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Thimbleweed Park

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Post by Heroine of the Dragon » Mon Jun 05, 2023 10:38 pm

Have you played Thimbleweed Park?
What were the most surprising objects you picked up?
Which are your favourite chracaters to play with?
FBI agents Angela Ray and Alberto Reyes arrive at the town of Thimbleweed Park to investigate a murder. Their investigation leads them to several persons of interest: Chuck Edmund, the recently deceased owner of the PillowTronics robotics company; Ransome the Clown, cursed to wear his makeup forever after going too far in his insulting performances; Delores Edmund, computer programmer and niece of Chuck; and Delores's downtrodden father Franklin.

Franklin attempts to pitch his business ideas to Chuck, but is murdered at the town hotel and becomes a ghost. Delores discovers that Chuck has written her out of his will, angered by her choice to pursue a career in video games. Ray and Reyes gather blood samples, fingerprints, and photographic evidence, and arrest vagrant Willie T. Wino, who protests his innocence. They leave town, but return incognito to pursue other agendas: Ray has been tasked with stealing computer secrets, and Reyes wants to clear his father of causing the fire that burnt down the PillowTronics factory.

Ray, Reyes, Delores and Ransome infiltrate the factory. Delores disables the security systems and discovers that Chuck has uploaded his personality into the factory computer. Chuck reveals that everyone in the town is trapped inside a video game that keeps repeating, and that the group must free themselves by deleting the game.

Ransome apologises to the citizens of Thimbleweed Park, clearing his reputation. Franklin says goodbye to his daughter and disappears to the afterlife. In the local paper, Reyes publishes a confession from Chuck clearing his father of blame for the factory fire. Ray steals a game design document from game designer Ron Gilbert and is transferred out of the game by her employers. Delores enters the "wireframe world", a prototype version of Thimbleweed Park with simplistic graphics, and shuts down the computer.
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Re: Thimbleweed Park

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Post by Booyakasha » Sun Jun 18, 2023 4:42 am

I don't think I can overstate how much I respect Ron Gilbert as a creator. He really seems to have that same lunatic energy as Steve Purcell and Tim Schaefer. And Weird Al, come to that.

I personally disliked the ending of 'Monkey Island 2', but, hey, that's how Ron wanted to end the game, and so fine.

I still haven't played a single moment of 'Thimbleweed Park'. I need to get on that. Time is fleeting---------the reaper sharpens his scythe for the harvest.
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Re: Thimbleweed Park

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Post by I REALLY HATE POKEMON! » Sun Jun 18, 2023 11:02 pm

I'm not much for comedy in my detective fiction, but the game seems okay for what it is.

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