![]() If you mainly care about the gameplay and have already worked your way through various titles on the market, feel free to consider the deponia series it is lengthy and contains some fun puzzles, but don't expect a compelling adventure. I have to conclude that this part gravely disappointed me, and I have no desire to replay it, as I usually would with point-and-click adventures. With the help of McChronicle, a quirky temporal scientist, who discovered strange time-anomalies, Rufus discovers that some time travelers from the future carelessly parked their time machine in his neighborhood. That's just terrible writing for an interactive story, and it's an ongoing issue with the series. Again, ruining everything the player believes to have achieved during the playthrough. Not even mentioning how hopelessly messy the plot becomes, until the sole takeaway seems to be: f- you, no matter how much you try, we decide the canon ending is the right one. These last chapters add nothing gameplay-wise, since it's either time-pressured small puzzles or endless dialogue. By the time the elephant dudes reemerged however, every following scene I just played through hoping it would be over already. Time travel can be a funny element, if cleverly executed, and it certainly was at first. But the moment time travel gets brought up the story devolves into a complete clusterf-uck, similar to the plot entanglement I criticised about the trilogy, but oh so much worse. Had this been the end, I would've rated it positively and might even kept it for replay value. I do think they improved with the puzzles and I progressed pretty easily, enjoying chapters 1-5. The one big problem here is literally half of the game. Apart from that, notable might only be the 'dude with irish accent makes goat innuendo', but I found that subtle enough to still be funny. Hell, there's even a (censored) nude scene for the lols in this spin-off. There wasn't anything as blatantly offensive as in 'Goodbye Deponia', but the mild sexism and- suggestive art style still seeps through. ![]() It feels more like slapping a band-aid on now rather than recognizing the mistakes before ever releasing the games in the first place. They probably tried to appeal to the critiques by using the game to rewrite everything that hadn't quite resonated with the audience. The old Rufus would've hardly ever said 'Sorry'. Sure, they learned from their mistakes a little- there's actually black characters now, can you believe it! Also, I feel like Rufus has been toned down in his snarkiness and appears almost sensitive. Sadly, that wasn't the case, and while I would love to say it made up for it at least in other points, there's nothing stunningly great or exciting about this installment. Deponia Doomsday was the spin-off that sparked some new hope, maybe a chance at redemption for the original trilogy's ending which left many fans disappointed.
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