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eh...I bought and played Thimbleweed. It's cute. The artwork is really pretty. The characters are funny. The music is fun and I do enjoy the soundtrack. The st
by djsumdog 9y ago
eh...I bought and played Thimbleweed. It's cute. The artwork is really pretty. The characters are funny. The music is fun and I do enjoy the soundtrack.
The story .. I'm not going to spoil it for anyone. You should play it if you're a fan of old sucmmVM/sierra games. They poke fun at the whole genre. It's pretty cute and I was really into it at first. But it devolves into a weird meta/introspective thing and I felt the writing to a bit lazy.
Telltale has really helped bridge the adventure game into the modern era. I feel like Thimbleweed was a step back.
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- unixhero 9y agoA much needed step back!
- reboog711 9y agoTelltale has morphed into "Choose Your Own Adventure" style stories. Very well executed, but they feel less like games to me than something like Thimbleweed Park.
- TremendousJudge 9y agoI feel the best example of an 'adventure game of the modern era' is Broken Age (by Tim Schafer with Doublefine). It's a very modern take on the whole genre, and not a 'choose your own adventure' type of thing
- djsumdog 9y agoI really loved the first half of Broken Age and felt let down by the second. The puzzles were the perfect difficulty in the first, the artwork was amazing, the characters captivating. The second half didn't have very many new locations, the puzzles turned insanely hard and the story made no sense at all with super weird and nonsensical reveals. It's sad because the art, music and production value were way up there. Still glad I bought it.