Opening a box near the beginning of the game I was told, 'Phew, it looked much lighter lying in that cupboard.' There was no cupboard. Quite clearly enormous amounts of the dialogue have received a far too literal translation, as if stuffed through Google Translate, and you end up with absolute nonsense. It's always hard to know how much has suffered in the transition from German to English. And unfortunately, most of those came clumped together in the second (and longest) of four acts. Despite translation issues - and there are plenty - the game made me laugh a fair few times, and a number of the puzzles, while in no way original, presented a fair challenge. And as you also might expect, the game is packed with eccentric characters, dozens of objects to steal and use on other objects, and a hefty pile of jokes.Īnd it hits reasonably often. Do that, the story advances, and you repeat. It's an absolutely standard point-and-click affair - gather various inventory items, each hidden behind dialogue and puzzles, to solve a larger problem. Not quite so cutesy and fairytale-themed as the former, and sharing the slightly more aggressive humour of the latter, you play Rufus, a selfish and lazy man determined to find a way off the trash planet of Deponia. From Daedalic, they who brought us the lovely Whispered World, and the not so lovely Edna & Harvey, Deponia falls stylistically somewhere between the two. However, it's pretty much impossible not to warm to a game that opens with a song. That, and what are now familiar problems with the translation from German. And by the same accounts, has all the same issues that we tend to forget. Deponia, by all accounts, is every bit as good as many of the adventures back in the day. And yet it's so hard not to measure a modern point and click to the near-fictional memory of the past. I know this because I've gone back to play them, and either games can erode over time, or they're mostly not nearly as amazing as I remember (with the exception of those LucasArts few). I know that I misremember the adventures of the 90s. You can't refuse to find out - I promise it won't be a waste of your time. Set on a planet made of trash, will it prove to be a big pile of rubbish, or a diamond in a dungheap. Only with this rich girl from his dreams he might be able to escape Deponia and, unexpectedly, to save the planet.Deponia is released today - the latest adventure from German developers, Daedalic Entertainment. Help Rufus, the poor boy from the junkyard, to win over the girl from heaven. However, things don't work out quite as planned, since he has feelings for the beauty which limits his usual unscrupulousness. When he notices that Goal's husband is a dead ringer for himself, he hatches a diabolical scheme to gain access to the upper world. Rufus decides to help the young woman out by taking her back to her husband. Fate seems to smile on the snotty good-for-nothing when one day the attractive lady named Goal from the higher sector plummets into one of the trash heaps. He hopes for an opportunity to get into the world of the rich, who live in a floating city high above the clouds. He is part of the lowest social class, doomed to live his life in literal mountains of trash. In Deponia, the world has degenerated into a vast garbage dump, in which the crotchety Rufus ekes out his sorry existence. Daedalic Entertainment, once called “Lucasarts from Germany“ by the GameStar magazine, invites the players into a fantastic comedy adventure that revolves around a crazy love story of Rufus and Goal.

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