[Teever]

I still haven't played through all of Thimbleweed Park, but I managed to get my GF into adventure games after I bought it for her on Switch and she played through the entire game.

It's a fantastic game, It's basically what I always wanted out of an adventure game when I was a kid, and what's more the touch screen is a perfect interface for adventure games.

It was disheartening when 3D FPS games took over in the late 90s and MS fortified that with advertisements targeting the 'bro' segment for their new Xbox console and Halo franchise.

I was worried that Grim Fandango (still my favourite, omg that soundtrack) was the swan song of the genre but I'm so pleased to see that gaming as a whole has exploded and game development is so much more accessible than it used to be so that the genre has found it's niche. I genuinely think that an ipad mini form factor is utterly perfect for the genre so it pleases me that kids of a new generation can explore these neat little story worlds once again.

Also it's good to see that Disney isn't smothering the video game IP that they got when they bought LucasFilm. It seems like this is them testing the waters, and I hope that it is a resounding success that encourages them to do more with that goldmine that is LucasArts.

[bombcar]

Grim Fandango is, to me, the defining example of these games, just exceptionally well done.

Imagine Disney making Coco or Encanto when they're sitting on the Grim Fandango IP. :D

[WorldMaker]

Coco was announced about the same time Disney bought LucasFilm and that was my running joke that the real reason Disney bought LucasFilm wasn't as much to secure Star Wars, but to build a Grim Fandango Cinematic Universe.

[bandibus]

I remember there was lots of buzz about a resurgence of the genre when Double Fine's Broken Age did the crowdfunding thing and raised $millions. A lot of excited people. And then that seemed to go away again when the critical reception to Part 2 of it was pretty contentious? I wonder what it would have sparked if it had been as much a critical and publicity success as the first part...

[Rapzid]

Yeah, cut my teeth on the Sierra adventure games. Didn't hate the FPS takeover Half-Life ushered in, but.. It's almost cliched to say "Modern RPGs don't feel as alive as Ultima VII" and yet.. There is truth to that.

Kinda got stuck in Thimbleweed but honestly hadn't felt so immersed in a game's setting since the old days.