He pockets nearly anything that isn’t nailed down, throwing two cents’ worth of commentary into every action, while you click about the environment for objects to interact with and people to verbally spar with. Other scenes slow down with a dozen hot spots and half a dozen other puzzles to piece together before moving on. Some scenes whip by with action-game efficiency. The pacing is nicely mixed and matched as Rufus traverses his beautifully hand-drawn world. There's a lot of baggage to unpack there that I can't spoil for you. Rufus's rival is an inspector named Argus. They’re the guys you can point at and say, “There’s the bad guy,” but that’s a gray area as well. The Organon cruise above the trash-heap surface of Deponia on massive monorails, goose-stepping around in fuhrer-gray uniforms, and barking orders at each other through robo-static mouthpieces.
His adversaries are the Organon, a totalitarian regime designed by German guilt and running on police-state principles. The more predictable his idiot maneuvers got, the more I just shook my head. He resists reason, embraces idiocy, is narcissistic to a fault, and completely jerks around his friends but is, at worst, merely plucky with adversaries. Rufus is one of the most intentionally unlikable protagonists ever created. For better or worse, Goodbye Deponia is, beginning to end, a juvenile walkabout. His motivations are bald faced and childish on the surface, but his sojourn, as a whole, might be one of hope: hope to rise above the conditions he was brought up in, hope to spend time with the woman he’s falling in love with, and hope to - just once more - have a chance to save the day.ĭon’t let that high-minded thought fool you, though.
Ultimately, Rufus's motivating force is to live with Goal up in the silver-lined clouds above. Which isn’t to be confused with “Goal,” the name of his so-called girlfriend that descended from Elysium in a previous episode. Unfortunately, Rufus is too busy stepping all over himself to actually reach his goal. In this traditional point-and-click adventure, Rufus, our lame-brained anti-hero, sallies forth on his continuing mission to escape his home world of Deponia and ascend to Elysium, where the other half lives an existence hashtagged with nothing more serious than first world problems. Goodbye Deponia is the third and final installment of the Deponia trilogy.
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