Miscellaneous Extra Stuff
Writer's Cut
In the "Text and Language" portion of the settings menu, you'll spot this option. It claims to offer worse pacing and more dialogue, and that's what it does. It's only really noticeable if you play the game a couple times without it. I turned this on for my first playthough on Switch, and when I went through the PC version while writing this guide I had it off and didn't initially noticed a difference except for one thing that I though I somehow glitched out.
Mostly what you'll run into are more dialogue choices. Like during an NPC's answer to something you said, you'll have the option to chime in with another thought partway through. One of the main ones I noticed was Guybrush saying something to Flambe both before and after noticing that Madison's ship was short a skull, rather than just watching the whole scene play out before talking to him.
The big one, however, is right in the beginning of the game. Once you talk to the Pirate Leaders and head to Low Street, you can find the old Pirate Leaders hanging out beside the map shop. Guybrush will initially confuse them for the Men Of Low Moral Fiber from the first two games, and then you can chat with them. If Writer's Mode is off, they do not appear at all.
Extra Scene
During Part IV, you'll be interrupted a few times by scenes of Elaine talking to people in the aftermath of your puzzle-solving rampage. If you capture the flag from the adrift ship early enough, you'll get a scene where Elaine is scrambling to find the flyer mock up. If you do this part toward the end of the Golden Key quest, you'll miss out on this scene entirely.
Endings
There are three main endings you can get, with a few minor variations on one of them.
Regular Endings
At the very end, turn off all the lights as directed by Stan then tell Elaine you're ready to go. Boybrush is none too pleased with the tale's end and demands to know what the actual secret was. You'll have a list of choices, and each one will trigger a difference scene to play out after the credits roll.
Dead Dead Dead
If you're underwater for too long, you'll eventually drown. Boybrush calls you out for being a silly storyteller, and Guybrush will pick up the tale before the drowning. Do this three times and it will be final, and you'll get an extremely somber ending.
The quickest way to get this is after LeChuck throws you overboard at the end of Part II. Each time you leave the screen, two minutes pass. This makes it much quicker to run out the eight minute breath clock.
I Don't Believe
At the end when you're directed by Stan to shut off the lights, head back into the alleyway and use the keyring on the Employees Only door. Retrace your steps through the Monkey Island tunnels until Guybrush leaves, and you'll get this ending. Nothing fancy, but you get a short scene after the credits roll showing Guybrush's new life.
