Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick took us back to the golden age of SCUMM graphic adventures with "Thimbleweed Park". The game is littered with easter eggs and references to "Maniac Mansion", and despite the thirty-year gap, there's hardly been any technical innovation. The game is as clunky as its predecessors, but it also shares the same wacky tongue-in-cheek humor and crazy puzzles that made LucasArts adventures unique.
The gameplay dynamics are essentially the same as "Maniac Mansion": the player can switch between multiple characters and pass items over to solve puzzles and access locations that are sometimes restricted to a particular character. It all starts as some kind of "X Files" and "Twin Peaks" parody, but as the plot unfolds, fourth wall breaking becomes increasingly intrusive until it starts to feel like a whole different game. The direction they took in the late chapters is indeed compelling, but I have to say that this time I was looking forward to just solving cases and busting suspects in a more traditional way. It's also weird that unrelated characters suddenly start to collaborate without an apparent reason. A couple of dialogues in between would have definitely solved the problem, though.
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top notch writing in this one, this feels like it could have been the next game Ron Gilbert would have made if he stayed at Lucas Arts after Monkey Island 1 and 2.
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