

One is to "Hit that guy over there" at which point he throws a dart at the player and cracks the screen. Guybrush is challenging a master dart player to some difficult and later insane trick shots. But early in the game a literal example happens. Breaking the Fourth Wall: Being Monkey Island it's to be expected.Bond Villain Stupidity: LeChuck tries to defy this once he and Ozzie Mandrill have Guybrush at their mercy, saying "I've left him alive before, and it's always proved to be a big mistake." But Mandrill argues that they might need him as a hostage, so they maroon him on Monkey Island.Batman Cold Open: The game begins with a battle against nondescript pirates, in which the player must learn to utilize Guybrush's unique adventuring skills.Bank Toaster: Referenced where an option to end the Dialogue Tree with a bank teller is to act outraged at the lack of free toasters.

Guybrush soon discovers Mandrill is not only in league with a yet-again-resurrected LeChuck, but the two are after a sinister artifact known as the "Ultimate Insult" that will allow them to rule the Caribbean.Īfter being hard to find for a long time, the game was finally made available digitally on GOG.com and Steam in 2018. Furthermore, a sinister Australian businessman named Ozzie Mandrill has been buying up property all around the Caribbean, driving out the indigenous pirate-themed businesses (and the pirates along with them) in favor of coffee houses, theme restaurants, and other tourist traps. Guybrush and Elaine return from their honeymoon to find two problems: Elaine has been gone so long she's been declared legally dead, and is thus no longer governor of the Tri-Island area, forcing her to run for re-election against the challenger "Charles L. It was also the first 3D game of the series (which used a modified version of the engine from Grim Fandango). Excerpted from The Memoirs of Guybrush Threepwood: The Monkey Island YearsĮscape from Monkey Island is the fourth game in the Monkey Island series, released in 2000 by LucasArts.
