Some retro game" and wanted the art style to be "provocative".
Return to Monkey Island was pirate games.
In a new post on his LittleBigPlanet designer Rex Crowle. "Monkey Island 1 and 2 weren't pixel art games," Gilbert says. "They were games using state-of-the-art tech and art… If I had stayed and done Monkey Island 3, it wouldn't have looked like Monkey Island 2."
The team apparently discussed pixel art, but Gilbert says "it didn't feel right. We didn't want to make a retro game… I wanted to keep moving Monkey Island forward because it's interesting, fun, and exciting. It's what the Monkey Island games have always done."
Gilbert confirms he wanted the game's art to be "provocative, shocking, and not what everyone was expecting". He has nothing but praise for Rex Crowle, calling the art director "an amazing creative force" and that his people are "pouring their souls into this game and it's beautiful to see".
"Return to Monkey Island may not be the art style you wanted or were expecting," the developer adds, "but it's the art style I wanted."
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