But since the jokes are funny, that’s okay. Everything just opens more opportunities for more jokes.

Opening a door is never as simple as opening a door. Much like the first game, Chaos on Deponia is more about taking the scenic route. Rufus handles every incoming challenge with the confidence and enthusiasm of a steampunk version Inspector Clouseau - with much the same result. In fact, much of the plot is padded by Rufus doing some incredibly stupid and destructive thing to prolong the group’s efforts. Rufus’s toxic self-interest stalls the plan at every step. In order to stop the high council of Elysium’s order to annihilate the planet, she must return to the upper world to report that life on the surface still exists. Rufus has to swap each personality out of Goal’s body to learn more about her mission on Deponia. To someone that just wants to see the funny cartoon play in a bright world, it’s best to keep a spoiler-free walkthrough open in another window.Īs a result of Rufus’s stupidity, the personality of Goal (Rufus’s love interest from the upper world, Elysium) winds up split into three separate, interchangeable implants. For the truly gifted non-linear thinker, the puzzles pose a great challenge. In fact, the puzzles seem even more ludicrous than the last time around. Also like the first game, the puzzles are illogical, frustrating, and can only be accomplished when a very stringent procedure is followed. Like the first game, the jokes are funny, the setting is colorful and original, the music is exceptional, and the characters are absurd and charming. It’s a game that really shouldn’t be played until the first one is completed so consider the rest of this review a spoiler warning for Deponia. So, it would be in the player’s best interest to race through the first game before approaching the second. However, the game does reference characters and events from its predecessor, and the overall tone is better established in the first scenes on Deponia’s surface. It does give a brief summary of the previous game, so it’s possible to play and enjoy Chaos without having played Deponia. The game picks up immediately where the last one left off. And once again, it brings back all the excellent and problematic qualities of the first. Chaos on Deponia is the not all that suitable title of Deponia’s sequel. When I reviewed Deponia, I began my analysis of the game with a sort of warning that the modest numerical score at the bottom would probably not make sense given the largely positive things I had to say about the game.

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