There’s a pause, and then the view is distorted by waves that recede as Rufus finds himself right back where he started: just getting out of bed, pounding on a window and screaming, or listening to a stranger singing in the shower. These are supplemented by ambient audio: metals creak, flames crackle, time portals swish, and caddie unicorns fall ker-splat.Īn intriguing visual effect occurs when time is rewound (which happens frequently). Background animations bring liveliness to this wide range of locations: body-armored lobsters frolic, clock hands race backwards, and flies buzz among the carcasses.
I was startled to discover that Rufus was right to pull out all the stops to visit this city-in-the-clouds, as the Elysians are remarkably Rufus-like in their rejection of hard work and responsibility. On Elysium you’ll marvel at the golden arches and scrollwork, the futuristic amusements, and the Disney Land atmosphere. Details abound: on Deponia you’ll see rusted walls, lumpy vegetation, Chinese lanterns, and unexploded ordnance. The game features a variety of environments, from snowy expanses to celestial towers and surreal carnival rides. Just as they were in the previous games, the graphics in Deponia Doomsday are elaborately stylized and brightly-hued. Why the glasses are so vital to the future of Deponia, what to do to finally escape the time loop, and who is controlling the pink elephant are some of the factors that become entwined (and re-entwined) in this mad caper through garbage-strewn terrains, peacock-baroque suites, and the cobbled-together environs of Paradox City. But just as they stop accidentally re-breaking them, a pink elephant appears from out of nowhere to make sure everything stays smashed. Shattered crystal stemware is the ideal experimental sample for rewinding time, and after multiple attempts, Rufus and McChronicle manage to undo the destruction of some wine glasses. You’d think any gadget that could reverse Rufus-inspired fiascos would literally be a lifesaver. This engineer-on-the-loose has invented a device that can “avoid accidents after they have happened.” At first this appears fortuitous, because Rufus has caused so many mishaps and blown up so much stuff that the people of his hometown now fear his very presence. The first cycle begins innocently enough when Rufus meets fellow tinkerer McChronicle. The wacky puzzles, oddball surprises and pleasing eccentricities kept me smiling through each outlandish twist all the way to the unnerving end. Naturally, space-time and other continuums are disrupted as they go.
Deponia review plus#
Quirky new characters and familiar faces follow Rufus through the topsy-turvy trash planet Deponia, the sumptuous towers of Elysium, plus a series of in-between, patchwork landscapes. This new adventure is Deponia meets Groundhog Day, with Rufus and everyone around him caught in time loops that only a never-ending (anti-)hero can escape. Though we thought we’d seen the last of him in 2013’s Goodbye Deponia, he’s returned to his old tricks in Deponia Doomsday, the unexpected fourth part of Daedalic’s series that is part-prequel and part-sequel to the original trilogy.
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