![]() ![]() The "I hope he's not under some kind of horrible CURSE"/Carnival of the Damned out is still available. I personally feel like the anachronistic quirkiness and fourth-wall-breaking of the setting is maybe more interesting taken at face value than another "It was all just a dream/amusement park/video game" twist which we've had many times before, including in MI2 and Thimbleweed Park, but that's just one person's take on it. The ending (specifically the post-credits scene) also changes slightly based on what you tell Boybrush the Secret is, whether you take the key or not, whether you open the chest or not, and also whether you leave and 'go home' with Elaine or go back down the alley, up through the monkeys, and 'deny everything and return to the world you know.' Not sure I agree that any ending would be disappointing, a little more climax and denouement would still have been good here, I think, but I suppose the idea that we don't always get the chance to wrap up everything as neatly as we'd like makes sense for Ron Gilbert after not getting to close out the trilogy he started, 30 years back. The meta moral seems to be that the Secret is up to interpretation, means something different to everyone, would be disappointing no matter what if you knew the truth, and is kind of ambiguous no matter how you spin it.
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