I bought Thimbleweed Park yesterday (after ripping my hair out deciding between it and snake pass for days lol) and so far I'm really liking it and I wanted to quickly post here about it. For those who don't know it plays like a classic point and click adventure days of old. It looks really stellar, especially in motion with great pixel art, parallax effects and lighting. It's on all platforms except PS4 in which I heard it'll come out 3 months later.
At first I was worried about the verb interface, as I grew up on adventure games after this during the Curse of Monkey Island/Broken Sword era. I've gotten used to it, but I do think it's a deterrent for those who are newer to the genre or intimidated with this style and tbh I think they shot themselves in the foot a bit doing this, but power to them wanting to stick to that. I respect that it actually helps you out in the right ways if you are stuck, for example everything is there for you to figure/work out in terms of items/links/clues etc.
Only slight downside so far is some of the humour at the beginning of my playthrough. Meta and fourth-wall breaking jokes are used in the older era point n' clicks but they're used quite tastefully. In this game though, I think they've taken some of it a bit too far with jokes about, I felt like it was getting in the way a bit with the amount they had, their should be a limit y'know?
I'm also glad we can add this to the list of kickstarter successes from a critical reception point of view. It's also the first game I own that you can crossplay with Xbox One/Windows 10, I think that's really cool for this type of game as I like the option of mouse controls. The gamepad is fine though but I think using verbs will infuriate some. I wonder if it'll support the touch pad on PS4? (I heard that thing isn't quite responsive though :/)
What's cool is just hearing about the kickstarter side of it. This game has a phone with a phonebook that you can dial numbers with to hear 700+ recordings from backers and there is an achievement linked to getting them (A quarter of which are in german apparently xD). There's also a library of books that you can read in which around 1500 backers got the chance to submit 2x A4 pages of creative literature. I really like the idea and way that they implemented it, looking forward to seeing them when I reach that point in the game.
Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2017 1:02 pm
