![]() Or, as is obviously going to be the case for anyone other than the designer of the puzzle, you're going to randomly click objects in your inventory together until something combines, and then stare at the screen with your mouth hanging slack that this exists in the universe. So of course you need the underwire from the bra of our trans friend (to improve her bust, apparently), and a potato that then needs to be chopped in half, and you have to think, "I know, I'll combine a chopped in half potato with some bra underwire, and that will make a pair of earmuffs." You need a band to play a song, but a man nearby doesn't want them to. ![]() But continuing the downward spiral for the series, the puzzles are increasingly ridiculous and dependent upon random stumbling. It might be possible to see all of that as an annoyance if the game underneath were solid. To feel sorry for people who find this the height of wit. The only rational reaction is to feel sorry for it. You'd have to really stretch a muscle to be offended by any of it, because it's so pathetic. mother-in-law jokes! Her mother is fat like an elephant is fat! She's a "harpy"! She's so fat she couldn't break bones from a long fall! It's like being trapped inside a 1970s sitcom hell. The resetting of the story means we get to enjoy more of the wacky back-and-forth banter between Rufus and his furious mechanic girlfriend Toni, as she accurately points out what a selfish bastard he is, and he complains about her "nagging". On encountering the very first non-white character in the game, one member of a mixed-race couple moving into a house, Rufus's only remark on looking at either is, "Huh, there goes the neighbourhood." I'm sure it wasn't meant specifically, but fuck me, how did no one flag it up as a problem?) (On top deliberately insulting portions, the game is so astonishingly thoughtless. You know, so you can shave off the fake beard you stuck to a child's face and then got covered in bees. Rufus can insult her in a series of ways, but the key one is to point out that her legs are too hairy for her to be a woman (no, really), and then, through a convoluted and ludicrous sequence of puzzles that your brain would switch off if I tried to plot out, you get her some wax in exchange for her "ladyshave" electric razor. ![]() But HA HA HA! She's so hairy and manly, not like a lady one bit! This, we're asked to enjoy, means she's come to realise she's a woman. Cue Toni kicking the shit out of him for something, and his emerging from the bar in a pink dress, wig, and awkward make-up, clutching at his groin. There's a large, gruff, hairy character in a bar, who makes some remark about how, "You'd see me in a pink dress before I'd." etc. Instead, you're dragged down the obviously reductive well of shite that the writers seem to find so infinitely hilarious.Īlong the way you encounter a series of stereotypes for Rufus to insult, which leads to one particularly repellently transphobic sequence. Opportunities for clever time travel gags, or Bill & Ted style planning, are all ignored. The entire first act of the game is spent agonisingly repeating the same humourless or outright repulsive sequences and collecting the same inventory objects as you are forced to reverse time (at least) twice to find a way to prevent the glasses getting broken. Once he's come to terms with all of that, a time traveller shows up and breaks Rufus's original inexplicable girlfriend Toni's crystal glass collection. This, sadly, includes his eventual faux-noble sacrifice. Rufus wakes up and realises that the tales of his being some sort of clone, of working alongside two of his identical-looking nemeses, and of having a girlfriend literally called "Goal" who has a reprogrammable brain implant he programs to remove all the "bitch" from her personality, were all apparently a dream, or at least a vision of the future. Hard to find that particularly unhappy after suffering through three games with the repellent shit, but that's the background to this fourth entry. The three games ended on a purportedly unhappy ending that saw Rufus falling to his apparent death. It's a story about an unpleasant arsehole called Rufus, who lives on a trash planet that's about to be destroyed, and dreams of reaching the idyllic floating city of Elysium. The previous Deponia trilogy was an unpleasant point-and-click graphic adventure series of almost impressively diminishing returns, that descended ever further into embarrassing, tawdry, sexist and arguably racist crap. Even after concluding its trilogy with a fairly final ending, somehow the repulsive Rufus is back once more in Deponia Doomsday to insult, demean and spoil your time. The horrible Deponia series will not go away.
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