I agree with most of the contents about TWP. Somewhere here I said there is a urbanistic consistence in the shape of the town and surroundings. I mean: as a fictional world (some buildings are comically tall as the bookshop, sewers so high and explorable for such a little town…) once you believe the fiction, it works well. Sewers are coherent with roads that are up, the vista is consistent, and so is the bridge background and so on… On a gameplay point of view, they work well, the allow you to know your way and navigate.
The Quickie Pal inside is incoherent with the outside, instead. Simply there isn’t enough room for Bernard and his counter looking at the facade… wait a moment, he’s bi-dimensional, that’s why!
At beginning of December the list of 45 minus one cities/games was revealed. I thought there may be interest which adventure game related cities made the cut.
A couple are action or RPG oriented, but they should all qualify as adventure games. Here is the list of cities from oldest to newest game release (I leave out the name of the game in case you want to guess):
Rockvil (1985) A Mind Forever Voyaging
Dun Darach (1985) Dun Darach (1985)
Terrapolis (1989) B.A.T.
Lizard Breath (1989) It Came From The Desert
Woodtick (1991) Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge
New Orleans (1993) Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
Union City (1994) Beneath a Steel Sky
Rubacava (1998) Grim Fandango
Silent Hill (1999) Silent Hill (duh!)
Wan Chai (2001) Shenmue II
London (2009) Fallen London
Propast, Europolis (2014) Dreamfall Chapters
Anytown (2018) 0°N 0°W
New Bretagne (2018) Lamplight City
Update 2019-02-22: We now have the 45th city and it also belongs into this list!
Update 2022-02-11: Added video game information.
I don’t know those other games then. Rockvil, Terrapolis, and Rubacava sound game-title-y, the rest less so.
I know Woodtick (MI2), I imagine I know what New Orleans means here (GK), but I have no idea which particular game London would be referring to (Fallen London being my guess). With Wan Chai I can’t think of a sufficiently relevant game. Propast is also very clear (Dreamfall: Chapters).