One year ago Thimbleweed Park was released by the magnificent @RonGilbert and his fantastic team. Until now, there was for me not one day, that I didn’t think about it. The signed box is one of the first things I see in the morning, because my game shelf stands next to my bed, and one of the last things I see in the evening. It’s just so wonderful. Not only the game itself, but the whole aura and drumherum of it. I like the sound and art and community equally. It makes my heart bounce. Even though I consider myself a gamer, I can not say that I play games often. What I enjoy is to read and think and listen about games.
Thanks to the sale, I finally got the iOS version and am playing the game for the third and fourth time parallel, one on my Mac with the unbeeped Version and one on my phone.
So I wondered, how many times did you finish Thimbleweed Park?
That would be a good poll too. I love the starting scene and the intro. The cool sound the train makes and so on… I don’t know how many times I started it.
Actually I played it 1 and 1/2. I have started another walkthrough but due to the lack of free time I had to abandon it. But I will definitely play it again (at least twice: With the Ransome DLC and in German).
But I’ve played Maniac Mansion as a kid countless times. (And it’s a really interesting phenomenon: While I can replay adventure games several times within a short period, I can re-read a book only after a much longer time.)
I can count on one hand the times I have done that (I really don´t want to most of the time because I don´t the images that I had in my head when reading the first time to change).
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas I read twice with a gap of maybe 8 years in between. Stephen King´s Night Shift short story collection I read twice and at the moment I´m reading Lord Of The Rings for the first time in almost 20 years but also because I got the one volume english version now, so it really is a bit like reading it for the first time again.
Yes, I also did that only for some few books. But on the other hand, I don’t want to replay some adventures too. (For example I’m not sure if I would like to replay Future Wars or Operation Stealth…)
I re-read countless times only one book, and that is Detektiv Pinky. As a child I returned it to the library only to borrow it again at the same time. The same with some movies. The Blues Brothers for instance, I watched dozens of times.
Games not so much as I mentioned in the first post. For me it is more the whole world around it. Reading and listening about it. Looking at screenshots. Remembering the first (and only) play through.
It was a bit weird when I played Maniac Mansion that I was like “hey, I just solved this puzzle in Thimbleweed Park!” But I think it’s supposed to be a self-contained puzzle for newer players and a nod to players who experienced the old games. If I’d played Maniac Mansion then the most difficult puzzle of Thimbleweed Park would’ve been a lot simpler, I suppose.
As a non-American, I was convinced I had to find a post office or mailbox.
my daughter loves to play the intro.
I have started another walkthrough but due to the lack of free time I had to abandon it. But I will definitely play it again (at least twice: With the Ransome DLC and in German).
(For example I’m not sure if I would like to replay Future Wars or Operation Stealth…)