GamesBeat talks with the Return to Monkey Island designers
Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman gave another interview to talk about the Return to Monkey Island. Most questions by GamesBeat had already been asked before or were very generic. The most interesting one was about the monkey wrench puzzle, to which Grossman explained:
The Monkey Wrench puzzle from LeChuck's Revenge is notoriously unsolvable and was not a good design on several levels. Even if you are an English speaker from a location where the tool in question is commonly called a "monkey wrench," and you realize that that's what you need, you still have to make an astonishing predictive leap about how your actions will create that tool. Nothing in the game sets any of it up adequately.