“Whenever I see coverage for the game, the opening paragraph always has the words ‘a throwback adventure game’, and it always makes me kind of bristle. That's not really what this is." Wait. Oops. I’ve just done it again. Ah well, Ron Gilbert – father of the modern adventure game and Thimbleweed Park co-creator – seems to love a meta reference, so I hope he’ll forgive me that one.
He has a point, though. Everything you’ve read about Thimbleweed Park so far has probably led you to believe it’s entirely backward-looking. Its Maniac Mansion looks, its Twin Peaks small-town mystery story, its verb sheet-encrusted UI - all of these are the hallmarks of a nostalgia project, kicking back against the Telltale trend in adventure gaming. That’s not entirely wrong, but it’s absolutely not the whole story.
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He has a point, though. Everything you’ve read about Thimbleweed Park so far has probably led you to believe it’s entirely backward-looking. Its Maniac Mansion looks, its Twin Peaks small-town mystery story, its verb sheet-encrusted UI - all of these are the hallmarks of a nostalgia project, kicking back against the Telltale trend in adventure gaming. That’s not entirely wrong, but it’s absolutely not the whole story.
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