Lucy Dreaming: Look There, a Three-Headed Dream!

When Thimbleweed Park was announced, it made no attempts to hide its intention to hitchhike on the nostalgic feelings adventure gamers have for a pixelated crosshair and the SCUMM verbs. As soon as you start playing Lucy Dreaming, that same familiar feeling will be reawakened. See what I did there, as Lucy has to dream and awaken and dream some more in order to work through puzzle chains? Took it too far? Okay then how about this: Lucy Dreaming is as classic as a classic adventure game can get: pixels check crosshair check; SCUMM-esque action picks check; an unnecessary large amount of references to older games double check. Is this a dream worth having (again) though? After finishing the game, I still can’t fully answer that question. Mechanically speaking, Lucy Dreaming plays it safe and for 99.9% taps into your nostalgia for Monkey et al. If that’s what you’re looking for, you’ll like it, but if you find these to be wrung out sponges, then perhaps not. The Drifter’s developer…