Monkey Island is in your FACE! 02 Jan, 2009, 19:33 / 3 comments
Go look at The Campbellian Myth of Monkey Island, which may or may not be the title of Monkey Island 5 (oh my God oh my God let's donate to the SCUMM Bar!). Go read you fool, go!
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Go look at The Campbellian Myth of Monkey Island, which may or may not be the title of Monkey Island 5 (oh my God oh my God let's donate to the SCUMM Bar!). Go read you fool, go!
3 Comments
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Icebox on 02 Jan, 2009, 21:36…Interesting article, but explaining how the ubiquitous hero myth factors into our favorite game is meaningless. It's already a given that HWTF is inherent in all stories, games, and movies. What matters is the context, which is why Monkey Island is preferable to, say, LOOM. By putting that monomyth into a new context, Ron is effectively masking it in a novel way. Just like Shakespeare, Master Gilbert made a cliched genre new again by changing the style, moving what would have been action-adventure into the comedy realm, and infusing with healthy doses of anachronism. It is this wacky unconventional behavior which truly differentiates MI from its competitors and rivals.
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Kroms on 02 Jan, 2009, 22:34…I just want to say that I love the fact that you compared Ron Gilbert and William Shakespeare. :D
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Glo_kidd on 02 Jan, 2009, 19:42…Joseph Campell's Hero with a thousand faces is one of my favorite books of all time. The man knows his hero mythos :P