Posted on: September 28, 2023
Lalai_sky
验证所有者游戏: 评论: 8
Utterly abysmal story
I despise the story like the one that Thimbleweed Park has. It completely ruined intriguing premise and rather interesting mechanics of switching between several characters to solve some situation. If not for some good puzzles, decent graphics, a lot of quality of life conveniences and some voice acting that doesn't suck it would be 1/5 for me just because of how very bad the story is. Forth wall breaking – "oh, we are inside the game, isn't it strange that the town of 80 has only 1 house and three characters look the same to save on voice actors? Aren't we clever to point it out aloud in the game? Yes we are!" – is incredibly trite, self-congratulatory, cringe cop out where writers cannot come up with writing anything actually good or intricate. The initial mystery is not even solved as in the last third of the game the focus shifts to the above-mentioned 4th-wall-breaking. This kind of scenario was done more or less graciously exactly once (in Monkey Island 2) and never since, yet developers still think they are being clever and novel with this approach. There is no sincerity in this story, no stakes, no weight, no good writing. The only character with any real development is Agent Ray, and only somewhat. Voice actor for sheriff-coroner-whoever is so terribly grating I turned VA off because this is an NPC you run most often into, especially early game. The rest of voices might be good but I'd never know because just a thought of running into this terrible character made me never turn VA back again. If not for the abysmal story, if the writers actually gave us an actual mystery to solve and good story to follow without trying to look smarter than they are, it would be a much better game, but any good puzzles or characters or situations are completely marred by the story it conveys. I regret the time wasted on it.
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