Yeah, I just don't like how that game ends. Endings are important. That is what people will remember the most clearly about your game afterwards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7laf9tI-Po
Just look up how Tales of Monkey Island ends with an incredibly heartwarming puzzle after a big cinematic showdown with LeChuck alongside your clostest allies in that game:
"Courage, Anchor, Direction, Sacrifice. Place these things in a Ring at the center of the crossroads."
Before in this chapter you had to find four items representing these things before and place them in a ring. Here Guybrush realizes that the description also perfectly fits their wedding ring!
That was the first and only Monkey Island I played. The rest I just watched playthroughs of.
So did you watch the playthroughs first or played this game first?
I know it doesn't matter at this point, but Button Mash and Sweetie's relationship value in Rumors was intended to be OBJECTIVE, not ARBITRARY.
I thought it was adorable, especially how it started with Button Mash thinking that Sweetie Belle is suffering from amnesia when he checks her status with his gaming magic and sees that she barely knows he exists. It makes perfect sense from his perspective and then they build a geniune relationship for real.
PROLOGUE TO FALSE PONYVILLE ARC!