Got GF Thimbleweed Park to get her opinion on it, didn't tell her a thing about it, she loved it all the way up until the factory. I've never seen her get so made at a game ending. Compounding her rage was the Dev's interviews who claimed, "The murders didn't matter," and they did that bizarre meta ending that made the first 3/4ths of the game pointless and left nearly every plot thread unresolved. She then went in and mapped out various unused items that involved puzzels ot obtain, etc. Read dev blogs and came to the conclusion that they either became creatively bankrupt at the end or ran out of money. They took out too many puzzles (shown in the KS video and elsewhere) that their own preview videos showed, but didn't remove the items involved. It's obvious what those items were meant to be used for, the security VCR + Beta Tape after using the bear mace to trigger the sprinkler system and get the quickie mart to empty, obviously you'd be able to see the tape then and to get the tape took like 8 puzzle steps too. Plus once you know the sewer contains evidence, you can no longer get there. She has a theory as to what happened in the actual game part's plot, but she's guessing either they couldn't finish the game in a way that felt satisfying so they tacked this bullshit in. Or they built 90% of the game in their OG artwork, and then when they decided to do a facelift, didn't have the budget to do EVERYTHING and thus trimmed corners. The game did have an art do-over 3/4ths of the way through development... The lead writers claim that this was how it was meant to be, doesn't ring true. The fat he said the murders don't matter, just made her seeth with rage. Judging by the forums, she is not alone and the dev is very very defensive about this. I think he was just caught with his pants down and is embarrassed personally. Thimbleweed Park great game for the first 3/4ths, HUGE disappointing ending. I agree with her conclusion.
