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Imagine if Star Wars, instead of resolving the reveal that Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker's father, completely ignored it. Or, at best, made a few joke references to it and went about its business as if nothing really happened.
That would be crazy, right?
But that's sort of what happened with Monkey Island, the pirate-theme, cult point-and-click adventure series created by Lucasarts. After dropping two classic video games in 1991 and 1992, Lucasarts woudn't release another Monkey Island game until 1997. And when that game was released, it completely skimmed over the cliffhangers that took place in Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. Including a reveal that the game's major bad guy, The Ghost Pirate LeChuck, was actually the protagonist Guybrush Threepwood's brother.

This happened, partly, because the game's creator, legendary game developer Ron Gilbert, left Lucasarts just a few short years after the release of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. To continue the Star Wars analogy: Imagine George Lucas, after releasing Empire Strikes Back, decided to give up on Star Wars completely, leave it in the hands of a completely different group of people and do something completely different for the next two decades.

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