Die unendliche Geschichte going on up there guys? Probably.
Anyway Mark Ferrari talks about defining existance as storytelling, through natural processes of our brain that costantly rebuilds our memories and intentions in the interview I’ve posted in those other threads, claiming that is - essentially - the Secret of Monkey Island, basically that everyone of us is capable of imagining and living his own story, and becoming aware of that means discovering the secret.
I’ve always thought the Secret of Monkey Island was the fact that the story of Guybrush was just a fantasy from a guy of our times (that justifies all the anachronisms), and this was developed in the sequel as a fantasy play with his brother who impersonates the bad guy, probably during a visit in a theme park in which the kid gets lost and fear the abandonment by his parents.
Telling people: “the secret of Monkey Island is just the fact that it’s all a kid’s fantasy” may appear commonplace and prosaic, and given the quality of the work, the authors realized the concept could be digged more giving it more significance.