Question about the game (Spoilers)

[Thalassa]

Who were the killers from the body in the beginning and Frank?

And why did they have to die? Did they endanger the AI or the factory in any way?

[milanfahrnholz]

Their names are Brian and Hazel.

[Someone]

To give a serious answer: These questions aren’t answered in the game. We have discussed your questions in other threads here in the forum. Maybe you would like to read them, for example:

Was Boris killed by... (Spoilers)

Willie? Is it technically possible? It’s simple: Boris goes toward the sewer entrance and Willie just follows him and hits him. The shadow that hits Boris seems to wear a hat and possibly a trench coat, just like Willie. Means: Willie hits Boris with the whisky bottle Motive: Willie kills Boris to get his money (and he does get his money) Opportunity: WIllie and Boris are the only people there, nobody would see Willie committing the murder Is it technically possible that the Murder was hi…

The murderer. (spoilers!)

Argh. Here be spoilers! [spoiler]I never freed the falsely accused guy (for some reason I don’t remember his name now). So. About the murderer. Was it Boris? …and can you get the true murderer in jail? For me I kinda lost interest in the game after the murder was “solved” and the whole game went meta on itself. It wasn’t bad or anything. It just wasn’t the game I bought. I thought it was more a Twin Peaks or X-Files comedy murder mystery kinda thing. But it was just … something else. Never…

[Sushi]

Who knows?
At first I thought it had to be something with the AI protecting itself.
But the finale seems to support a theory that noone is really killed. Rather replaced.
Bottomline is that it has to be weird and remain a bit of a mystery, open for personal interpretation, depending on whether you’re Mulder or Scully when being confronted with the same events.

The fact you’re trying to put a name to the killer and his/her motivation means you are approaching the story like Scully.
Which is fine. But I’m pretty sure the game creators are more like Mulder.

[uriel]

@Thalassa

Who were the killers from the body in the beginning and Frank?

And why did they have to die? Did they endanger the AI or the factory in any way?

As with many many questions waiting for an answer, the answer is probably contained in the secret of monkey islandTM

[Frenzie]

But also in the journal.

[lucadigennaro]

@Someone

For me I kinda lost interest in the game after the murder was “solved” and the whole game went meta on itself

As in Twin Peaks

[Gffp]

@lucadigennaro

@Someone

For me I kinda lost interest in the game after the murder was “solved” and the whole game went meta on itself

As in Twin Peaks

Ciao Luca,

I recently thought it was a clever way to represent how the preoccupation for murders and killers is often just politically driven by those who have the power (see Chuck and his “puppet” the sheriff…) so the real problem is not that there’s is a killer-reno on the loose, but the nature of our actions, and the freedom we could gain just thinking about our actual freedom. Thimbleweed Park is a game that thickles you more on the etic side, than on the emic one, Emic and etic - Wikipedia, it works more on the cerebral side, than on the emotional identification and direct aestetics and enviroenmental evocation. Probably it sacrifices a little too much the second one for the first one, but what it gets in terms of significance in the end makes the result really worth the try.
Probably the passage from the story within the story to the meta-story happens when the story isn’t very well established into the player yet, since the better you build an emotional bond with the user (reader, player, spectator) the better you can shift the story to its meta twist. Anyway the overall result is very good and stalwart. A better emotional adhesion in the first part (the world appears too early as limited and false as the further evolution of the story requires) would have even increased the overall good result, better satisfying all the audiences and multiple levels of expression. But also probably not, I don’t have enough experience to tell. What I know is that the game succeeds in accomplishing its final goal, to stimulate reflection through intrerpretation for other things that are not the game itself and belong to our world and our experience of it. WATE (what a terrible English, as usual).