhat improves it, but still they could do something more original or spectacular!

So Guybrush and Elaine are only piratería carnaval enterteiners?

@toromontana8290

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. LeChuck died a long time ago lol.

@RolandTemplar

Жыл бұрын

@@toromontana8290 so all is in Guybrush's imagination? All make sense now

@L4ftyOne

Жыл бұрын

nope

I haven't felt this let down by an ending since... ...I don't think I've ever felt this let down by a game ending.

@listrahtes

Жыл бұрын

It imo is obvious Gilbert had no idea how to end the game or write even one character correct.

Those that are unsatisfied with the endings. Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman knew you would be feeling this way no matter what and the point of all these variations in endings show exactly why.

@shumayelkhan8154

Жыл бұрын

I don’t get it… why

@fabianthoene

Жыл бұрын

All those fans with extremely high expectations can't be satisfied. That's why there are different endings. Because it doesn't matter what the writers do. People complain. I personally love the ending(s) even if it felt wrong in the first few minutes. Elaine herself says that Guybrush's narration of the end of the story gets crazier every time. I don't think it's the real end of the story. Even if it is. Return was a lot of fun, even if some of the puzzles were too easy and too linear and a lot of potential was not used (example Scurvy Island or Terror Island). Just curious where Herman is.. again :D

@shumayelkhan8154

Жыл бұрын

@@fabianthoene yeah I think they effed up and underestimated the interest, they should’ve made the game way bigger/more content.. or they have said it’s not the last one… so maybe this is just a warm up.. here is hoping!

@DragonSire

Жыл бұрын

@@fabianthoene ROFL its not the secret that is pissing people off, its the abrupt ending, that says this is all fake, so no matter your choice of what is in the chest...since its still all fake...it makes no difference. so there's no choice. choice is an illusion. Unless everything he tells his kid after opening the door is a lie (which no reason to believe this) then its all fake larping. I mean why promise your kid a story of the secret and then lie when you get to the end...It's fucking dumb.

@guybrush3000

Жыл бұрын

sounds like a cop out

So what happened to lechuck? Was he just a fictional character in his story? Was this whole story a lie? Didn't all the villains get to the chest first? The end didn't connect any of the dots!

It was a very Don Quixote ending that was slightly disappointing after getting to the end area and realizing where they were going with it. I like to imagine that this part of the story is Threepwood sensoring what was a gruesome climatic battle where he finally killed Lechuck to obtain the secret (in my choice, riches.) He knows his son re-enacts the tales, so my thought is he doesn't want him to make play of what was the worst part of the adventure to Threepwood.

@shumayelkhan8154

Жыл бұрын

Yeah.. it seems like the creator wrote this for his long time fan base who may have kids now… too family friendly. I wanted to get lechuk too!

@chriserony

Жыл бұрын

Curious to see what happens when he checks all the boxes in LeChuck's pamphlet. That version is the one I wouldn't want to tell my children. But maybe he could still talk about it with Elaine after his son walks away?

The entire tease of what REALLY is Monkey Island from Lechuck's Revenge's ending has finally concluded. What a breath-taking ending.

@liangyuaq-qoyunlu407

Жыл бұрын

it sucked

@L4ftyOne

Жыл бұрын

@@liangyuaq-qoyunlu407 no

@Enriqueguiones

11 ай бұрын

@@L4ftyOne It sucked.

@SirMoFoDans4

6 ай бұрын

@@L4ftyOneMan, that definetly sucked.

11 endings!!??? WTF!? I only see the kids running😖

@nathantw

9 ай бұрын

That's what I initially got.

@maverick2009ish

7 ай бұрын

...with the treasure chest key ;-)

still can't get over the graphics

Then again... everyone could use a new shirt #shrugs

Like if you liked Tales of monkey island or at least its ending better than Return to monkey islands endings :P RtMI was good but ToMI had much more emotion and I feel like Elaine was much more like she was in MI1+2 while in RtMI she had useless scenes pointing towards an ending we didnt get (like firstly overly supportive and then it built up to some conflict but then nothing...) RtMI's ending could still have featured a climax and battle against LeChuck before turning out the way it did... like LeChuck is about to stab Guybrush and then runs out of battery... ah whatever...

@metalkarim9

Жыл бұрын

Tales was absolute garbage, MI 1 2 3 4 , all of them are cool, maybe it's the nostalgia speaking

@listrahtes

Жыл бұрын

@@metalkarim9 Tales wasn't good I agree but it had more emotion than this lifeless sad excuse. They had no idea how to breath life into the old characters but Elaine really was the worst in Return . If this game would not be by Gilbert it would have been criticized much more.

@SirMoFoDans4

6 ай бұрын

@@metalkarim9I will never understand this Tales slander

Love the ending. It was great.

Da un video all'altro e alla fine chiedono sempre soldi😅

I loved this game. Except the ending. I felt quite robbed.

@shumayelkhan8154

Жыл бұрын

Same. Such a good game! I did like the ending I got in the sense it felt meta and the family values it espoused but in my heart and soul… total highway robbery

@i_am_the_night

Жыл бұрын

That's piracy!

I don’t get the banana ending. Is there any significane to that? Bananas… monkeys?

@rafael-michaelkarampatsis892

Жыл бұрын

Watch the film Inception and its ending then you will understand.

@chriserony

Жыл бұрын

The only thing missing from this game was a three-headed monkey or reference to it.

@Dravenfrost

Жыл бұрын

There was some dialog near the end that alluded to it not mattering if it was a banana balanced on a rock or whatever.

If you enjoy feeling betrayed, heartbroken and empty then these are the perfect endings for you.

So the ending is meta… turns out it was a fake world and a fake story, and it’s just old threepwood…. Just old threepwood using his story telling skills to entertain his child and plunder with his amazing wife! Man gone grown up 😂

@BardianAngel

Жыл бұрын

But there was some truth to it. After all, it showed him learning those storytelling skills.

@maverick2009ish

7 ай бұрын

good one! cause of the fish chum story-excerises!@@BardianAngelwhich would make the story of Return real again...and even Elaine wears the chum-pin on her shirt in the bench ending scene, so Elaine really is a chum/part of a secret society?

Uhm if had to whip out the epistemology hat i wouldnsay that the real guybrush and the real story are trapped behind the false meta narrative present in the illusions. The 4th wall, the illusions, guybrush making up a story are like a filter used to hide the real and purest narrative, a fun adventure about a goody pirate.

@maverick2009ish

7 ай бұрын

interesting theory, so you mean to say that all the MI-games are real(-live) but that guybrush tells his stories with slipping in some 'present-day gimmicks' such as the grog machines and neon lights and such?

Didn't care for the carnival ending, so I felt vindicated to have the option to say, "I'm not doing this" and leave back the way I came (after grabbing the secret, of course) and the cutscene at least preserved some small level of canon

People saying these endings are disappointing not realizing these weird endings are very normal for Monkey Island, especially the first two games.

@chriserony

Жыл бұрын

I liked the weird endings of MI 1 & 2. This feels like it's trying to be that without actually being that. At least the kids in the carnival made some sense. Elaine doesn't even try to explain the setup.

@jackalvonstone250

Жыл бұрын

No, I played those games. It was still disappointing. I know I should not have gotten my hopes up for a good ending after Thimbleweed Park. Ron Gilbert just loves being Meta, but I still am disappointed how the game ended. Loved it the whole way through though. Especially Chapter 4.

@toongrowner1

Жыл бұрын

with MI2 ending, you knew at the end that it was only part of lechucks curse. These.... these are just "nothing is real/it was all just a dream" tropes of endings, which is one of the worst ways to end a story, specially such a long ongoing series. with the post credit stuff feeling like just another part of guybrush made up story.

@blaze4111

Жыл бұрын

honestly, the endings are not the problem, they are fine, the problem is that there was no conclusion to the story of the game itself. there was a big and interesting buildup of guybrush going too far for the secret and doing horrible things for it, having conclud that and then proceeding to the endings would be fine. you don't need to reveal the secret or give an ending for the series, but at least conclude the stoey you were telling in this game.

@liangyuaq-qoyunlu407

Жыл бұрын

@@jackalvonstone250 that's odd since chapter 4 was obviously rushed.

How to conclude a decade old series the worst way possible

@L4ftyOne

Жыл бұрын

no, the best. get out, hater

@ScalyTomate

Жыл бұрын

@@L4ftyOne lol

@cobrasys

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. The game itself was fun, but those endings are the worst kind of cop out. The whole game was just a long dad joke, gimme a dad joke ending as well!

@BadM0j0

Жыл бұрын

The ending was a let down after all the events building up to it.

@VAN17INO6

Жыл бұрын

man i loved it

not satisfied with the ending. Hope its mean that another game coming though. Its look like a sad ending, did he dead after fall from the cliff ? the ending its just an afterlife? maybe the next game is about guybrush cheating death with help of the voodo lady.

@L4ftyOne

Жыл бұрын

jup, mire island is the next

@barb8409

Жыл бұрын

They've already done that in tales

Now that I have finished it I can say that: - Do not pay more than 20 bucks for a game.. 👍🏻

Disappointing ending for an awesome game. Makes me feel kinda empty.

This is the perfect ending for an amazing game and an amazing series. The secret was exactly what I wanted it to be, which was anything the writers threw at me. Actually I would have hated if the secret was that Elaine divorced Guybrush. I thought the game was leading up to that, and I heard about the ending being controversial, so I thought that might be what people were upset about. But Elaine and Guybrush talk it out like adults and in a way that made sense with the narrative, and it turns out people were just upset that the ending is perfect. Give it a few years, people will realize how great this ending is.

@keir0830

Жыл бұрын

If one simply doesn't take the key (or takes it.... less direct) and just backtrack through the catacombs, they get the real ending. If they can produce more games like this in the future, or if they plan to, then that ending is the legit ending.

@KornFlace

Жыл бұрын

Cope

@Enriqueguiones

11 ай бұрын

It's a stupid non-ending and you know it.

@keir0830

11 ай бұрын

@@Enriqueguiones It was a great game, it brought back so many good memories, and the ending was perfect in my mind... so, there is that thing called "perspective" lol

@nathantw

9 ай бұрын

Guybrush and Elaine talked it out? That's funny. I just told her the truth each time and she said "okay." I guess I need to go back and replay some of those scenes again.

Monkey Island 1, 2 and 3 are worth playing.

I never saw the post credit scenes. So thanks for showing them. But, I feel like they cheapen the ending. If you are going to make a decision that will polarize the audience, then commit to it. Allowing the fans to choose their own ending so that the chest was filled with riches all along just takes away any impact the ending could have.

I think you all are looking for an ending that you would never be satisfied with. Elaine and Guybrush are just Carnival Entertainers: why do you think his son is with them in the first place? You can lie to your son but that's not really what happened - if you read the note from the developers in the scrapbook they conclude by saying they were young when they made the games and grew up to be old and having kids of their own. The true secret being: they wanted to tell you all that the fantasy they made when younger was just that a fantasy, there was no true monkey island, no magic, no lechuck. The previous game even hinted at this - this was just a trip down memory lane and a way for the developers to say once and for all that there was no monkey island. (A classic Jedi Mind Trick). I'm happy to live in this fantasy that there really was a secret and go down this youtube rabbit hole where a bunch of you debate what it was but, far as I can tell - the developers grew up and had no more story to tell. You all just wanted an ending that wouldn't ever exist and I'm fine with that... I came to enjoy the game, not the ending. As for Guybrush lying to Boybrush: it's clear this is just what you would do as a storyteller: you weave the story to be your own and then you leave the person you told the ending to to make up their own minds what the ending meant. The ending was already told in the other game and you guys couldn't accept it the first time - having it happen here again repeating the same ending as told in this game just confirms it. Sure they could recon the ending here and say BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT REALLY HAPPENED! But from a narrative perspective, this ending makes the most sense and there just isn't an alternative ending that would satisfy me like Elaine says. The game is what it is, the fans wanted there to be more but there isn't Ron told you it's over, so really I think you should just accept that and move on.

@straightfuckingwater389

5 ай бұрын

the ending makes the game seem pointless though that's the problem

@mikhaelgribkov4117

2 ай бұрын

@@straightfuckingwater389 not really, it gives you choice of what you believe story is about, while embracing the fact that people other than Ron were part of it for long part of it and being about stories we share.

@straightfuckingwater389

2 ай бұрын

@@mikhaelgribkov4117 the developers wanted to end the series on the second game but people kept making weird ass theories on what ACTUALLY happened when the developers already had a thought in mind and it shows in this game where the secret to monkey Island is literally nothing it was always just a goal to keep the player going there isn't actually any secret there was nothing there guybrush was essentially just playing make believe the whole time

@straightfuckingwater389

2 ай бұрын

@@mikhaelgribkov4117 our choice doesn't really matter when the choice has already been made by the developers

Honestly, Ron Gilbert, I would have preferred the ME3 you had planned back in the day. You even spell it out... "it could not have lived up to your expectations" ... except, you know, our expectations _should not matter_ . You guys made ME1 and ME2 and wrote the story _you_ wanted, not the story _we_ wanted. The choose your own adventure answer to what the Secret is is... pretty sad, really. And not in the "I care" sad kind of way, in the "that is just sad" kind of way.

@WannabeMarysue

Жыл бұрын

There was no Monkey Island 3a planned back in the day. Ron has wanted to make another one for a while, but he had no grand plan he'd been holding onto for 30 years. And you don't get to choose the secret. You only got to chose what Guybrush told his son about it. From Ron Gilbert's blog, "When I made another Monkey Island", 1st of May 2022: "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. Here's the deal. The totality of that idea was "Guybrush chases the demon pirate LeChuck to hell and Stan is there." That's it. That's all it was. Games, movies, and books don't come out fully formed. They start as a morsel of an idea and then all the hard work begins. Roger Ebert had a great quote that I am constantly reminding myself of: "The muse visits during the act of creation, not before." 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. And that is exactly what Return to Monkey Island is. When Dave and I first got together to talk about Return to Monkey Island we had a nearly blank slate. We talked over ideas we'd had over the years including one of mine where Guybrush wakes up 3000 years in the future on a snowball Earth. We talked about my original "hell" idea but other Monkey Island games had already done much of that (by pure coincidence) and there was little point in rehashing it. The one thing I wanted to do was start the new game right where LeChuck's Revenge ended, and that became the one unmovable stone."

@NoName_NoTitle

Жыл бұрын

What is ME? Monkey Esland?

@damgful

Жыл бұрын

@@NoName_NoTitle Mass Effect, obviously

all these pretty much feel like "nothing is real/ it was all just a dream" ending, which is one of the worst ways you can end a story, specially a long ongoing series. Yeah sorry, this and the forced nostalgia beats (like littereally having an "Oh look at that thing, do you remember that?" input) made this game a huge dissapointment. Artstyle was actually pretty good and it had some interesting ideas and concepts, but Ron clearly did not focused on making an actual story. Sad I will have now 2 monkey island games I will skip when playing the series again

@tialneu

Жыл бұрын

For me the ending feels more like a father thats tells his son a story about his past adventures. The treasure card that Elain mentioned at the end is a hint that it was not daydreaming. Thats the way I feel about the ending.

@Daniel-ec8fj

Жыл бұрын

​@@tialneu THIS. Loved the ending! It's not actually meta or unsatisfying in that MI2 way, it's actually pretty warm and cozy and don't contradict Guybrush adventures at all. Also this is not the series ultimate 'ending' at all.

@Enriqueguiones

11 ай бұрын

It was garbage.

Terrible ways to end the series. Was hoping to have a good fight against Le chuck.

@shumayelkhan8154

Жыл бұрын

Same!

@fieratheproud

Жыл бұрын

It certainly was anti-climactic.

@shiroamakusa8075

Жыл бұрын

Umm, why? You got to fight LeChuck at the end in the five preceding games already, how would repeating this make it better?

@shumayelkhan8154

Жыл бұрын

@@shiroamakusa8075 I haven’t played the OG ones personally I think I could tell that’s why they made this game different this way, but it didn’t apply to me

@shumayelkhan8154

Жыл бұрын

@@shiroamakusa8075 I’m actually curious did you enjoy the ending? If so why? My theory is cause it adds to protagonists character development… chooses family over self destructive adventure

Developers trying to pull a “Sopranos” ending except it’s even shittier

@Blaquebarbgamer

5 ай бұрын

🧂-ty damn.

@jamesrcole78

5 ай бұрын

Once I understood what was going on in the Sopranos ending - that each time the bell rings, it switches to Tony’s viewpoint - the ending made perfect sense, and I thought it was quite good. I think it should have made it clearer that that’s what was going on.

@karlbaker9153

3 ай бұрын

Sorry you got filtered.

@Rodolfo17987

3 ай бұрын

Couldn't agree more!

It's ridiculous that Ron Gilbert expects us to sit through those unbelievably LONG and BORING credits each time to see the different post endings! May he burn in the Hell Portal under Monkey Island for such a decision! Had I known there were different endings (I couldn't stand to watch the credits even once originally, but did it just to see if it were true), I would have also saved closer to the end of the game. The nearest non-auto save was 1 hour of gameplay before the ending. The auto-save ending changed each time, of course AFTER the chest was opened, as well. No way am I going back to run through the last hour of the game (might take 15 minutes knowing what to do) just to have to sit through HOURS of the SAME CREDITS each time to see the ending. In short, thank GOD for TIMESTAMPS here so I don't have to!!!

@vitololol

6 ай бұрын

well I guess it wasnt made to you to watch all endings you just had a chance to choose one and go.

@straightfuckingwater389

5 ай бұрын

cry

People who see the world in Black or White will be disappointed. They want either gold or the journey to keep going. The fact that the journey was over and there was no gold will be too much for them. People who live in the real world and realise that nothing is black or white but only shades of Gray will realize the beauty of the game.

@thewhyman

5 ай бұрын

Now, to undercut the foundations of your entire argument: Most people who claim something to be a “Grey Area” have simply been too unwilling or too lazy to have looked closer at the issue as to differentiate between the “black” and the White” which only LOOKS like “grey” at a distant cursory glance... In short: For whatever reason, you haven't looked close enough to determine the truth... either black- or white. Q.E.D. [Furthermore, even the claim of grey areas insinuates that the truth cannot be known which makes it another form of the 'relativists fallacy' {look it up}- which makes it self-contradictory & self-defeating, (ie wrong).]

well, that was disappointing. the ending was dumb and confusing.

@dawnofthespirits3552

Жыл бұрын

Which ending? You could choose the ending you liked.

@kamranshah8804

Жыл бұрын

i was meaning the good ending, like i was glad that guybrush did had a happy ending, but the dumb and confusing thing was: was the whole series not real it was just stories made up by guybrush at a pirate theme park?

@BardianAngel

Жыл бұрын

@@kamranshah8804 What do you think? The game is literally giving you room to interpret.

@kamranshah8804

Жыл бұрын

what do you mean?

@BardianAngel

Жыл бұрын

@@kamranshah8804 Well, you asked "was the whole series not real it was just stories made up by guybrush at a pirate theme park?". I'm saying, the game is giving you room to decide whether that's true or not. What do you think is true? Did you leave with elaine or did you decide to go back?

This ending is absolutely insulting and it ruins the whole game.

@seavs1

11 ай бұрын

Yeah unreal what a disappointment! Just finished it 10 minutes ago, what a shame since the game itself was great.

@SirMoFoDans4

6 ай бұрын

I think I would have been happy with just the shirt instead of being implied that the game and, possibly by extension, the whole series is Guybrush making it all up or exaggerating his stories. And then there's this "whatever you choose is the right ending" angle that just makes me feel worse and more dissatisfied, especially coming off the back of Tales which felt like a nice epic conclusion to Guybrush's and Lechuck's rivalry.

@Rodolfo17987

3 ай бұрын

Insulting it's a very kind word for what this is!

Garbage "it's art, it's up to the viewer to interpret what it means" ending

@BardianAngel

Жыл бұрын

Garbage "I don't know how to interpret art and need a clickbait 'ending explained' video to tell me what to think" comment.

@chrish7308

Жыл бұрын

@@BardianAngel Garbage "Your comment made me emotional and I can't cope" comment

@BardianAngel

Жыл бұрын

@@chrish7308 Your comment was pretty disgusting.

@winstonsmith3703

Жыл бұрын

@@BardianAngel my guy he has done this type of ending for three games now I'm pretty sure it is because it is because he doesn't know how to or unwilling to end stories

@BardianAngel

Жыл бұрын

@@winstonsmith3703 Or he does it in a way you don't personally like. You're welcome to not like it, but that doesn't mean it's bad, does it?

Also I didn't like that they implied the crap that was MI4 and tales as canon. Instead Ron Gilbert should have discarded everything after MI2 and done his version of MI3 (I like curse but it was not Rons game). It feels like the story of MI2 was never concluded. I've been around for new star wars, new shenmue etc, everything is just dissapointing, Maybe it's better just to let things be. Meh.

@NiclasJanson

Жыл бұрын

lovey dovey Elaine is unbearable.

@nickeninja

Жыл бұрын

@@NiclasJanson What made it interesting was the on and the off again dynamic. Who wants to see Indiana Jones get married to Marion. No one. Same thing here.

@OG_Deadpool

Жыл бұрын

Tales was my first monkey island and i loved it. Underrated game.

@justininexile3445

11 ай бұрын

​@@OG_Deadpool My sequence was Curse->Tales->Secret SE->Revenge SE->Escape (could not finish because 3D art and sound were abysmal, basically hadn't aged too well)->Return; and I would say that Tales was the best one IMO, the facial expressions still hold up, the locations were more fun, some of the puzzles were a bit crap, but I liked how the puzzles integrated in the story and some of their redux had a cool impact of the emotional ending. I also really liked the implication that Vodoo Lady was somehow responsible for the events happening in the games. I also thought that Morgan LeFlay and Guybrush had fresh chemistry, something like father/daughter or brother/younger sister.

Thanks!