Posted on: April 3, 2017

Shendue

Spiele: Rezensionen: 10

The lost Lucasarts adventure

This game has a wonderful "Lucasarts" feel; from the interface to graphics and humour, everything is an obvious nod to the adventures of the past. There's more than a little reference to classics like Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island, from the very same authors Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick. The homages go as far as to actually show characters from their classics in a scene of the game, and there's plenty of nods and 4th-wall breaking jokes. The graphics has a retro, pixelated-art style, very similar to Zak McKracken and Maniac Mansion, but more refined. The music is rather good, while not as memorable as it was in the Monkey Island series. Where the game shines is in puzzles and humour. The puzzles and underlying mechanics are very clever and completely ridicule 95% of the other modern point-and-click adventures out there. It's just like a lesson in adventure games making, courtesy of Mr. Gilbert. It's not completely free of flaws, tho, which is part of why I didn't give the game a full 5/5. One of the puzzles, in particular, involves finding an object that is not visible and never hinted at, therefore you gotta go by sheer luck pointing the cursor somewhere. Since the game actively mocks pixel hunting by letting you collect single dust particles during the game, I was suprised that it, in fact, has some pixel hunting, sorta, itself. Everything involving operating the elevator, also, is pretty tedious, long and boring. Two of the main characters, agent Ray and agent Reyes, are pretty much carbon-copies of each other, with the exact same dialog options 90% of the times. Still, those defects, while notable, do not detract from the general enjoyment of the excellent gameplay and exquisite story. Speaking of the story, I am not going to spoil anything about it, but mind that the ending is potentially as divisive as Monkey Island 2's ending was. I personally didn't dislike it, but it didn't feel like the game strongest part to me. Overall, this is STRONGLY reccomended.

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Posted on: December 27, 2020

tucajda

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Spiele: 68 Rezensionen: 1

Promising beginning, unfulfilling ending

What is presented in the trailer and game descriptions on distribution platforms is not really what you get when in the game. The first half of Thimbleween Park is fun to play. Characters are being introduced and it is exactly what you expect from a classical point & click adventure. Past the half the logic of the game breaks. There is no real connection between some of the characters that need to cooperate, puzzles become convoluted and you will most likely need to use the in-game hint system or walkthrough to move past them. The end game twist is plain stupid and makes you feel stupid for investing time into this. This game is not a murder mystery adventure its just a joke game. Please, if you want to play actually good point & click game, go for Wadjet Eye adventures, try Unawoved or the Blackwell series.

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Posted on: October 31, 2017

4demon

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Spiele: 201 Rezensionen: 6

The "Lost" of Video Games

Remember the TV show "Lost"? Remember how good that started? Remember how it just spiralled down into a confusing mess with a sudden and even more bizzare ending? Yeah, that's how I felt with this game. It honestly feels like the developers weren't sure how to end the game, so just came up with something convoluted whilst thinking themselves clever. The game does things most developers avoid. For example, I was stuck for ages, and it turned out that completely randomly a building I needed to visit had opened, while it had remained shut for the the vast majority of the game. There was no indication that it was open or that I needed to visit it. I just randomly clicked on it after wandering around clueless for ages, and I suppose got lucky. Again, bad game design in the modern age. MINOR MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD So, you start the game as a detective trying to solve a murder. HOWEVER, you never ever get to really solve the murder. Honestly, I'm not entirely sure who committed the murder. I mean, I have an idea, but if I was to actually give the killer a name, I wouldn't know where to start. There's one character (the clown - who actually was my favourite character) who does literally nothing throughout the entire game. Honestly, thinking back, I reckon I could finish the entire game without ever controlling them. Unless I need him to eat a hotdog... if that's all he's there for, then that's just stupid game design. It felt great being back to a classic point and click game, but the developers had a great story, and I was making guesses, excited about the possibilities... but I was thrown sideways when the curtain was lifted. The game also allows you to finish it without finishing everyone's stories. Imagine playing Day of the Tentacle, getting Bernard back to the present and the game ending before you manage to get the other 2 home. That's how this felt. What game designer does that???

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Posted on: April 2, 2017

sturmi539

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Spiele: 172 Rezensionen: 1

Solid game

Finished the game in "Easy" Mode after about eight hours of game time at 4 AM, still playing on "Hard" mode. Excellent voice acting, beautiful artwork, good puzzles. Switching between and coordinating characters keeps you moving even if you get stuck with a single character for the moment. The "easy" mode is a bit too straightforward at times, makes some screens quite pointless and even omits a few whole screens from the story line. The "hard" mode requires a lot of thinking. The engine is capable of effects like moving grass or even tilting screens, but this is only used in very few screens. Also there are no "huge" animated cutscenes. Some screens are so tidy, they have a somewhat "clinical" look to me. Looking at the credits I'm surprised that so few people could pull off a game of this magnitude! Still laughing about all the books and phone numbers. I didn't give the fifth star because the story didn't really captivate me, and the humor in the story itself could not make up for it. The connection between the five actors is not always really clear and they are not even always introduced to each other, for example it is not really clear to me why Ransome the Clown readily cooperates with the others, and sometimes you have to give an item to a character who doesn't expect to receive it. There are some open questions in the story, and towards the end it goes a bit too much onto a "meta level" and the questions are explained away too easily.

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Posted on: May 5, 2017

Nevrose

Spiele: 405 Rezensionen: 3

One of the best Pixel Art experience

The tone is great. The dialogs are Monkey Island fun. Beautiful art. Appealing mysteries. Deep mood. And I had so many laugh ! Do not fear the verb system : this adventure is easy. And, with some assumed copyright safe renaming, you'll find this is the third part of Maniac Mansion and Day of the Tentacle you did not know you were waiting for !

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