💬 Review " Thimbleweed Park" by Ron Gilbert & Gary Winnick

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Thimbleweed Park is a point and click adventure game developed by Ron Gilbert & Gary Winnick for Microsoft Windows, macOS, iOS, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, and Nintendo Switch.

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" Thimbleweed Park " is spiritual successor to Ron gilbert and Gary winnick previous game the " Maniac Mansion "(1987) and " The Secret of Monkey Island " (1990) which a very successful game on point and click adventure game on its genre.

The game graphic is similarly to the classic adventure point and click games which is a retro 2d side scrolling pixelated game, it can also be seen on a third person perspective of the game with a view of the area taking up the majority of the screen.

While the bottom portion is taken up by the player's inventory and a list of verbs, such as "use", "pick up", and "talk to". By clicking on a verb followed by one or two items or characters, the player character will attempt to perform the action described.
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The game has five character's to control similar to Maniac mansion which can switch in the middle of gameplay in order to progresses the puzzle in each scenario or location.

Playable characters:
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Boris Schultz: An enigmatic figure that appears only in the beginning of the game. He follows some instructions in order to meet with a person, and he is killed. He remains as a dead body for the remainder of the game. His murder prompts the arrival of Agents Ray and Reyes.

Special Agent Angela Ray (Nicole Oliver): A Fed investigating the murder of Schultz. However she follows her own personal agenda, being hired by a Japanese company to steal some special technology from Chuck Edmund's hi-tech Pillow Factory.

Junior Agent Antonio Reyes (Javier Lacroix): A Fed that claims to have been sent to accompany Ray in her investigation. In reality he came to investigate the circumstances of the death of his father in the Pillow Factory 20 years ago, as the official word was that he, a security guard, was responsible for the disaster.

Delores Edmund (Elise Kates): Daughter of Franklin, niece of Chuck Edmund, and a computer geek. He intended for her to inherit his factory and continue his work, but Delores followed her dreams to become a video game programmer. She first appears in a flashback, as her estranged sister suspects her for the murder. She returns to Thimbleweed Park in order to read her uncle's last will and testament and find out what happened to her father. Then she decides to break into the factory in order to understand what affected her uncle's behavior in his final years.

Ransome the Clown (Ian James Corlett): An evil clown who made a career swearing and insulting. At the peak of his career he intended to make a deal with the Pillow Factory to produce a toy line based on his franchise. When his insults went too far, a gypsy woman cursed him to be unable to remove his makeup and lose everything, being forced to haunt the abandoned circus grounds for the next years. He also intends to break into the factory and find out what happened to his toys.

Franklin Edmund (Alex Zahara): Brother to Chuck and father of Delores. He first appears in Delores's flashback, trying to persuade Chuck to repurpose the Factory to produce toys. He is seen again as a playable character preparing for a meeting with foreign investors in a hotel, when he is killed by an unseen person. He reappears as a ghost, haunting the hotel with 3 other ghosts and his goal is to find a way to communicate with Delores before moving to the afterlife.

The story begins when FBI agents Ray and Reyes arrive at the town of Thimbleweed Park to investigate a murder. Their investigation leads them to several persons of interest: Chuck, 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, 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, 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 while researching Artificial Intelligence, he contacted an entity from the real world and realized that they are living inside a video game; everyone in the town is trapped inside it, forced to repeat it. The only way to free themselves is to disable the central computer and delete the game files.

Before that, Chuck aids the group to fulfill their desires: 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.

In a post-credits scene, a Commodore 64 console appears, whose unseen user types commands to restore the deleted files of the game. The game then reboots.

Would you recommend this to other users? Yes i would this is a great point and click adventure game will make you interested on it's story and the town full of nostalgic and wierdos and odd things.

Rating (5-5): ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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