Deponia

Deponia is a point-and-click adventure from Daedalic Entertainment . The name, derived from landfill , refers to the planet on which the story takes place in the game. Deponia is the first part of a four-part game series by the author and Daedalic co-founder Jan Müller-Michaelis and was released in January 2012.

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The main character of the adventure is Rufus, a self-loving, chaotic bon vivant who has long dreamed of leaving Deponia behind. He wants to get to the city of Elysium floating in the sky over the garbage planet. The game developers use a name from Greek mythology , according to which selected heroes and favorites of the gods find themselves in the afterlife on Elysion , a paradisiacal "island of the blessed".

In one of his attempts to leave the planet's surface with a self-made aircraft, Rufus meets the Elysian Goal, who has just discovered a world conspiracy. Rufu's clumsiness, however, leads to a crash of the two on the planet's surface, in which Goal's memory is affected. While Rufus tries to restore her, Cletus comes into play, Goal's fiancé, who is looking for his future bride.

After Rufus managed to escape from his hometown Kuvaq with Goal and met his fellow hobbyist Doc in a scrap mine system, he managed to use Goal to reach the ascent to Elysium. In the process, he gradually learns details about the conspiracy that Goal discovered at the beginning, in which Cletus is also significantly involved. Apparently the Elysians are planning to destroy the junk planet. Cletus should first convince himself that Deponia is uninhabited. It turns out, however, that Cletus is neither interested in a real examination nor in his fiancée. For him, Goal is above all a means to an end, in order to get at only her known Elysium codes.

In the further course of the plot Rufus meets the scrap cutter captain Bozo , whose ship he can use from now on. Goal decides to turn away from Cletus and join Rufus and the "good cause" he is pursuing. However, Cletus explains to her that Rufus was by no means the noble knight she believes she recognizes in him, but rather stumbled into the story at the beginning for selfish and unworthy motives. Goal is disappointed and bailiff Argus, another conspirator, complicates the situation even further. After numerous entanglements and mix-ups, Goal's memory seems to be lost and with her return to Elysium at the side of Cletus, the destruction of Deponia seems inevitable. But at the end of the adventure it turns out that hope is not completely lost.

Game principle and technology

Deponia is a point-and-click adventure . From Sprites composite characters act before hand-drawn, some animated scenes. The player can use the mouse to move his character through the locations and use the mouse buttons to initiate actions that allow the character to interact with his environment. Rufus can find objects and apply them to the environment or other objects and communicate with NPCs . As the story progresses, more locations will be unlocked. Dialogues with NPCs take place with the help of the multiple choice procedure.

Production notes

Deponia was released for PCs in January 2012 . A port of the game for the iPad was released in September 2015, and also for the PlayStation 4 in November 2016 .

The sequel and second part Chaos on Deponia was released in October 2012. The third part, Goodbye Deponia, has been available since October 2013 and was originally intended to conclude the series. In March 2016, Daedalic finally released a fourth part, Deponia Doomsday .

synchronization

character	Voice actor
Rufus / Argus / Cletus / Organon	Monty Arnold
Toni	Marie Biermann
goal	Sinikka Compart
Doc	Jürgen Holdorf
Bozo	Holger Löwenberg
Lotti	Daniel Welbat

reception

Deponia received mostly positive reviews. The Metacritic review database aggregates 33 reviews to an average of 74. The specialist magazine Adventure-Treff praised the richness of detail in the game world, characters and story, the scope of the game and its humor. The open ending was criticized - at that time the successor Chaos on Deponia had not yet been announced.

In the meantime, Deponia was the best-selling PC game at the online mail order company Amazon .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Adventure-Treff.de: Deponia: Test. Retrieved October 23, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b Metacritic.com: Deponia. Retrieved January 1, 2019 .
↑ Press release from Daedalic (PDF; 607 kB)

[AT-1] Adventure-Treff.de: Deponia: Test. Retrieved October 23, 2019 .

[MC-2] Metacritic.com: Deponia. Retrieved January 1, 2019 .

[3] Press release from Daedalic (PDF; 607 kB)


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