Vuelve Monkey Island de la mano de Devolver Digital y Ron Gilbert

Hello Mr Falstein! We don't know each other, but I'd like to share with you a personal story concerning that classic masterpiece you wrote called Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. Maybe you could say its a very late bug report haha. But it's something that always comes to my mind when I remember that game, and I'd like to know if there is a story behind it. I hope I don't bore you talking about a game you made 30 years ago.

I was playing one of my favoite games back then: it was around 1997, when the 12 year old me found out something strange: While wandering through the labyrinth at Knossos, with the animation of Indy walking across the screen through several screens, I started to get nervous. So I started doing strange things during the walks. In one of this screens (walking right to left across some doors) I clicked "open + entrenching tool" (that shovel in the inventory) and then, all of a sudden, the fight interface pops up.
And thought there was no enemy in sight, I realized that Indy was fighting an invisible enemy: I could punch it, and it WAS punching me: I could see the indy animation receiving the blows.

The life bar of that enemy was really big, much bigger than mine. I could not dream of beating it. And, just like my life bar featured the name (Indy) the name on its one was so strange: SOL DE MEDIODIA (midday sun in spanish. I played the translated version). It beat me, of course, leading to character death and loading the game.

The best is that I had a savegame not very far from it, and I could replicate the effect lots of times, all of them being beaten by the invisible Midday Sun. I was a kid then, and I had no internet or other way to learn that there was a "cheat" that allowed one to win every fight in the game (pressing 0 in the numeric keyboard if I remember correctly) but I always wondered what could happen if I managed to beat that thing.

I lost that savegame somehow eventually, and later in my life I have tried to replicate the event, if only to prove its existance to my brother and cousins, who also loved the game then and I never managed to show it to them. But there was no way to do it: It just didn't happen. The last time I tried to hunt this was during the pandemic lockdowns, the most productive thing I could possibly think haha! I am certain that it was on the "wits path", as it is the only path that allows you to get the entrenching tool before the Crete Island part. But maybe its something about the game version, IDK.

There is something else: In the "map room" at the end of the labyrinth, there are many (unclickable) doors, all adorned with suns and moons in different phases. The door that opens is random for each game, though it always leads to the same room in all games. The one that opened for me then was the one depicting a Midday Sun. Maybe there is something tying there. Maybe the trick didn't work in other games because the randomizer that decides which door opens, which instructions does the Plato's dialogue has, and other random events, has to select a determinate result for it to work.

I dont know. I don't even know if you know. I don't know if it was a bug, an easter egg, or something else. But I know it fascinated me then and I still remember it from time to time, and I'd like to know if you can tell me something about it. It means a lot to me.

Also I have seen you have been playstesting the new Monkey 3! so jealous!

Have a nice day, and thanks a lot for the passion you put in your works.

Jack