You can also call random phone numbers and hear recorded voicemail messages from backers, many of which are just as silly.īut I did say this is a LucasArts game through-and-through, right? With that comes some baggage I’m not quite as excited about. There’s an entire library full of backer-written “books,” like Demonology for Dummies, Eating Peanuts: A Guide, and Raisin Based Economy. It also, for the record, has the best backer-produced content I’ve seen in a game. It’s one of the most creative point-and-clicks I’ve played in years, despite the fact it’s emulating adventure games you played 20-odd years ago. Best to just say the game is full of unique characters and situations, many of which I’m still quietly laughing about as I write this review. I don’t want to dwell too much on the writing because, well, the writing is why you’re here. Franklin in particular is underutilized, I think.īut it’s wonderful overall. Worse still, some of the town’s stories just flat-out end, with no real resolution. Events are more constrained, dialogues more limited, with fewer new locations and discoveries compared to the almost-overwhelming front half. ![]() Not all the various story threads are given their due-I feel like you can see the team running up against budget limitations, especially in the latter half of the game. Comedy in games is difficult, and the old LucasArts games are still in many ways a high-water mark. Delores’s constant cracks about game development and adventure game design are particularly solid, but Agent Ray’s cynicism and some of Ransome’s dumb swear-filled insults also elicited laughs. It’s ambitious- Maniac Mansion, but with a modern spin. Well, except one of them ends words with “a-who” and the other with “a-reno.”Īnd before you know it you’ve been swept up into a town-wide conspiracy, with five playable characters-the two agents, wannabe-game-developer Delores, Ransome the Insult Clown, and Franklin. Then you meet the Pigeon Bros., who are actually sisters, and who lecture at length about “The Signals.” Next it’s the sheriff and the coroner, who seem like they’re…actually the same person. There’s also a lot of trope mocking-“The body is starting to pixelate,” “Sounds like someone in the sewer is playing the violin,” and even a self-referential joke about the game being in 2D. ![]() There’s a definite Twin Peaks vibe to the proceedings, everything given that “Not Quite As It Seems” vibe. It starts small, with two federal agents ( or are they?) arriving in the titular town of Thimbleweed Park to investigate a murder. There’s a lot of it, and it is consistently excellent. The rest of the fun comes from Thimbleweed Park‘s writing.
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