![]() ![]() Stick a pot of water and detergent on the stove, and you've got the ideal way to clean those socks. Therefore, they're very enjoyable: combine an empty jar with crumbs on the sofa, and you get rations for your journey. Objects that you pick up like Rufus' mouldy sock are placed into your inventory, which means that yes, you have to make sure you pick up everything in a given scene, lest you have to trek back for it later in order to solve a puzzle.įortunately-with only a few exceptions-puzzles make practical sense, rather than the often ludicrous video game sense that dictates that a sheet of prosthetic skin, a sword, and a manhole make for a great trampoline ( Escape From Monkey Island) or that a combination of bread, a seagull, and a rubber duck is an ideal tool for retrieving lost keys ( The Longest Journey). Rather handily, you can press the spacebar to highlight all the interactive objects in a scene, but oddly, this rather useful feature isn't pointed out to you at all during the game. The only downside to the wonderful animation is that it's often difficult to pick out objects you can interact with, given that they blend so neatly into the background. It's full of little details like cute rusty robots that fly across the screen and precarious junk piles that topple over as you walk past, bringing each scene to life. ![]() What makes such exploration all the more enjoyable is the animation, which is absolutely charming and a joy to look at. Most objects can be fiddled with in some way by looking at them, picking them up, or combining them with other objects, which often results in a cheeky quip from Rufus himself: "That explains why I've had such cheesy dreams," he remarks as you remove a mouldy sock from underneath his pillow. It's a gentle introduction to the simple point-and-click mechanics of Deponia, which encourage you to click on anything and everything. There are just four items scrawled onto a piece of paper to retrieve, all of which are scattered around the messy apartment. Fortunately, Rufus takes the Up in the Air approach to packing-minus the coldhearted handsomeness of George Clooney of course. And to kick things off, you tackle the scourge of holidaymakers and business travellers the world over: packing. Now he has a new "foolproof" plan, and it's up to you to help put it into action. A solitary wall in his messy attic bedroom is strewn with scrapped plans of escape that never came to fruition. It's no surprise, then, that Rufus longs to leave it all behind. There's no clean water he lives atop a stinking pile of trash and worst of all, he does so with an ex-girlfriend who by all accounts is the scariest, not to mention the angriest, woman on the planet of Deponia. Though he's an unemployed slob, it's hard to dislike him, mostly thanks to the many hardships he's forced to endure. Indeed, Rufus is very much the modern-day Guybrush Threepwood-a self-centred, sarcastic, naive layabout who's so full of character that the mere raise of an eyebrow is enough to cause a chuckle. It does not store any personal data.By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot'sĪnd wonderfully told it is too, full of the sort of dry humour and wry writing that have formed the backbone of LucasArts' best point-and-click games. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. ![]()
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