Posted on: April 30, 2018
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Solid but overhyped
Well, Thimbleweed Park is not a bad game, but it's totally overhyped and more like a fangame than something that qualifies for a commercial release in the 21st century. There are lots of minor flaws but the main issue is that it thinks it's much funnier and better designed that it actually is. Indeed, it starts really terribly with one of the worst voice acting performances (the German homicide victim) in history followed by awful dialogs of the Mulder/Scully lookalikes with the Sheriff/Coroner/Hotel Manager (with all that "a-reno" and "a-boo"). This is worsened by the fact that you can't skip dialogs. While the minimalist walking animations somewhat resemble that of the very first LuscasArst adventures (Maniac Mansion/Zak McKracken) they are just ugly and don't fit the pseudo retro style. Plus the characters move much too fast most of the time, so it looks like they are not walking but teleporting. Then there's the issue that the game actually only pretends to be lores, so when your pixelated characters move away from you, their pixels become smaller which totally breaks the retro look. Regarding the puzzle design: admittedly, most of the puzzles are logical to some degree (apart from things like charging the battery which show the typical lack of scientific education) but there are two consistent flaws throughout the game. Firstly, some puzzle solutions simply don't work until a certain point in the story was reached. Secondly, some things only work with certain characters. This can be frustrating as its not always clear that a puzzle can't be solved yet or a different character is needed. Actually there are just too many characters and they wouldn't be needed if the designers hadn't limited certain actions or items to one specific character deliberately. Honestly, I also missed exciting locations (like in Zak McKracken), found the story to be somewhat bland and didn't like the ending. Well, and there are much too few save slots.
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