played the trilogy a long time ago and thought i had never finished the third one, but i definitely did, even tho it shows only like an hour's worth of achievements... i remembered a lot of that game while playing through it

god my memory sucks, i think i consume too much CONTENT

anyway these games are both great and terrible

MOST of the puzzles are very solvable without a guide but every now and then it just throws so many fuckin options at you with very little guidance that you either resign yourself to tedium or just look up a guide... i'd say about two or three puzzles (or Entire Situations) per game are like that? it sucks cause otherwise i think it's a pretty immaculately designed game, very consistent within its own cartoon logic, although you do have to kind of let yourself be an idiot

and then there's the story... most of it is not bad! most of the writing is extremely good! it's fucking funny!

but it's also often extremely sexist and occasionally extremely ableist in ways that make me go ehhahehhwwe, and that fuckin sucks! goal and donna being the main culprits (or, rather, victims), respectively, but the tone carries throughout the entire game even when they're not around

i have a great fondness for this game but it's hard to recommend to anyone i respect because i'd be subjecting them to some real horseshit

ALAS!

still 4/5 stars tho like when it's funny it's funny i dunno i'm weak all right

ps having just come off of randal's monday, a game published by daedalic, and a game whose main character i despised because he was openly a piece of shit, it's a little weird to say, but i find rufus' bullshit far more endearing? maybe cause there are so many other characters calling him out, as opposed to randal, where no one really does, i dunno, but anyway, yeah

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Deponia. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the puzzles will go over a typical player's head. There's also Rufus's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation - his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realize that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Deponia truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rufus's existencial catchphrase "Zeeblezooble," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Daedalic Entertainment's genius unfolds itself on their computer screens. What fools... how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a Deponia tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.

"♫ ORGANON...! OH, OH, ORGANON...! ♫"

I could name you a thousand more examples.

"♫ OH, OH... O' ORGANOOON! ♫"

The fact is: we're the asses here.

"♫ ORGANON...! OH, OH, ORGANON...! ♫"

But is that something to be ashamed of?

"♫ OH, OH.... O' ORGANOOON! ♫"

I say: NO!

"♫ ENDSTATIOOON... ♫"

I, for my part, am proud of what I am.

"♫ ARMAGEDDOOON... OH... ♫"

I - am - an - ASS!

"♫ OOOH... O' ORGANOOON... ♫"

And you're all asses, too!

"♫ ORGANON...! OH, OH, ORGANON...! ♫"

It's time to show the world, what's inside us.

"♫ OH, OH... O' ORGANOOON! ♫"

Long live the ORGANON!