This game, along with Age of empires, Gobliins and Baldur's gate made me love videogames. I will not talk about gameplay, because a lot of people did it better than I could ever do, but I must outline the fact that this game has the BEST manual ever. I think it is worth the money just only for the manual. Besides being one of the most complete and accurate game manual, it is written like an old epic poem: "Hephaestus emerged from his forge holding a shiny, silver disk. “This Zeus CD-ROM is what you need to get started, Democrates,” he announced. “To install Zeus on your omputer, insert the Zeus CD in your CD-ROM drive.” Most say that Windows’ Autoplay function then began automatically, and a screen popped up offering Democrates the options of installing, playing, uninstalling and quitting Zeus. Legend says that Democrates chose “Install” to get started." I have read this manual at least ten times, just for the pleasure....
I have played a lot of point-and-click game (Monkey island, Gabriel Knight, Broken Sword and so on...) and in my opinion Deponia can proudly stand between the "Good Old Game": music, art and puzzle are all very well made, there is a wonderfull dubbing and reference to monkey island too (although to the 4th, someone remember two parrot, grog and coffee?). The story is really intriguing, even though sometime you will shout at the screen things like "Don't do that, Rufus!". That said, the game is really short (I finished it in less then 8 hours), and the ending is a bit disappointing, as it not end the story at all. It is clear that Daedalic is trying to make an episodic game (I haven't finished Chaos on Deponia yet, so i can't say if it should be a third episode) but given the price of the game and the virtual no replayability of adventure games, i were expecting something longer. I think that if you liked the curse of monkey island, you will like even Deponia, but my advice is to wait when it will be on sale (and remember to buy chaos on deponia too)
