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Originally Posted by Chyron8472

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It's a STUPID ENDING. It's just one big "what the f*ck?!"... I mean, seriously. Ambiguity be damned. To leave the storyline hanging like that with NO explanation why the carnival was even necessary to the story... for 6 years the story had ended that way.

The best endings to all works of fiction are the endings that force the reader/viewer/player to think. If Guybrush had simply defeated LeChuck at the end of MI2, married Elaine and found a valuable treasure called Big Whoop, how many people would still care about the story? How many people would still remember the ending, almost 20 years after the game came out? MI2 reinforced the Monkey Island franchises mysterious and secretive atmosphere, giving the players a sense that there were more going on in this world than they were told, which has fuelled discussions and debates about the game for many, many years, and I believe has been largely responsible for the loyal MI fanbase that still existed a decade after the last game was relased. The MI world is filled with secrets and mysteries, and CMI ended up almost dispelling that atmosphere.

Hell no, it doesn't make sense. There is no connection between the carnival/corridors and the rest of the story of MI2. LeChuck saying he's Guybrush's brother is nothing more than using a Star Wars reference as a lame plot twist (I love Empire Strikes Back, but that reference was eye-rolling.) You also realize that LeChuck basically wins. At least he's defeated at the end of EMI, even with EMI's other faults.

Hence the title: LeChuck's Revenge. Besides, not all good works of fiction has to end with the hero defeating the villain. Ever read Brave New World? The Trial? Very few of my favourite books ends with the protagonist simply defeating the antagonist and going on to live happily ever after. I'll leave that to big-budget Hollywood movies aiming to please as large audiences as possible.

If anyone says that a better explanation than CMI's would have been that Guybrush really is a kid in a theme park, I will kill them.

Wow.

There's already a thread or 5 about that, and a large number of people, including myself, have said that it might have been okay if it was part of Ron's trilogy, but now that Monkey Island has been around for so long that many of us have grown up with it... making it so that even Guybrush knows it's fake would ruin the whole blasted thing.

Although Guybrush being a kid in a theme park is an absolutely credible answer to what happens at the end of MI2, that is not the only possible alternative to LeChuck building a theme park on Monkey Island. There have been several well though-out and sound theories by fans over the years, that are much more interesting and exciting than CMI's "carneval cop-out".