
Its overarching story involves – what else – the search for the Secret of Monkey Island, and that quest revolves around Guybrush’s never-ending rivalry with the zombie-pirate villain LeChuck, and their love-not-really-a-triangle with Elaine Marley. That showed me a new side of Monkey Island: its big heart, which becomes quickly evident in the playable Prelude that I won’t spoil here, and keeps getting called back to throughout. © 1990-2018 Lucasfilm Ltd.And what of the plot? Return is set just after Monkey Island 2, but it’s framed in a clever way I didn’t expect. in the United States and/or other countries. Monkey Island, Escape from Monkey Island, and the Monkey Island characters are trademarks of Lucasfilm Ltd. LucasArts and the LucasArts logo are trademarks of Lucasfilm Ltd.



Excerpted from "The Memoirs of Guybrush Threepwood: The Monkey Island Years"

Time for the biggest battle of my swashbuckling life. suddenly, the hairy finger of a familiar monkey tapped me on the shoulder. If I'd never picked up a sword, the grog-swilling pirates of the Tri-Island Area might be unthreatened by the forces of gentrification and demonic heckfire. If only I'd chosen a different path, LeChuck might still be dead and the Ultimate Insult might have remained a mystery. I'd ignored recent events that should have been warning shots across the bow of my soul, from my wife's brush with death to the anti-pirate ramblings of an Australian gazillionaire. Spitting the sand of Monkey Island from my mouth, I wondered if the life of a mighty pirate was all it was cracked up to be.
