It is possible to rant that the Point-And-Click time has been ranted that the two-dimensional adventure is a miserable last century, and everything modern should be in 3D, with a full freedom of control of the character. And smaller difficulties – people, they say, do not like to strain brains today.
But there are several studios who are ready to contrast this senile grinding with such a classic, next to which most of the projects walking in the leg can nervously light. Among the heroes of defenders of the quest tradition-studio Daedalic Entertainment. In the relatively distant past, she first gave us a crazy Edna with her abnormal rabbit in Edna and Harvey: The Breakout, and then – the penetrating and wise parable of The Whispered World. More recently, we caught the eye of a wonderful adventure fairy tale called The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav. It is not surprising that from Deponia True quest -loves expected a lot.
Looking at Rufus aircraft, for some reason I want to say “ku” and look with eyes with raspberry pants. Interesting, but he has a gravitsapa?
Do not take out the garbage
What we certainly offered a lot is garbage (not to be confused with an assessment on Stopgame). Actually, the deposit is a planet littered with all sorts of rubbish. The developers did not gradually prepare us for immersion in the mountains of scrap metal and rags-no background or something like. We immediately dive into the very depths and only then, by scraps of conversations, can we restore the picture of what happened in time immemorial.
One way or another, as a result of the disaster, the planet turned into a giant landfill, and the surviving people gradually adapted to survive somehow on this landfill. From different technical debris, they smashed new mechanisms for themselves, distributed social roles, even established a water supply system – even though it is not water pouring from the taps, but a terrible smelly slurry. The inhabitants of the depot are satisfied with their lives.
Only the dreamer Rufus is dissatisfied with the son of the great inventor and concurrently the previous mayor of the small town on the surface of the planet. The main character’s dad, according to legend, managed to find the way to Elysium – a luxurious flying city, where everything is not at all like in depot.
Rufus himself also dreams of getting into heaven above his head. To achieve the goal, he makes with his own hands cunning
aircraft. Once the guy even gets almost it. “Almost” because the incident in the face of the beauty Goal, whom our hero saves from Elysium directly to the deposit, interferes again. Subsequently, he expects to use a girl who has a tight head as a pass to the “Higher Light”.
So I would say a complete cynic. We, not completely completed cynics, know that a landfill is a wonderful surroundings for a penetrating love story since the time of Wall-E.
This is what the fulfillment of cherished desires looks like. The hero got to where he wanted to get. And the fact that it hangs upside down on a chain is already a side effect.
The road to eccentricians and losers
Rufus, our new protege, in a sense-the closest relative of the hero from the Kingdom of Andergast. Surrounding Rufus do not like. The former girl, on the neck and in the dwelling of which the dreamer still sits, for obvious reasons wants to get rid of her disgusting neighbor. The bartender recalls that the loan is not a dimensionless, the mayor simply believes that all the troubles in the city are taking place through the fault of Rufus, and the best friend is not shy about using “better friendship” in order to enrich. The environment seems to tell our cheerful hero: “Do not show off. Be like everyone else “.
For Daedalic Entertainment This is generally a familiar topic. Who will win: a crazy hero with his craving for a different life or a crazy world in his stabbing, consisting of people who are ready to live and speak out exactly the same as in the context of the fantasy medieval, which is on the garbage dump?
However, not only the inhabitants make deposit a truly crazy world. Here are very strange laws of physicists and no less strange laws of coexistence of human individuals. The toothbrush comes to life and runs away from the hero, the magic wand helps to find water, the only doctor throughout the city also performs the functions of a fireman and a policeman, and the mayor sleeps in a box of his own table, reminiscent of the coffin. There are questions?
Before us is the world of absurdity, where our character, which at first seems to be local crazy, suddenly turns out to be one of the most normal, because only he does not intend to put up with the absurdity of local life and adapt to the idiocy of existing rules.
It is easy to get into an endless cycle with such a doctor: I woke up, I saw – in a fainting – and so fifty times.
Combine it
But quite, after all, philosophy. The concept of the world of deposit is deep enough and entertaining to discuss it for hours, however, given that we will return to it more than once, you will have to say a few words about the gameplay itself. Point-And-Click in the most impudent, pure form, without embellishment and modernization-this is what awaits us.
Everything is as usual: we are looking for objects, combine them in the inventory and use in ways so strange and confusing that the authors of the outstanding cerebral of the past could be proud of their heirs from Daedalic Entertainment. The epic only under the code name “Espresso creation” is worth! Is it possible to guess in their right mind and solid memory that one of the ingredients for an invigorating drink should be removed from a car battery using medical equipment? What is even worse, the other components of “coffee in a childish” are mined in no less perverted way. And for drinking are suitable in the same conditional degree.
Hints, by the way, practically no. The light fate is slightly facilitated by the light fate, and sometimes you can dissect it from the phrase, in passing to be thrown in one of the conversations with the NPC, what needs to be done at the next moment. You can skip mini-games-and sometimes because of bugs this opportunity is almost the only way out of the situation.
Having got out of the first location, we can continue to wander throughout the territory of our town at least back and forth, at least diagonally. Subtacle can also be performed in any sequence. The developers tried to insure us as much as possible from excessive stupors in the process. You can take the necessary items, unnecessary items, it is not clear why the necessary objects and carry them with you to health-unless, of course, the transfer of a pile of heavy things in bottomless pockets can at least go to health. That is why the method of “scientific poke” can work only in some cases. We carry too many things on our hump. Too many active points are scattered in locations.
In order to successfully pass this game, you need to start thinking differently than we are used to thinking. To be imbued with the selective madness of the world around him and find a strange, perverted, but, as a rule, a logical sequence of actions leading to the result.
The hero needs, for example, go to the mayor’s office without a queue, and in front of him four local residents managed to sit down with coupons and did not intend to concede. How to be? You just need to go to blow up a couple of houses-and the queue will resolve. Obviously. For “Old”.
Who needs multifunctional tools ..
Perhaps a resident of deposit, perhaps, a lot in the landscape surrounding him seems to be obvious and familiar. The player, who was only now allowed one eye to look at the jokes of not our town, will seem to be familiar. The absence of a fashionable amount of any “D” is compensated by the detailed study of each cartoon location. Before us is not just a landfill with a mountain of garbage. This is a creative landfill, dotted with very unusual garbage, among which there are mechanical bulls, toy ballerinas, funny gas or chili pepper, which suddenly grew up in the middle of the mechanical parts that served their mechanical parts. Next to sharp pepper, right in a pile of fragments, just the same suddenly “grow” houses, shops, and present buildings. All this splendor can be considered for a long time.
World Deponia It seems so organic and thoughtful that the thought of literary – or not very – the original source from which the concept of the “garbage” planet was borrowed by itself was borrowed by itself. It turns out that there are many such sources: screenwriters Daedalic Entertainment Inspired by creations Terry Pratchetta (Terry Pratchett), Matt Gruning (Matt Groening) and Douglas Adams (Douglas adams). From ourselves, we add to the list of inspirers the studio Pixar with the above-mentioned Wall-E ribbon-parallels are too obvious.
You can listen to the hero’s conversations with other inhabitants of the depot even longer, as well as your beloved. Dialogs in the best traditions Monkey Island Saturated in places with thinned humor and thick, spicy mixture from character characters. Or characteristic characters, which, however, is the same. And Rufus itself periodically excites remarkable reprisals. “This will turn out a wonderful multifunctional tool!” – in response to an attempt to cross together a fork and nippers. We should be happy with the success of how the vile inventor gives out a sequel: “Although who needs multifunctional tools … They are suitable only for amateurs”.
The developers did not have enough “gunpowder” to prepare at least a couple of different remarks of the hero in a situation where we are trying to apply an object in an absurd way. However, at least, Rufus apprays differently a good intention to catch a mouse and failed attempt to cross among themselves multi-colored socks. So we will not have to miss the next “halt” in the course of the stagnation. If the halt does not drag on for a week, of course.
Most fun, that if the developers reacted a little more democratic to the player’s brains, we would hardly have time to slap eyelashes more than once, stumbled upon the nearest plot turnover. The script is firmly torn, greatly twisted and prays about the sequel, which, by the way, is about to be born.
Even a mechanical bull does not like red color. However, perhaps this Rufus cannot stand even mechanical bulls.
Deponia – This is a real “old”, the flesh from the flesh of amazingly puzzling, warm, lamp adventure, which came straight from the golden age of the genre. The fantasy of the developers does not know tired and continues to immerse us in worlds who do not need three -dimensionality in order to be voluminous, atmospheric and completely abnormal.
Pros: a worthy plot;Thin humor;live dialogs;crazy world;atmosphere of light absurdity;multi -layered concept;atypical riddles.
Cons: sudden ending;Sometimes too complicated tasks;”Bugs”.
