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Deponia characters5/2/2023 ![]() There’s a section in Chaos on Deponia where a quartet of platypus eggs must be found, acquired and hatched. It has to be said that, in light of the challenging problems, eventually solving them does feel rather glorious – even more so when you’ve spent upwards of an hour working on the necessary components. It’sįortunate that more often than not, asking NPCs will provide a bit of direction,īut only after a hefty amount of dialogue and aimless wandering. Out of the box that there will be moments where you’ll be begging for a hint. To ingenious uses of junk, the thought process required for succeeding is so That you wouldn’t usually expect to need. Even something as simpleĪs making a coffee or fashioning a weapon is convoluted sending you back andįorth through various locations to obtain the most obscure ingredients/parts Problems you’ll help Rufus overcome not solved easily. It reminds me of The Inner World series in the way it handles, as well as in regards the mostly seamless transitions between places.ĭon’t expect a walk in the park though, with many of the Cycling through the many points of interaction nearby is easy enough to do, with either of the bumpers doing the job nicely. Items can be picked up to put in an inventory, looked at more closely, used with an object or person within an area, and combined with each other to make some fancy thingamajigs. When it comes down to gameplay, it’s essentially your typical point-and-click experience, seeing you move Rufus around 2.5D environments to interact with everything and anything. It being low-brow and silly, but the eccentric personalities are just as Humour is at the core of the entireĮxperience – usually at the expense of our bumbling protagonist – with most of ![]() Singing in the shower and even Rufus’ irresponsible father all coming together Resistance members, Organon officers, a ‘ghost’ with a fetish for people Aside from the ever-present Goal, there’s the no-nonsense former girlfriend Toni who frequently rips him to shreds verbally an old chap, Doc, who is a dab hand at fixing stuff Gizmo who multi-tasks as the town’s fireman, doctor and policeman and McChronicle, an expert in the field of temporal physics.Īnd that’s barely scratching the surface, with sneaky As a result, there are a lot of quirky and interesting characters for Rufus to interact with along the way. The cutscenes, although often exciting, aren’t used regularly enough as a tool to further the story, so instead you’re more likely to unravel the tale through the dialogue, which is brilliantly voiced to ensure the characters feel unique. There’s no doubt you’ll be very welcoming of this last hurrah. What the final instalment, Deponia Doomsday, does is provide an alternate scenario of the happenings that injects a whole load of sci-fi antics into proceedings, involving time travel and a weird species of creatures known as Fewlocks. ![]() Daedalic initially planned for a trilogy you see, so these three games stretch out that narrative across many, many hours – and it is a bit of a stretch. The original three offerings in the series follow Rufus’ efforts to help Goal regain her normal functions, while convincing her that he means well and that the dreaded Organon, a militant organisation from whom he saves her from, are up to no good.
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