Chaos on deponia full#
The action speeds up considerably once you’re into the third act, but by that point the game is halfway through and there’s just not enough gas left in the tank for a full recovery. There are puzzles and minigames that will make you want to punch a platypus, but it’s not really difficult so much as just overloaded and underwhelming, and nowhere near strong or funny enough to support such a big investment in gameplay time. The second chapter of the sequel is bloated, dull and lacks any sense of direction or purpose. Things start off reasonably well, with a brief, gag-filled encounter between Rufus, Doc and Grandma Utz, but it doesn’t take long before it becomes mired in another unfortunate bit of similarity with Deponia. Rufus’ enthusiastically pragmatic doppelganger Cletus, meanwhile, is almost entirely absent save for a brief appearance in the final few minutes, and as he’s easily the game’s most interesting antagonist, his presence is missed. Janosch, for instance, is noteworthy only for his speech impediment, which serves as the basis for one of the game’s most irritating puzzles, while the woman named Donna is either insane or brain-damaged and speaks only in odd tics and giggles – leading to another drawn-out, clunky conversational sequence. Unfortunately, none of the newcomers are particularly interesting, and instead serve only as cheap (and largely unfunny) gags and throwaway plot devices.
Chaos on deponia plus#
It’s like the Spice Girls had a transporter accident, and Rufus spends the balance of the game trying to recombine them into the one “real” Goal.Īiding him in this task are Doc and Bozo, faces familiar to those who played the original, plus a mess of new supporting characters. But this time her personality ends up split into three distinct but incomplete components spread across three separate implant cartridges: Spunky Goal, Baby Goal and Lady Goal.
In just about every meaningful way, this game is a repeat of charmingly rude Deponia, including an opening sequence that sees an insane plan hatched by lead character Rufus knock Goal, the heroine, from the sky, once again damaging her brain implant. “Huzzah! All over again!” shouts the Chaos on Deponia theme song, and it couldn’t be more on the money. But it’s a letdown in other ways too, with rougher edges than Deponia and humor that misses far more than it hits. It serves purely as a bridge from the strong opening chapter to a hopefully-worthy climax, and as the middle child it inevitably suffers. Chaos on Deponia is the second part of a planned trilogy, and it shows.
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