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Spoilers for the newest game.
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The frame story of Returns, where Guybrush is telling an account of his life story to his son, is that a filter we're now supposed to retroactively apply to the whole series? The end of this game, another "it's all just Disneyland" ending like Revenge had, felt very pointedly like a cover-up.The whole story is low-key building up this theme of Guybrush actually being a terrible person and his quest being both personally unhealthy and harmful to those around him, with little things like the game silently marking off the checklist of horrible things he did on the how-to-be-evil pamphlet he got from LeChuck and big things like Elaine confronting him with his actions while they travel together, so when the ending turns into such an anti-climactic non-sequitur it reads like he can't bring himself to tell his son the truth of what happened and you hope it's because he actually gave up the quest and knows that isn't the story kids want to be told but fear it's because shit got real in a different sense and he doesn't want Boybrush to view him in that light.
With that in mind, now I can't stop wondering if that's what the Carnival of the Damned always was: an act of self-censorship by the hypothetical storyteller.