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Thimbleweed Park is a retro-style Point & Click, which has been available on PC since a few months. Now it has also been released for PS4. It has been developed by the same guys who also made Maniac Mansion and The Secret of Monkey Island. The game is made in pixel-art and looks really nice. Also, the music and sound effects are retro, which reminded me of the times when I played Point & Clicks on my PC in the early ‘90s.
The game takes place in 1987 and starts with a murder and you take over control of FBI Agents Ray and Reyes. Your task is to identify the murder. As you progress through the story you unlock 3 more character: Ransome the Clown, Delores Edmund, and Franklin Edmund the Ghost. They all have their own backstory and their own goals but you need to work together to solve all the puzzles.
There are 2 different difficulties (casual and hard). Once you’ve chosen your difficulty you can’t change it anymore until the end of the game. Casual is very simple. Some of the puzzles have been simplified, while others don’t even exist. On hard mode, you’ll see that some items are on different places and that there are more locations you must explore. You’ll get a trophy for completing the game on easy and another one for completing the game on hard. Unfortunately, those trophies don’t stack, which means you must play through the game twice.
Speaking of trophies, it’s not done with playing through the game twice. There are also a few miscellaneous trophies you must keep an eye on. The most annoying is for sure “No One Is Home”. To unlock this trophy, you need to call 100 different people and listen to their voice mails. This will take about 30 boring minutes.
You also need pick up 75 so-called specks of dust. These are the collectibles in the game. The problem is that they don’t have any fixed placed – they appear random. Worry not, there’s a very easy trick to get them within 5 minutes. Just play until you encounter one of those specks and save your game. Now pick up the speck and reload your old save. Do this until you’ve picked up 75 of them.
If you’re playing the game for the first time, you’ll need for sure 10 hours to unlock the Platinum Trophy. I needed 6 hours alone for the hard playthrough on the EU version, in which I was also going for all the random trophies. On the NA version, I was much faster. I needed only 5 hours (including a few breaks) to unlock the Platinum Trophy.
If you like Point & Clicks, you’ll definitively love this game. Especially if you’ve played some of the classics. This game is full of references to those old games. Unfortunately, it’s quite expensive (19.99€ or 19.99$). It might be best to wait until it’s on sale.
Here’s a spoiler free guide or you can also follow the walkthrough provided by IBadDriverI.
Thimbleweed Park is a retro-style Point & Click, which has been available on PC since a few months. Now it has also been released for PS4. It has been developed by the same guys who also made Maniac Mansion and The Secret of Monkey Island. The game is made in pixel-art and looks really nice. Also, the music and sound effects are retro, which reminded me of the times when I played Point & Clicks on my PC in the early ‘90s.
The game takes place in 1987 and starts with a murder and you take over control of FBI Agents Ray and Reyes. Your task is to identify the murder. As you progress through the story you unlock 3 more character: Ransome the Clown, Delores Edmund, and Franklin Edmund the Ghost. They all have their own backstory and their own goals but you need to work together to solve all the puzzles.
There are 2 different difficulties (casual and hard). Once you’ve chosen your difficulty you can’t change it anymore until the end of the game. Casual is very simple. Some of the puzzles have been simplified, while others don’t even exist. On hard mode, you’ll see that some items are on different places and that there are more locations you must explore. You’ll get a trophy for completing the game on easy and another one for completing the game on hard. Unfortunately, those trophies don’t stack, which means you must play through the game twice.
Speaking of trophies, it’s not done with playing through the game twice. There are also a few miscellaneous trophies you must keep an eye on. The most annoying is for sure “No One Is Home”. To unlock this trophy, you need to call 100 different people and listen to their voice mails. This will take about 30 boring minutes.
You also need pick up 75 so-called specks of dust. These are the collectibles in the game. The problem is that they don’t have any fixed placed – they appear random. Worry not, there’s a very easy trick to get them within 5 minutes. Just play until you encounter one of those specks and save your game. Now pick up the speck and reload your old save. Do this until you’ve picked up 75 of them.
If you’re playing the game for the first time, you’ll need for sure 10 hours to unlock the Platinum Trophy. I needed 6 hours alone for the hard playthrough on the EU version, in which I was also going for all the random trophies. On the NA version, I was much faster. I needed only 5 hours (including a few breaks) to unlock the Platinum Trophy.
If you like Point & Clicks, you’ll definitively love this game. Especially if you’ve played some of the classics. This game is full of references to those old games. Unfortunately, it’s quite expensive (19.99€ or 19.99$). It might be best to wait until it’s on sale.
Here’s a spoiler free guide or you can also follow the walkthrough provided by IBadDriverI.
And here's the speck of dust exploit:
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