Is the story worth playing through?

[cu spacecowboy]

simple question: Im still in chapter 1 and i find the humor mediocre and the puzzles absolutely idiotic and pointless, so i wonder if the story has any potential to get anything positive out of this game!
what was your impression of the story?

[Faedrill]

I love the Story but if you dont like the humor and puzzles im not sure if you will like the Story

The humor isnt mediocre and the puzzles are not absolutely idiotic and pointless. Maybe you dont like or understand them but that doesnt make them bad.

[cu spacecowboy]

Originally posted by Faedrill:

I love the Story but if you dont like the humor and puzzles im not sure if you will like the Story

The humor isnt mediocre and the puzzles are not absolutely idiotic and pointless. Maybe you dont like or understand them but that doesnt make them bad.

You have anything of substantially to say or just a bunch of maybes?

[Faedrill]

Ok sorry i will make it more clear.

The story is Great and worth playing the game. But if you already hate the game so much you wont enjoy the game.

I hope this is substantially enough for you.

[Kameradoktorn]

I´ve played through all deponia games now, and I find the main character prob the most unlikable I´ve ever encountered in any game, constantly want to punch him in the face. The humor is very annoying and unfunny, and some puzzles feel stupid. Even the music gets on my nerves for some reason.

I played through them all because I enjoy the drawn backgrounds and some of the puzzles, and p&c games are not that common, so I take what I get.

So imo, if you haven´t found any redeeming qualities a few hours in, i´d say skip it.

[aardvarkpepper]

Originally posted by cu spacecowboy:

simple question: Im still in chapter 1 and i find the humor mediocre and the puzzles absolutely idiotic and pointless, so i wonder if the story has any potential to get anything positive out of this game!
what was your impression of the story?

same

it's no king's quest

[Unknown]

Let me tell you this, when I started playing deponia, especially first two chapters I didn't like it so much that I stopped playing.

After some time decided to continue again. I'm happy I did because it got so much better I can't even explain how much fun I had.

Especially when second part starts game gets much, much better (from floating black market). At least it did for me. it was 100% worth it for me.

[The Traveler]

I have a similar... problem. I like the setting, the characters, the music the whole thing. But I'm not an experienced adventure gamer. So far I reached the post office ith a walkthrough. But i'm stuck, again.
I only played The Longest Journey (with walkthrough here and there, and many notes, LOL), Beneath a Steel Sky (same), Technobabylon (not finished, lost save game), the first Blackwell title (I think I abadoned it too) Brken Sword Remastered(!) which had a useful yet not-in-the-face hint system.

The problem is I like this game (and adventure games), but I lack the skill to play them. I like them because no rush, haste nor you can die in most games.

[Shouro]

I would say that the 2nd and 3rd games try to introduce mechanics that try to think out of the box for point and click games.

Some solutions to puzzles left me scratching my head at times, and there was one that I solved even before I got to it (In retrospect that may be a fluke because on my part, it actually is a pretty cool puzzle looking back on it.)

As for the story and humor, let me tell you this. Rufus is a flawed character. He is selfish and rude, and we as an audience are supposed to laugh at him when he fails. And while he does try to rise up to be the hero over the course of this trilogy, there are times when I almost wanted to turn off the game because of how stupid he could be at times.

Of course this selfish behavior is addressed, but that's late in the series.

For the story, while it's not the best in point and click games, it certainly entertained me. It has a mix of grave danger and looney tunes style humor. Although when it gets serious it can give you whiplash on how hard it goes.


Now onto the content: I will go over most of the sensitive content shown in the trilogy, and if you're offended by any of the following this game might not be for you:

- Partial Nudity
- Trans women portrayed as men in dresses (this gets less offensive over time)
- Sexism (Mostly from Rufus, who gets proven wrong)
- Depictions of Drugs/Alcohol
- Racist imagery
- On screen death
- Pedophile joke (It's like: Rufus cuts in line to go into a pedo's van for free candy, and accidentally destroys the place.)
- Monster eating children (Off screen)
- Animal death (Implied)


Those are the main ones, and each of them only appear in the series only a few times.

If there is any other questions you may have, let me know!

(The 4th game is like a punch to the ♥♥♥♥, don't ask.)

[dave.]

Definitely worth playing, characters, especially Rufus, grow and bond throughout all three games, and it's really nice to witness it. Humor and tone generally remain the same, so if it's not your cup of tea, well, I guess you won't like the journey much, but I would still encourage you to give it a try and step outside of your comfort zone.
If there's a single gripe I have with the game it'd be its ending, but it's a completely different matter requiring a spoiler heavy conversation, so I won't say a word about it here.

[Melchor]

the story, yes.

but the ending is depressing.

[The Traveler]

Thanks the answers, but I gave up. With walkthrough i stucked hoplesly at the post office.

[Unknown]

Originally posted by HarbingerHU:

Thanks the answers, but I gave up. With walkthrough i stucked hoplesly at the post office.

As for adventure game Deponia is quite hard I would say. But story and music and humor gets better and better as game goes.

[furrykef]

I played through Deponia back in 2015 and loved it. I'm currently replaying it (I'm near the end of the first game) and it's definitely a lot rougher going this time around. The jokes aren't as funny even though I've completely forgotten most of them; maybe my sense of humor has changed. And the story is sssooo slllooowww to get going. Honestly, if it were my game design, I'd have cut out large chunks of game 1, such as the entirety of chapter 2. Literally nothing important happens in it except you meet a character whom you still could've met somewhere else later.

But my recollection is game 2 is much better and game 3 is epic. But you shouldn't just skip ahead to game 3 because you need the previous games for a lot of the context.

[furrykef]

Originally posted by Kameradoktorn:

I´ve played through all deponia games now, and I find the main character prob the most unlikable I´ve ever encountered in any game, constantly want to punch him in the face.

He's like that for a reason, though. Surely you remember Bozo's epic rant in the third game after Rufus finds an unconventional way to try to get him out of bed. That was the moment that made the whole trilogy so brilliant. Rufus is basically a deconstruction of characters like Guybrush Threepwood (especially his dickish Monkey Island 2 incarnation) and Leisure Suit Larry. Rufus gets the rant that all characters like them deserve.

And yet, no matter what depths Rufus sinks to, I can't help but cheer him on, and not just because I'm controlling him. Yeah, he's an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, but he definitely grows as a person throughout the trilogy and in the end tries to do the right thing at immense personal cost. And for that I love him.

[devawing412]

Personally, I felt the 2nd game where it shines the best due to better character interaction of the main character and better romance as well. However the ending for each game (except for the 2nd game) felt unsatisfying especially for the last game which it is divided for those who either strongly hate it or love it which it is still talk about it to this day. https://steamcommunity.com/app/421050/discussions/0/405693392905924419/

However the series is not lost cause for it does have better side characters in later games which they should gotten much bigger role. Heck they can even bring better game mechanic such as strategy/tactics genre such as Starcraft due to war between two civilization of the game (not going to spoil it) or adventure/RPG such as Zelda where Rufus did display combat skills and puzzles to be solve or etc.