your favourite LeChuck?
what is your favourite LeChuck?
if you don't remember them all, let me sum them up for you.:
in The Secret of Monkey Island we had this big, mighty and proud ghost LeChuck. arrogant and full of himself, and with an appearance resemblant of Bluto. semi-goofy and fumbling, but without a doubt a strong and mighty man. a quite comedic rendition.
for LeChuck's Revenge we have a drastically different zombie-like LeChuck. he's green and spooky. flesh and blood, but not completely living. he doesn't look or act all mighty and look-at-me. instead he appears to be a bit weak and meek. but he's juts so evil! and he has pretty frightening plans for you (Guybrush). it's just an overall twisted and sinister LeChuck. really scary, and my obvious favourite of the bunch.
well... what can I say? he has a flame beard. he can... burn you. so back to a more comedic approach. he's also big and mighty again. a bit of a return to SoMI. not in ghost form though. he's kind of a demon here.
now this is just the same as CoMI, only better looking. not much more to say. he appears in multiple versions though, so that's good.
if you don't remember them all, let me sum them up for you.:
in The Secret of Monkey Island we had this big, mighty and proud ghost LeChuck. arrogant and full of himself, and with an appearance resemblant of Bluto. semi-goofy and fumbling, but without a doubt a strong and mighty man. a quite comedic rendition.
for LeChuck's Revenge we have a drastically different zombie-like LeChuck. he's green and spooky. flesh and blood, but not completely living. he doesn't look or act all mighty and look-at-me. instead he appears to be a bit weak and meek. but he's juts so evil! and he has pretty frightening plans for you (Guybrush). it's just an overall twisted and sinister LeChuck. really scary, and my obvious favourite of the bunch.
well... what can I say? he has a flame beard. he can... burn you. so back to a more comedic approach. he's also big and mighty again. a bit of a return to SoMI. not in ghost form though. he's kind of a demon here.
now this is just the same as CoMI, only better looking. not much more to say. he appears in multiple versions though, so that's good.
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The graphics back then were simplistic at best, though, so it'll be cool to see what LucasArts do if they make an MI2 Special Edition; somewhere between MI4's zombie-LeChuck and the MI2 zombie-LeChuck would be super :-)
So here's the portrayals of my favourite version, i.e. zombie-leChuck:
e.g. Here's LeChuck in MI2:
Here he is in CMI:
(I think LeChuck probably suffered most of all the characters in translation from MI2 to MI3)
and here he is in EMI:
He's a bit too, uninspiring in EMI. Like, how could that thing possibly threaten Guybrush, a swift kick in the cahoonas and his head should fall off.
I think the beard of MI2's LeChuck was just right, the rotting-corpseness of MI4 was right (though MI2 couldn't realistically add this in, however the box-art of LeChuck doesn't look best to me). I think LeChuck needed to be a rotting corpse, but also with a big red jacket and well-built, to still provide a feeling of awe. He loses that in his 'history' forms in MI4.
Did that make any sense at all? :P
Followed by his Tales look, followed then by the in-game Curse art. I don't really like his art in any of the other games in comparison.
LeChuck in general is just class though.
1. He has part of the Serious Sam logo on his face, that just looks silly. Whomever came up with the fire beard should be bonked on the head, because it's clearly the worst aspect.
2. He moved a little too smoothly, he might be slightly more powerful but he's still a zombie, and Lechuck's Revenge conveyed that well in the way he moves, CMI didn't convey that aspect of him at all.
So really, what I'd like to see is something with the style of CMI's Lechuck, but with a non-horrid beard plus the more awkward, slow movements that really give him that animated look of a zombie.
It's always been my opinion that they didn't give him a 'unique' form for the 4th game because they were afraid of upsetting die hard fans, which is possibly quite ironic considering how irate some of them were. (You know who you are. Let's face it; you're bitter about it, even now!)
Yeah, I always liked that the voodoo lady makes a point of explaining the difference between his ghost form and his zombie form in that game. I thought, if LeChuck was intimidating as a ghost, then he must be absolutely terrifying as an animated corpse.
It kind of annoyed me that he could just switch forms at will in the fourth game. But as far as continuity is concerned, that's probably the least of that game's problems.
He used to switch forms a lot during cutscenes, but he'd pick the classic one everytime after you realize he was that guy in purple.
Plus Earl Boen's voice work gives an advantage.
(Not that I'd actually want to try that, mind you - I only have that kind of beard because I'm just too lazy to shave more often...
np: Tosca - Annanas (Suzuki)