Longplay a Indie | Slender Threads (2025) Moon Logic Jar of Tang that wanted to be Monkey Island 2
6This is such a "jar of Tang" story
"An entire pointless story contrived so the writer can cry "Fooled you!" For instance, the story takes place in a desert of coarse orange sand surrounded by an impenetrable vitrine barrier; surprise! our heroes are microbes in a jar of Tang powdered orange drink."--Turkey City Lexicon
In other words the dev created a Monkey Island 2 ... the game has the same comedy and same dialog flow ... with the same twist... made up pointless jump on nostalgia with a kick in the balls "SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKER!!!"... Monkey Island 2 became known as the game that hated its Success so hard it sabotaged itself... A product you ignore if you want to make other games flow in the IP... then the original creator did the same with the 2022 "Return to Monkey Island" ... that did 1:1 the same trick , just to piss off the IP fans so hard ... to create a fall out to kill the IP ... what was that trick : The game looks like shit , since its a Dad reading a diorama book to his kid in a lunapark ... playing fiddle on fans noses ...
For those Questioning why Ron did this Monkey Island 2 Twist ... Ron in 1992 exited the company to create him own Humongous Entertainment (known for Gilberts Puttputt,Spyfox,Freddi Fish,Pajama Sam,BackYard Sports ... aka Kids Adventure games ... with "Moop and Dreadly in the Treasure on Bing Bong Island") ... in other words it was a Exit Scam to kill a IP to not be its golden Goose ... but it failed so hard , the continuations ignore this game ...
If you dwell deeper into it , its kinda funny ... he exited Lucas Arts to not be Typecast-ed into making sequels for the IP that was a massive success milking it forever ... to open a company that created ip's that where MILKED THE FUCKING DRY with Sequels and Arcade games ... so hard they died , hahahahahahaha... the Irony
So ,is Slender Treads good ... The question here is : Do you like Tang ... a game that wanted to be like Monkey Island 2, copying beat by beat its Exit Scam ... not getting it was a Exit Scam to kill a IP ... Same way, like Techland did to Dead Island with Riptide... when the Producers Stole theirs IP ... So what about the meat , its puzzles ...they used moon logic, to stuff it with padding... The problem here is , you don't need padding ... like a book does not need 150 pages long sudden exposition how all buy mediocre paintings to fill up space ... 150 pages to make a point: How mediocre books add "mediocre" talks about nothing, just to fill space (lulz)... to make this book 650 pages long ... but a good story flow, that would make the hours you wasted on it ... don't feel like wasted ... and a ending that respects your time, and effort you put into it ... then play on your nose like a fiddle, to show your a easily fooled deuce
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