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The Nextlander Podcast 044: Say Yes to the Yoke
🕑 Added 2022-04-06 22:20:18 +0000 UTCNow that releases are slowing down, we’re taking a look at some smaller games this week like the Tribeca-winning Norco, Moss: Book II, and the Kaycee’s Mod add-on for Inscryption, plus the no-really-for-real death of E3, the return of Return to Monkey Island, MODOK thoughts, feet in VR headsets, Vinny’s pilot aspirations, and more!
CHAPTERS
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id spoilers. Thanks for listening.
(00:00:10) Intro
(00:02:21) Never and always MODOK
(00:05:03) X-rays of things that we should never know
(00:07:43) Don't buy a flying wheel
(00:12:29) The Games
(00:12:49) Norco [PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac] on Mar 24, 2022
(00:26:08) First Break
(00:26:44) Inscryption: Kaycee's Mod [PC (Microsoft Windows)] on Mar 17, 2021
(00:35:13) Moss: Book II [PlayStation VR] on Mar 31, 2022
(00:42:53) Lost Judgment: The Kaito Files [PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One] on Mar 28, 2022
(00:45:54) Kirby and the Forgotten Land [Nintendo Switch] on Mar 25, 2022
(00:46:47) Weird West [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S] on Mar 31, 2022
(00:50:01) Tunic [Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One] on Mar 16, 2022
(00:51:28) The games we talked about
(00:52:24) Second Break
(00:52:28) News
(00:52:35) E3 2022 or lack of an E3 2022
(01:11:15) Some senators respond to the pending Activision / Microsoft merger
(01:20:06) A new Tomb Raider is officially in the works
(01:24:48) Ron Gilbert is working on a new Monkey Island game
(01:35:55) Hypnospace Outlaw getting a sequel
(01:36:30) Hyper Light Drifter also getting a sequel!
(01:37:12) Wrapping up and thanks
(01:38:21) Mysterious Benefactor Shoutouts
(01:40:21) Nextlander content updates
(01:42:18) See ya!
Comments
Peter Silk
Pertinent twitter quote from Ron Gilbert about his approach to the new game: "MI3 doesn't fall out of canon. We were very careful about that. Murray is in this game." So it sounds like his approach has softened somewhat here, which I personally welcome. I'm interested in what Ron does coming back to MI, but I don't want that to be totally at the expense of the other stuff -- which was of variable (but sometimes very good) quality. So I'm glad that this announcement comes also with a bunch of announcements about other people involved like Dave Grossman, the 3 ex lucasarts composers and some other pretty canny choices like Khris Brown on casting and voice direction. As far as I can figure out the game is a follow up to Monkey Island 2, but somehow without completely destroying the canon of everything that followed. Not sure how that works, since Murray is met (and created) in the early parts of MI3, but perhaps we're into some sort of time/dimension shenanigans. That wouldn't be entirely inconsistent with MI lore.
David Chambers
Murray the demonic talking skull is in the trailer for Return to Monkey Island and he wasn't introduced until Curse of Monkey Island. Other great Ron Gilbert franchises include Deathspank and Putt Putt.
