Deponia vs Chaos on Deponia

[Tomato Juice]

A Friend of mine gifted me Deponia (I think from a Indie Bundle).
I played it an it brought me back to p&c games.
I had fun with the game.

After i finished it i have 0 interest in the second one.
It was a good game to get back into p&c games.
But after some playtime showed it's problems more and more.

My Problems with Deponia.
Very easy puzzles.
Two dimensional characters. Every character had one note that he played over and over again.
Extremely easy puzzles.
The story one big cliche. While the setting was very interesting. The story itself was butter thin and completely generic.
Did i mention the stupidly easy puzzles.


So my question.
How is Chaos on Deponia compared to the original?

Did they fix the weak points of the original or not?

[Siggi Windklotz]

In my opinion the story and the puzzels are a way better. But it is very similar to the first one, so i don't know if you'll like it.

[Tomato Juice]

Originally posted by Siggi Windklotz:

In my opinion the story and the puzzels are a way better. But it is very similar to the first one, so i don't know if you'll like it.

In that case I probably will wait for a sale.

[Arcane Azmadi]

Well the characters are a lot less one-note in the sequel. I don't think the puzzles in EITHER game were very easy and there was one fourth-wall breaking puzzle in the sequel that was so EVIL I couldn't believe they dared include it (although in hindsight it DID make logical sense, once you realised they were prepared to break the fourth wall). It's very funny too, but so was the first one so if that's not enough to convince you I don't know what is.

EDIT: Admittedly, part of the reason I found the games so challenging was that I only found out you can hold down mouse 3 to highlight all interactable objects AFTER I'd already beaten both games. Several times I got stuck because I didn't realise there was a small object I needed to interact with (like the fisherman's hook jar next to his bait bucket).

[jajakilroy]

Im a die hard Deponia fan. I love the series. I hope they extend it further than three games. Chaos in Deponia, back when I played it some puzzles were glitchy. Same for Deponia the original. But the story and game was so different than what I have played befor. It's pretty much a point and click game done right. Wait for a sale. But dont miss it!!! This is my advice. Oh and don't go to youtube to figure out the problems it burns threw the game. And saddens the experience. IF YOU GET STUCK. START COMPLETELY OVER. Eventually you will relize how simple the solution is. And you wont burn threw the game in 2 weeks. Ugh, I hate it when I beat a deponia game. My life lacks untill a new episode comes out.

[Space is the Place]

Two dimensional characters??? Compared to what??

Rufus is the only character that gets enough screen time to judge, and I will not consider him two-dimensional, otherwise, he will not have the short of dilema he´s into since the first game. And Goal does have three personas, ok the three of them are pretty much cliches, but she´s the combination of those three personas, not just one of them.

I´m pretty surpraise at some people reviews and opinions for this awesome adventure game. My complains are about glitches, obscure puzzles sometimes, an achievement system a little bit weird since there are cheevos trully hard to figure it out how to get them ... don´t share any of your opinions to be honest.

And that "easy puzzles" complain. Most of them are pretty easy in the first part, not so in the second one, but seriously, this is kind of Monkey Island 2 Monkey Wrench short of solution sometimes, it´s not as easy as "use key in locke" all the friking time, some puzzles LACK of any logic sometimes. The only way it may come as easy for you it´s probably because you start to try and miz everything in the inventory and put every item on every place on the map, THAT WAY? Yes, every single adventure game is pretty easy when you do that, eventually you´re going to get it right. But considering only all the adventure games there are in Steam, I will never consider this one as one of the easiers.

[Siggi Windklotz]

A few days ago Chaos on Deponia was awarded the "Best German game" Award, do i have to say more to change your mind?