Ron declares he is working on a new Monkey Island

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@Giorgio

I immediately recalled something he wrote in that chat: «It was not meant to be a cliff hanger».

I’ve always wondered if he was joking (as in the Special Edition commentary: «This is were it all comes together and is explained fully») or if he intended to say that the ending was not originally meant to be a cliffhanger but then ended up being a cliffhanger as a result of little adjustments and additions which the initial idea for the ending underwent.

To put events in perspective, it’s important to say that when the development of MI2 was almost finished, Ron still didn’t have an ending, any ending. So he panicked.
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In my opinion, with “It was not meant to be a cliff hanger” he just meant that the ending of MI2 was a result of a last-minute panic-induced decision, not something planned.