Deponia

First and foremost I have nothing but praise to Daedelic for making a game with a prolo as its (antihero) protagonist, prolo being more or less what my mother calls whitetrash, or at least would, if I didn't "accidentally" pull the plug on her. Hehe. Oh, wait, you say that was in bad taste? In that case I don't recommend you this game and you can stop reading now, because Deponia will offend you, and offend you it will (my mother is doing fine, btw). Now I'm not the squeamish type and I like my fair share of dark humor, but this game makes such a little attempt to justify your actions, which include, but are not limited to, poison, betrayal, selling into slavery, murder and making fun of minorities, that it is so difficult to buy into and feel sympathy for its world. For starters, Rufus -the bitch resting faced prolo-, has so little respect for hi(s) friend(s) you wonder how he got him in the first place, let alone have a girlfriend! Second, the game obliterates the fourth wall by not only being aware but constantly reminding you that things can only be done by its protagonist (and why?, because it's his game obviously -lame). Third, the two main female characters are either too bitchy: Toni, who has all the right to be, imho, or not much more than an object: Goal I-kid-you-not-that's-her-name, whose memories can be manipulated at will, which I can only assume was in effort to please the 1.8m (6 ft) tall 17-25 yr male Caucasian population this game is directed at. Finally, the story is not very compelling and although voice acting is good I found it of so little consequence I soon stopped trying to make sense of it. Positives? I have to give most of them to the art department for a superb job, as mentioned voice acting is good, and puzzles bring a good challenge and although you're sometimes given little direction on what to do next I found none of them to be insanely difficult (a little annoying, yes). In short, if you're a dwarf, animal lover, or black: not recommended.

This game is not bad. But it doesn't finish and you'll have to buy the second chapter. I'm tired of this policy, I want a starting and an ending when I buy a game.

Another daedalic game and it starts with troubleshooting, again. In the menu/game I have 999 fps. It doesn't seem to overheat my gpu at all so whatever.. No borderless window, again. Inventory click issue.. google it.. There are threads going back 4 Y E A R S. You click on something in the inventory, which is already obnoxious (you have to mouse wheel down then click something, then mousewheel up to close inventory screen). But you have to click maybe once, maybe 15 times to select something in your inventory. Has something to do with FPS (oh look that 999 fps is causing issues, shocker). So now I have to do a work around to try to cap my fps at 60. The game for what little I have played has been annoying as hell. I think this will be the last time I buy a daedalic game. I have about 10, and there is always issues if you use multiple monitors, or run higher than 60hz. I'm not asking for some surround either, for the boomers out there on your dells.

What a waste! This game could have been so much better with improved writing and a more insightful social attitude. It's faults are painfully sad. Even though I found some humour, fun puzzles and an interesting alternative world to discover, the main character is a narcissistic leaching psychopath void of empathy. Not a fun nor sophisticated character to play. It takes away from any attempt at humour, because of the deliberate disregard he has for others. By design it’s impossible to take anything away from this game. Which in turn makes playing it utterly pointless. Many games offer sophisticated humour, invoke ethical thought, critical thinking, even ambiguous ethical dilemmas. Deponia, however, is game that promotes toxic masculinity, upheaves rape culture and is unforgivably socially backwards, totally dismantling any of it’s qualities. This game lacks insight, is cheap, unenlightening and a huge disappointment. The female characters were particularly poorly written or made nonexistent (e.g. sleeping), degrading the storyline. Considering the game is from 2012, this lack of insight quickly became an annoyance. I've seen more impressive and socially progressive work from the nineties. Despite the game having themes concerning subjects like dystopia, inequality, resource scarcity, callousness and lack of empathy, non of these subjects were actually addressed. Instead, commentary was left to a uninsightfull narcissist, who superficially started to feel a little bad as the game progressed. There was no depth to this story. The main female character was treated as a commodity the entire time and was constantly manipulated. All female characters were constantly being sedated/drugged if they were inconvenient, e.g. had independent wants, needs or interests of their own. It’s such a shame, because the world created could have had such potential if scripting had been better and if a higher level of social awareness would have been incorporated.

Obnoxious & boring.