Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure

First of all, this is an engine demo for new Monkey Island, it requires Windows 10 and DirectX 12 (so a not very old PC). You can get it on Steam for Linux too but in the end I think it will require similarly not-old hardware. Second of all, I take it as a sorry for the tedious ending in Thimbleweed Park. Much more fun, thank you. Now, regarding the game itself. A few puzzles that are a bit out there and ties heavily to the Thimbleweed Park with some of them, possible spoilers. It was not bad and for the price it's a nice bonus.

Tedious

As far as the prototype, seems like a clean engine. I’m glad you could disable the hotspot chime because good God was that annoying. I’m hoping that was just for the developers to track bugs and that it doesn’t end up in any game… ever. But this demo-let also just reminded me how disappointed in Thimbleweed park I was. Unlike Monkey Island 2 when I yearned to explore Melee island when I rode the elevator up (but wasn’t allowed to) I had very little desire to re-explore this setting. Oh look, I'm playing as the boring programmer girl. Oh hey forgettable diner lady! Oh my god, its the less interesting fortune teller woman! Aside from the music, there’s nothing really memorable about the game. I know its free so, whatever, play it. Just know that it won’t be that fun, and you’ll only make yourself a few minutes closer to death after do so.

though it is a basic promis of this, there is no supernatural stuff happening. There are 30 miniquests thrown at you, and NONE deals with the basic premis. I can fogive not clearing what's happening, or that the randomizer puts the family back to the streets so the game can happen, I could overlook even the 1 or 2 moonlogic quest (especialy the one involving the out-of-battery gizmo), but the flipping reality is not adressed, and you have to suffer the clock-shop-or-whatever owner every single time. Oh, and I have no real clue what's the factor to make the sherif talk to you from the cell. Aside that, it's casual level adventuring, pretty fine, but if this cheats me here on the supernatural, I'm not convinced to buy the core game.

I can play Thimbleweed Park, I can install Dolores, but I can't play it. Please why? That makes no sense!