There have been a lot of games looking to capitalize on nostalgia lately, but Thimbleweed Park is one of the few titles that has actually pulled it off really well. The game recaptures a lot of the same humor and cleverness found in classic games like The Secret of Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle, with plenty of meta in-jokes and references to those games as well (which had plenty of meta jokes themselves). The actual gameplay is standard adventure game fare, and for the most part, the puzzles are well designed and generally are not too ridiculous. There are no "wash a car to make it rain" puzzles that I can remember. Without spoiling anything, my one major complaint about the game is its rather abrupt ending, which left me feeling unsatisfied once the game was over. The overall story had great build up and plenty of interesting characters, but I found the ending to be a bit anticlimactic and rushed. If the ending had been more satisfying, this would have been a definite 5/5 for me. That said, I would still highly recommend this game to anyone who had been a fan of the old point-and-click adventure games.
