And unfortunately, most of those came clumped together in the second (and longest) of four acts. Despite translation issues - and there are plenty - the game made me laugh a fair few times, and a number of the puzzles, while in no way original, presented a fair challenge. And as you also might expect, the game is packed with eccentric characters, dozens of objects to steal and use on other objects, and a hefty pile of jokes.Īnd it hits reasonably often. Do that, the story advances, and you repeat. It's an absolutely standard point-and-click affair - gather various inventory items, each hidden behind dialogue and puzzles, to solve a larger problem. Not quite so cutesy and fairytale-themed as the former, and sharing the slightly more aggressive humour of the latter, you play Rufus, a selfish and lazy man determined to find a way off the trash planet of Deponia. From Daedalic, they who brought us the lovely Whispered World, and the not so lovely Edna & Harvey, Deponia falls stylistically somewhere between the two.

However, it's pretty much impossible not to warm to a game that opens with a song. That, and what are now familiar problems with the translation from German. And by the same accounts, has all the same issues that we tend to forget. Deponia, by all accounts, is every bit as good as many of the adventures back in the day. And yet it's so hard not to measure a modern point and click to the near-fictional memory of the past. I know this because I've gone back to play them, and either games can erode over time, or they're mostly not nearly as amazing as I remember (with the exception of those LucasArts few). I know that I misremember the adventures of the 90s. You can't refuse to find out - I promise it won't be a waste of your time.

Set on a planet made of trash, will it prove to be a big pile of rubbish, or a diamond in a dungheap. Deponia is released today - the latest adventure from German developers, Daedalic Entertainment.

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