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Posted March 30, 2017
A night to remember.

<span class="bold">Thimbleweed Park</span>, a delightfully surreal point & click adventure by the creators of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion, is now available, DRM-free on GOG.com!

This murder, it really ties the town together, man. A town already haunted by dark secrets and built on sins. Now five eccentric individuals will start poking around, each for their own reasons. Little do they know that they've become the unwitting catalysts for a fateful night full of bizarre events, brain-twisting puzzles, and weaponised sarcasm.

For some additional insight, check out <span class="bold">our interview with Ron Gilbert</span>, the mind behind Thimbleweed Park and a few other classics you may have heard of.


https://www.youtube.com/embed/gESZ95d5pkU
Post edited March 30, 2017 by maladr0Id
Posted March 31, 2017
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Silverhawk170485: How do you play it through the first time? Easy mode for discovering the story first and on the second run change to hard mode only for doing the puzzles not included in easy mode, as the game suggests, or do you start right off on hard mode? It's not possible to change difficulty modes during a playthrough. I'm not really sure what I'm missing when I choose easy mode and I don't know if the additional puzzles are worth a second playthrough, when you already know the story.
I chose hard mode, as I'm unlikely to replay the same story just for a few puzzles to get more complicated than before, and the way I see it, "hard" mode is actually the default, normal difficulty mode if you want to get the full traditional point-and-click adventure experience, and easy mode is a casual, abridged version for those that aren't accustomed to the genre or don't have patience for puzzles anymore. Judging from a similar distinction in Monkey Island 2, I assume what you'd be missing would be something like the acquisition of a specific item requiring two or three steps instead of one - maybe not interesting enough for a second playthrough, but wouldn't it feel cheap to always get what you want right away instead of having to think of ways to get it yourself when a character refuses to give it to you for free?
Post edited March 31, 2017 by Leroux
Posted March 31, 2017
Ron Gilbert is late to the party, <span class="bold">Kathy Rain</span> already does Thimbleweed Park ten times (or more) better than Thimbleweed Park itself.
Post edited March 31, 2017 by groze
Posted March 31, 2017
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groze: Ron Gilbert is late to the party, <span class="bold">Kathy Rain</span> already does Thimbleweed Park ten times (or more) better than Thimbleweed Park itself.
They are both to expensive. I will wait for a sale. They look interesting though.
Post edited March 31, 2017 by jrich3500
Posted March 31, 2017
An interesting post by Ron Gilbert about budgeting:

The Mysterious World of Game Budgets

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And Bandcamp has the Soundtrack now :

Thimbleweed Park (Original Soundtrack)

I hope GOG will sell it too.
Post edited March 31, 2017 by gixgox
Posted March 31, 2017
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Silverhawk170485: How do you play it through the first time? Easy mode for discovering the story first and on the second run change to hard mode only for doing the puzzles not included in easy mode, as the game suggests, or do you start right off on hard mode?
There was only one [adventure] game [I remember] that tried this route before, Monkey Island 2, and I tell you that playing the easy mode was useless.

I will buy this one of course, as I bought Kathy Rain. A labour of love of this calibre can only deserve this small investment.
Post edited March 31, 2017 by Risingson
Posted March 31, 2017
A truly amazing game! LOVE all the references! ( :

So much P&C adventuring goodness.

Just wish they would add the soundtrack here, as well.
It's a nuisance having the game here, and the soundtrack on a completely different site.
Posted March 31, 2017
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groze: Ron Gilbert is late to the party, <span class="bold">Kathy Rain</span> already does Thimbleweed Park ten times (or more) better than Thimbleweed Park itself.
After having played Thimbleweed Park about an hour or so and already finished Kathy Rain a long time ago I would disagree here. Kathy Rain mostly is and fells like a drama while Thimbleweed Park is light hearted with many references to old school adventures (just saying "chainsaw" here).
Post edited March 31, 2017 by MarkoH01
Posted March 31, 2017
I'm diggin'.... diggin'.... diggin'... this game.
Posted April 01, 2017
Chart topper!
https://twitter.com/smnnsdmlck/status/847941812593602562
Posted April 01, 2017
The game looks great! And the price is quite reasonable. :)

We could be witnessing the birth of a classic.
Posted April 01, 2017
Quite a bummer though that the GOG release of Thimbleweed Park was censored. :(
Posted April 02, 2017
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Leroux: Quite a bummer though that the GOG release of Thimbleweed Park was censored. :(
To what extent?
Posted April 02, 2017
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Leroux: Quite a bummer though that the GOG release of Thimbleweed Park was censored. :(
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mk47at: To what extent?
Don't take any posts seriously today! There is a character in the game who's constantly swearing, and most of the swearwords are deliberately *beeped* over for comical effect. ;)

I'm only half-joking though, the constant beeping does sound kind of lame compared to what the actual cursing would sound like. ;P
Posted April 02, 2017
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Leroux: …
I think the beeping gets a bit annoying. Sometimes there is only one word left in a sentence.

I've finished the game. You got my hope up that the ending of the GOG version was censored…
Posted April 02, 2017
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Leroux: …
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mk47at: I think the beeping gets a bit annoying. Sometimes there is only one word left in a sentence.

I've finished the game. You got my hope up that the ending of the GOG version was censored…
Yeah, sorry, April's Fool and all that ... But you have my respect for finishing the game since I'm hopelessly stuck at the moment. ;)
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