Return to Monkey Island will have its own take on an easy mode

Ron Gilbert’s upcoming Return to Monkey Island will have an easy mode, at least of sorts.

Chatting to Ars Technica, the creator revealed a hint system will be included in the upcoming release. “[One thing] that people really want in games today are built-in hint systems,” Gilbert explained, retconning his previous desires to shun any such mechanic.

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“If [players] don’t have a built-in hint system, they’re just going to jump over to the web and… read a walkthrough”

Gilbert continued, “[There was] a lot of stuff that we did [during the production of The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island: LeChuck’s Revenge] and didn’t think much about—a lot of very obscure puzzles.

“Hiding a piece of information somewhere with no clues about where to find it—that kind of thing just wouldn’t fly today… Having hint systems means that if you make the puzzle just completely weird and obscure, people just go to the hint system.”