Return to Monkey Island is a very strange game, because it doesn’t really answer any of the questions that we, as fans, had been waiting for. The game and the journey itself was, in a word: wonderful. The puzzles were moderately challenge, most of them were fairly clever. In a puzzle based point-and-click adventure franchise it played beautifully. The visuals were great, and the game had some great new character additions that really fleshed out the universe in ways that really appeals to us.

However, for all of the amazing additions to this game, and the fandom even received it, there is one major problem that just smacked both Kresh and I in the face while playing.

The ending… or rather, the entire lack of it.

 I can’t even begin to name the ways in which Monkey Island as a franchise, and this particular game in general goes on completely unresolved. There are a handful of story elements that make no sense at all because they didn’t receive firm closure. We could easily look beyond that somewhat small issue, but the ending itself was so abrupt that it makes the above complaint jarring… even infuriating.

Now some may claim that the ending of this game is certainly the average Ron Gilbert that fans could come to expect, and we shouldn’t have expected proper conclusions because of this… and you know what? I’m not against that viewpoint entirely. I just wish (and Kresh does too) that we had a much more conclusive and satisfying ending than the one we received.

This fan song was a long time coming, lyrics are in the video… hopefully, if you’re like us, it brings you some level of catharsis… lol.