What age is LeChuck?
How old is LeChuck?
If he was engaged to Griswald's great aunt Minnie Goodsoup... doesn't that make him kinda old? Does LeChuck even have an age seeing as he's dead most of the time?
If he was engaged to Griswald's great aunt Minnie Goodsoup... doesn't that make him kinda old? Does LeChuck even have an age seeing as he's dead most of the time?
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I thought about that too when I played Curse a few days ago. At first, I thought it was LeChuck's age that was the problem, but I realized that most things point to the problem being the "Great Aunt" bit. Here's what I got.
-Griswold was the one who sealed up the room after Charles DeGoulash died, while Minnie was still alive, so he was already old enough to be in charge of the hotel while she was still considered a debutante.
-LeChuck sold the diamond to King Andre, and while he doesn't exactly look young, he doesn't look like an old man yet either.
-LeChuck's entire goal with Minnie Goodsoup was to get her diamond so he could sell it in order to buy a ship so he could beat Marley to Big Whoop in order to win Elaine. How old does Elaine look in SoMI to you?
So yeah, the only way that Minnie is Griswold's great aunt is if she had a much older sibling who had a child who had a child (Griswold) before or around the same time that Griswold's great grandparents even Minnie. I'm thinking it either involved a lot of teen pregnancy (in order for Minnie's mother to still be young enough to have children by the time she was a great grandmother) or we should just consider the whole thing to be an oversight and throw it out.
Assuming that LeChuck stopped aging when he died and that his human form in Tales is more or less what he looked like before he died, I'm going to say that he's been in his mid 30s for the past 20 years. Unlike Guybrush, though, there's never been any explicit mention of LeChuck's age at any point in the series.
Elaine looks to be about 19yo in SMI (original version) to me. I'd go as far as to guess that Guybrush was 17yo in SMI (btw I hate his new model in SE).
My hypothesis is that Elaine was 17yo when LeChuck came round to her mansion for dinner and he was about twice that age. Minnie wasn't much older when she was conned.
I still don't buy the Herman Toothrot = H. T. Marley thing. It completely contradicts what we learned of Herman in SMI and what we learned about Captain Marley in MI2 & CMI.
God knows what Telltale will do (I say that meaning they have their work cut out) with Monkey Island if it does feature in the final chapter of Tales. It was sacriledge to a lot of fans what Escape did to it and yet it's canon. Oh, did anyone find any purpose for the cairn being there in Escape? (or the penny on Lucre Harbour, for that matter)
what penny was that?
Any purpose for the what? And yes, what penny?
Maybe Griswold didn't mean she was his great-aunt, but that she was a great aunt.
As for LeChuck's age, I always figured he is somewhere in his 40's or maybe 50's.
I think so, too. Too old for Elaine, anyway.
The penny was on the ground if you went past Carla at the Harbourmaster's Office (on the next screen, where it zooms out so that you can see the whole dock again. If you looked at it, Guybrush says "Ooh, look! A lucky penny!" but when you try to pick it up, he says "But it's glued to the ground."
Wasn't that the boulder chutes puzzle at the vista point?
Was it there earlier in the game? It could've been a red herring for the Grog machine, from when the return slot was empty early in the game.
That puzzle still never works for me when I use the branches to get my timing. I have to use a stopwatch instead, and the timing is way off from the branches when it finally works. So no, I don't think it's meant as a reminder of the catapult, I think it was just a device to torture us.
ohh yh I guess its a red herroin
When the game first came out and the PC I had next (bought a year after, brand new), that puzzle worked fine with the branches. It's just that the puzzle designers didn't allow for the PCs to run it too fast so as to get it out of sync.
I read somewhere that some fans are working on a program like ScummVM that'll handle Escape and Grim Fandango on modern PCs.
Yeah, it's a sister project to ScummVM called Residual. Apparently it can run Grim Fandango but not Escape yet.