![]() ![]() ![]() In the first game, he's just a lazy grifter. You're surrounded by garbage, heavy, sharp, easily movable garbage, you even have heavy garbage in your inventory, but no, the *only* way to break open the dead car is melting the lock with a concoction. The puzzle that killed it for me was breaking into the car. The puzzle that clued me into this being crap was the demolition puzzle where the location of the bombs is hinted by the hats of the demomen matching a vague silhouette of their homes. This could've been a halfway decent Mad-Max meets Monkey Island, or God-forbid something more thoughtful. The game's humor and theming have more in common with Ctrl+Alt+Del than anything meaningfully sci-fi. The setting had great potential that they butchered conpletely. Since Rufus's bit is that he's a lazy grifter, everyone treats him (and by extension the player) as a lazy grifter. What's more, the other characters are also completely unlikable. I found Rufus utterly unlikable- just a complete test of my patience. I'm glad to know my lackluster opinion of Deponia wasn't just me being dense. Some of these were pretty funny and used the format of an adventure game to enhance the comedy, but at other times you just wish you were controlling a capable protagonist instead of a sped. The rake one in particular made me look up a guide and become more frustrated with how simple the solution was. A lot of the puzzles are tuned to Rufus being a retard, like getting the gardener to move the rake, or feeding the homeless guy a shoe. Some of the hate towards the protagonist is also because of the puzzles. The animated cutscenes are also more numerous yet of a lower quality, reminding me of amateur Newgrounds animations at times. Some of the dialogue sounds like the devs were trying to make Rufus into a meme or something. I also feel that the second game steers way too far into the "lolso random" category of humor, what with the platypuses and dolphin training. That's like some 4chan newfag's first post on /b/. But what's up with all the animal abuse played for comedy? Is this a German thing? I know some will probably call me a moralfag or something because of this, but I saw the "killing baby dolphins" puzzle signposted from miles away, hoping that my expectations would be subverted, and they were not. I could see how some journo would get mad at the whole mind-swapping a woman thing, and I don't really care about that. I've heard a lot about how these games are detested for the unlikable protagonist, and yeah, I can see that. Been playing this series lately on account of being very ill and having time to spare. ![]()
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