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I absolutely loved Human LeChuck. He was refreshing, he was a change of pace and it was just a great take on the character. As much as I was initially scared of the idea after a weakened LeChuck in EMI, I ended up really enjoying it.
I really felt like LeChuck had suffered as a character in Curse and Escape. He was still very entertaining in both games and better than the somewhat interesting character present in Secret, but LeChuck seriously suffered from badass decay. His frame swelled to that of a ludicrously large size and he became much more of a buffoon. Gone were the days of dropping Guybrush in acid and here was eating slaw and serving as Ozzie's manservant.
In Tales LeChuck is again a totally evil badass. He UTTERLY plays Guybrush and everyone else for a total fool. LeChuck shows that he is definitely in some ways cunning. LeChuck even achieves his ultimate goal in MI2 of killing Threepwood.
What is really shocking though to me was what LeChuck did after killing Guybrush. LeChuck eagerly discards a rare opportunity for humanity and beauty in exchange for a hideous appearance and demonic voodoo powers. He asks Elaine for her hand in marriage but then appears to be totally willing to engage in a fight where she could die, something not seen before with LeChuck.
I really feel like Tales has given credibility to LeChuck again and revitalized my favorite character.
I really felt like LeChuck had suffered as a character in Curse and Escape. He was still very entertaining in both games and better than the somewhat interesting character present in Secret, but LeChuck seriously suffered from badass decay. His frame swelled to that of a ludicrously large size and he became much more of a buffoon. Gone were the days of dropping Guybrush in acid and here was eating slaw and serving as Ozzie's manservant.
In Tales LeChuck is again a totally evil badass. He UTTERLY plays Guybrush and everyone else for a total fool. LeChuck shows that he is definitely in some ways cunning. LeChuck even achieves his ultimate goal in MI2 of killing Threepwood.
What is really shocking though to me was what LeChuck did after killing Guybrush. LeChuck eagerly discards a rare opportunity for humanity and beauty in exchange for a hideous appearance and demonic voodoo powers. He asks Elaine for her hand in marriage but then appears to be totally willing to engage in a fight where she could die, something not seen before with LeChuck.
I really feel like Tales has given credibility to LeChuck again and revitalized my favorite character.
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I think whats been amazingly done by the Telltale team is you felt exactly what Guybrush was feeling. At the start you didn't buy the 'goodie goodie' act and felt convinced at every turn he was going to stab you in the back. When you had to grab the turtle I was 99% sure he was going to push Guybrush of the cliff and so on. Then as he seemed to prove himself and Guybrush started to trust him more that was when the player also started to trust him more and when he came to help Elaine and Guybrush at the end of ch4 you actually felt pleased to see him which made his revalation even more shocking.
I remember as a child (and even now) playing MI2 being terrified everytime Lechuck appeared in the corridor as Guybrush and feeling the real urgency to get the doll made fast - which is part of what made me fall in love with the game but in EMI LeChuck was just being used as a meek puppet and all that dramatic tense feelings had gone.
Definatley back to his best.
Seriously, eagerly, totally willing?
what are you trying to say :eek:
And writing.
Not true. LeChuck has previously shown willingness to make Elaine his "undead bride." Was he not intending to make her ride the rollercoaster in CMI?
Did LeChuck really swim for 3 days all the way to Flotsam Island?
And then he came into the court, which didn't surprise me; I figured he'd have to save Guybrush somehow. But the jungle scene totally took me by surprise.
I have a question, too. LeChuck seems pretty smart, but not very patient. How did he not get angry all those times when Guybrush was trying to annoy him or make him look bad? It seems like he really thought this one out first, which is either very good character development, or very uncharacteristic.
That pretty much goes without saying. Spiffy the SCUMM Bar dog > Charles L. Charles. I don't know what the character designer who did that one was thinking.
Also, I get the general impression that he'd have wound up trying to make Elaine undead regardless of how that last scene played out.
He was evil all along, but still, there always was something comical about him. Even in SMI already, when he says certain things like "After all these years of planning, almost destroyed by my death" (don't know it word by word right now), or doesn't realise he's going to marry two monkeys in a dress. Which makes me wonder if his death really interferred with his plans, and only now that he became alive/human again, could he follow through with his plans...
Where does Fester Shinetop fit into the inequality?
Not to forget the mental cruelty he practices. Also in said scene. He doesn't wait for Guybrush to die but proposes to Elaine before his very eyes, making sure Guybrush hears about the "stolen glances" they shared while he was away and claiming that Elaine developped feelings for him. Watch Guybrush's face at that moment. He looks more than a little bewildered.
Spiffy the SCUMM Bar dog > everyone.
Or maybe be she did, but now that it turned out that he just pretended to be the good guy she feels disgusted about the whole thing and wishes she would had never said those kind words to him.
I'm actually more curious as to how that (sword) fight between LeChuck and Elaine ends and what happens next with the two of them. We know for sure that Guybrush will be in the land of the dead and has to find a way out, but I wonder what happens in the land of the living during that time with mainly LeChuck, Elaine and the Voodoo Lady being left.
I could imagine the Voodo Lady getting in contact with Elaine - or vice versa - in order to give advise on how she should act next...
The fact that Telltale still got Earl Boen for this last scene (and probably/hopefully the last episode) shows just how much they care about their fans. They knew that there would be a few thousand, "Holy shit!"s as soon as we heard Boen. I think they did it just for that reason: to make us happy.
Telltale is so damn cool
I'm not so sure about that. Even his Narwhal zombie voice and his human voice are different. Adam Harrington stood in for Earl Boen and Kevin Blackton voiced him as a human, up until he absorbed the pox and Earl Boen came back. I'm guessing they had a reason for that.
I had a similar problem in Sam and Max. I thought they just went back and re-recorded the "not'chos" line, instead of them having replaced Max's voice actor with another person.
Wasn't it Earl Boen's voice since the "Unholy THIS!" line?
I haven't quite worked my way back to chapter 4 (I'm re-running the whole series, and I'm in the middle of Escape right now), so I've only seen the scene twice, so by the time I realized Earl Boen was back, it was too late for me to really notice where they switched over. But we're just splitting hairs here, what I meant was that Kevin Blackton voiced him as a human through the majority of Tales, up until he revealed himself as evil again.
I would have liked to hear how Blackton would have voiced an evil LeChuck, but it's only curiosity.
Also I approve very much of this topic. LeChuck is totally badass again.