“Indiana Jones and the Great Circle” answers decades-old questions of knowledge

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle sheds new light on the breakup between Indy and Marion Ravenwood. The upcoming game thus answers a decades-old lore question Indiana Jones Fans have been thinking about it since the 80s.



Spoilers for the entire Indiana Jones film franchise as it relates to Marion Ravenwood follow. Also spoilers for the first hour of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

Marion Ravenwood is one of the most famous characters from the Indiana Jones franchise, primarily because she is the original and most well-known love interest of the titular protagonist. But even though he plays a prominent role Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) she is nowhere to be seen The Temple of Doom (1984), namely only The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) that she is finally reunited with Indy. The films themselves never explain exactly how the two broke up.


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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle features some of the best puzzles and tomb raiding in a video game, and in many ways fits Spielberg's films.

40 years later The Temple of Doom made the separation of Indy and Marion canon, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle provides long-awaited clarity on how this came to be. As ComicBook notes, the game's introductory sequence shows Indy finding a gift from Marion in the form of a new diary, prompting his mentor Marcus Brody to question him about the gift's origins. While Indy is initially evasive, it is later revealed that he suddenly abandoned Marion to go to Siwa in Egypt to escape some problems that had developed in their relationship. All of this takes place between the events of the first two Indiana Jones Films in which the new game takes place.


Indy avoided Marion for months before Great Circle events

The game's opening sequence also reveals that Marion has been trying to contact Indy for several months after he left her. While in Egypt, Brody was the one who answered the calls from Marion, which eventually stopped. All of this means that her breakup was initiated by Indy, who essentially ghosted her until she gave up.


As for his reasons for doing so, the fourth Indiana Jones The film offers some clues about this. While Kingdom of the Crystal SkullIndy tells Marion that he never won an argument with her, implying that they argued a lot and that he felt insecure around her.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will be released on December 9th. Anyone who purchased the Digital Premium upgrade for $34.99 has been able to play it since December 6th. While the day one version of the game will be exclusive to Xbox Series X/S and PC, Microsoft has already confirmed this Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is also on the way to the PS5. The game is currently scheduled to release on Sony's current-generation console sometime in spring 2025.

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