![]() What would you say to somebody like me to maybe pitch them on the series and this game in particular? GameWatcher: Speaking personally, I’m a fan of adventure games, but I haven’t played the Deponia series up until now. He was already working in the industry, and that brought us together because he recognized that I had to be in the industry. When I finished the first version of the game it was at the end of my studies, and then I met Carsten Fichtelmann, who’s now the CEO of Daedelic. That was, in a way, the starting point of the company as well. That was when I was still studying, and so I did my first game which was Edna & Harvey: The Breakout. That was what brought me into the industry in the first place, because after they stopped making those games I really missed them, and I found no other developer who made games in such a fashion. I think there wasn’t a single game I didn’t enjoy from them. Of course in particular the Monkey Island series, but also Maniac Mansion. Jan “Poki” Muller-Michaelis: Yeah, I think I’ve never made a big secret of the fact that I’m a big fan of the LucasArts era. What would you say the strongest particular influences are? GameWatcher: Deponia is obviously very strongly influenced by classic point-and-click adventure games. ![]() But it’s good, the option to play the game a couple of times, it will add to the experience if you try to unravel that layer of the story as well, but you don’t need to of course. But I think it’s very much fun, even if you can’t follow all of the timelines anymore, because of course Rufus surely can’t. It gets really weird at the end of the game. You may get confused because we try to do every trick in the book with time travel and try to combine everything together. But I think it’s mainly in the introductory chapter and the last third of the game where it really escalates. Is that something that factors into the puzzles? GameWatcher: Time travel has a grand tradition in video games in general and adventure games in particular. We know that he can make things very chaotic without a time machine already and time machines can bring chaos themselves, so it’s a really, really bad mixture. He finds a guy who measures these anomalies around his hometown called McChronicle, and that’s when things start to get really, really weird. He learns that maybe this dream was not just a dream, but had something to do with strange time anomalies. Then he recognizes that he can remember situations from his “dream,” and this way he can change things. But soon enough he awakes as a young Rufus again, even before the events of Deponia 1, 2, and 3, and he thinks all of that was just a nightmare, and just goes on with his normal life. Elysium has fallen and there are monsters running around, so he sees no other option but to press the red button that will blow up the whole planet. The premise is that after Rufus has fallen in Goodbye Deponia (which is of course a big spoiler) he has grown old somehow, rummaging the landscape that’s now trapped in kind of a nuclear winter. Jan “Poki” Muller-Michaelis: It’s a little bit complicated. Get enthralled by the bizarre humor and the uniquely designed world and enjoy the largest and longest Deponia adventure of all time.GameWatcher: Run down the basic outline for me. Even without knowing the previous installment, the hilarity of Deponia Doomsday will have you cracking smiles and burst with laughter. Just imagine if this amazing technology would fall into the wrong hands!ĭive right into this frantic sequel of the Deponia cult-trilogy and join the chaotic anti-hero Rufus on his most peculiar adventure. Deponia and his well-shaved face had to survive!īut was this really just a dream? With the help of McChronicle, a quirky temporal scientist, who discovered strange time-anomalies, Rufus discovers that some time travelers from the future carelessly parked their time machine in his neighborhood. Of course he realized that these gruesome events -especially the mustache part- had to be prevented from ever happening. ![]() As the last surviving Deponian, he fought savage fewlocks, but in the end, there was only one way out: He had to blow up Deponia! And. But at what price? Elysium, the floating city crash-landed on the planet. One fateful night, Rufus awakes from a haunting nightmare: he sacrificed himself to save Deponia. I still have yet to try any of them, as usually these type of adventure games aren't my cup, but I have been tempted. The previous games looked great, and they are pretty popular. ![]() View cookie preferences.Īccept Cookies & Show Direct LinkThe latest in the Deponia series is heading to Linux on the 1st of March named Deponia Doomsday. YouTube videos require cookies, you must accept their cookies to view. ![]()
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