![]() It gets very uncomfortable to keep playing as he continues to destroy people’s lives wherever he goes, uncaring of anything but his own interests. To play as Rufus is to pretend you’re a sociopath. Rufus is as he’s always been, a completely unforgivable and unlikeable monster. Your audience will go “meh.” At least I did. You should’ve stayed dead!Īlso, if you have a character sacrifice himself at the end of the previous game, bringing them back completely invalidates the sacrifice and the emotional investment the audience has in him, so when he makes the same choice again, it has no impact, no soul. The new characters coming into the game have the barest of characterisations, once again a collection of stereotypes and bland mannequins whose only purpose is to be Rufus’ victims. There are no new lessons to learn, no growth left. The last sequence, which includes an escape from a Pink elephant (won’t spoil that one), is appallingly bad.īut perhaps, Deponia Doomsday’s worst sin is that the plot is pointless, as it doesn’t lead the characters anywhere new. The first time this happens, it’s infuriating, and it doesn’t get any better. And this means watching the same cutscenes, the same conversations, picking items all over again and then trying to figure out the solution. It’s made even worse by the fact that the game plays out as a Groundhog Day scenario, where days and sequences repeat without end until you find the right actions to move ahead. ![]() Instead, we have a time travel story, with multiple timelines and paradoxes that don’t make much sense at the start and just become progressively more convoluted. Was this before Deponia 1 or did that game even happen? The button mashing…god…Īt first, I groaned at the “everything was a dream” approach, as I believed they were copping out of the past three games by sweeping it all under the rug. But the house he wakes up at isn’t he one we knew during Deponia 1, nor does the town look even remotely as it did back then, making me confused about what point in time he was in. Then comes Deponia Doomsday and we once again control Rufus, but now waking up from what he thinks is a very convoluted nightmare. It was a moment of selflessness for a character that is otherwise a complete monster, using people as playthings and tools to get what he wants. But no, there a new entry in the series and its name is quite fitting: Deponia Doomsday.Īt the end of Goodbye Deponia, Rufus sacrifices himself so that Goal and Cletus could make it to Elysium and convince the high council that there were people living on the surface, cancelling the plan to use thermonuclear explosives to destroy the planet and propel their city into space. You thought Deponia had ended, right? You said Goodbye to it, me too.
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