This game is a beautifully executed insult to all humanity.

In this last installment, the protagonist Rufus reaches levels of anti-heroism that are no longer funny-awkward, but plain "dafuq I'm gonna stop playing right now" despicable. The game had a pretty interesting plot point in the middle, which could have been a turning point in character development, but they blew it for laughs. And those aren't really laughs either, just "oh noes" moments.

(For example... Rufus finds some orphans, whom, in order to advance the game, you first have to send into the van of a paedophile, and then feed to a monster... I have no idea if there was a time and location where that counted as "funny", but it sure isn't now.)

Really. The writing is a serious mess. The jokes are unfunny and sometimes downright insulting. And if you think "well Deponia is supposed to be like that", this game is totally nothing like the earlier ones. Really. Those were funny, most of the time. This is just, well, cringy. And the finale is completely off the bat, and does nothing to redeem Rufus, OR the writer.

This game is a beautifully executed insult to all humanity. In this last installment, the protagonist Rufus reaches levels of anti-heroism that are no longer funny-awkward, but plain "dafuq I'm gonna stop playing right now" despicable. The game had a pretty interesting plot point in the middle, which could have been a turning point in character development, but they blew it for laughs. And those aren't really laughs either, just "oh noes" moments. (For example... Rufus finds some orphans, whom, in order to advance the game, you first have to send into the van of a paedophile, and then feed to a monster... I have no idea if there was a time and location where that counted as "funny", but it sure isn't now.) Really. The writing is a serious mess. The jokes are unfunny and sometimes downright insulting. And if you think "well Deponia is supposed to be like that", this game is totally nothing like the earlier ones. Really. Those were funny, most of the time. This is just, well, cringy. And the finale is completely off the bat, and does nothing to redeem Rufus, OR the writer.