For Daedalics future hopefully groundbreaking!

The story of Rufus and the garbage planet certify Games Magazine an "amazing depth" and a "cliffhanger ending." Both I think misunderstandings. Deponia is told very well and does not care about details, intervenes bravely in the cliché box and is particularly characterized by the sort of narrative insolence of the "Monkey Iceland" has made it very popular. Emotion is produced in particular as a reaction to the lack of scruples of the main character in the player. This works extremely well because Rufus still a trace brute going on as the good old Guybrush. However, his arrogance is sometimes a bit annoying for the player. But he gets it often enough on the lid and is taken seriously by almost anyone. Next sets Deponia course the fabulous backgrounds, nearly bringing the players, the situation of Deponia. That too is an immediate sense induction method, which does not want to take quite a lot of adventure gamers. The narrated details of "Deponia" world, however, are short and concise, and not always the story is told entirely understandable. "Depth" so you need to thoroughly look elsewhere - does Deponia but mostly very good. Trying to really take seriously the adventure would probably not have survived. What the "cliffhanger" is concerned, I do not want to reveal too much: While the end comes quite abruptly and the sequels are of course already in the starting blocks, but Rufus is a clear, albeit temporary end, which also own through his, conscious action has come about. This may well be regarded as satisfactory conclusion. There is neither an artificial cap on the end of the game, the disjointed provoked a sequel, yet the story is interrupted at any exciting place, in the hope that the players could not help but to continue to buy. Seriously, there have been hundreds of PC games as much duller and more stupid. If even a "not-quite-end", then please just like on Deponia.

The adventure to Rufus offer adventure fare that goes very quickly by hand. A two-frustration places there are quite still, otherwise Daedalic avoids exemplary illogical puzzles, endless repetition of areas, long walking distances and any pixel Hunting. In addition, the inventory-calling is the speed of a Death Star-Standard door is a great thing, which makes almost forget the slowness of the operation of older Daedalic title. The price of freedom is of course a very short Time. Seven to nine hours, you will nibble on "Deponia". Those who have followed the preliminary reporting banished to also faced with the problem that he has seen almost all backgrounds already once. Here has Daedalics Marketing evidently simply given to the press, which has always been drawn finished, and many surprises will no longer exist for the fan. Perhaps we should raise here again a warning finger to tackle it a little quieter in future games. The inside of the cardboard box-Deponia reveals a screenshot presenting the solution for two of the puzzles. The real must not be yet.

A bit disappointed one must be from the interaction with the objects also. Where a the erupting "Edna" for practically every action served an appropriate comment, but Rufus has fallen fairly uncommunicative. In combination trials that do not work, he can often only its standard "reputation" comment for each individual inventory item from the stack, which is on the one hand and on the other hand confusing boring. As Rufus is set to music very appealing by Monty Arnold, that's doubly unfortunate. One would have the good Monty does not have the same five roles impress. The animations are repeated quite often, but see it from quite fantastic. Already Rufus' energetic suitcases Close to start is an outstanding success and leaves you wanting more. At the end of the game the graphic is a bit the (time?) Assumed breath.

The technique is still far from perfect here. But significantly better than the "Whispered World" or "A New Beginning", two games, with whom I was enormously but at loggerheads. On my machine, occasional crashes have occurred in Deponia, and seem to occur with others implying also frequent. This problem, the developers seem to be been well aware: In order to keep the crash frustration factor low, Deponia automatically saves at each screen change, crashes "clean" on the desktop and can be started immediately. This is of course still a visible crutch, but - also due to the lack of copy protection - an amazingly functional. So the right direction at Daedalic and Deponia in all areas, which is why it only "thumbs up" can mean from me.