Daedalic Entertainment showed that they can put love and care into storytelling with The Night of the Rabbit and The Whispered World, even if they need some refinement. This is a beautiful game, the soundtrack is great, and the voice actors are well directed.
The way Goodbye Deponia deals with racist, sexist, and otherwise offensive material to the player is infuriating because the developers clearly have it in them to make a great game.
I don’t know if these jokes play better in Daedalic Entertainment’s native Germany, or if something is lost in translation, but after three games I tend to doubt it. There is even more that I haven’t detailed here, including an interaction between children and a pedophile that is more than a little disturbing. The way you get her to do the job? By destroying her life and literally selling her to the organ grinder.ĭeponia featured some decent comedy, while Chaos on Deponia showed a downward slide toward the offensive, especially in regards to how it treated women. I’m really disappointed to see Goodbye Deponia take this madness even further. The replacement you find happens to be one of the game’s very few black characters, and the game refers to her as a “monkey” for the rest of the game.
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One series of puzzles involves getting rid of an organ grinder’s “monkey” to get the crank from the grinder. When you think it can’t get any worse, the game defies all expectations. The psychiatrist, so tired of dealing with this one patient, prescribes rope to her so that she can kill herself. The other character, an ex-girlfriend of Rufus’, is driven back to the psychiatrist after Rufus pushes her over the edge. Rufus accomplishes this by lying about his own mental state, then forcing his friend to take the medicine. One is treated like a lazy crybaby by Rufus, and the solution is to get medication from the local psychiatrist to fix him. Two characters in the game suffer from depression. The way Goodbye Deponia treats mental illness is equally offensive.
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And, Daedalic clearly knows how to direct a cast. On top of the great music, the characters are well voiced, and some of them make you care about their plight thanks to how believable they sound. This is a soundtrack that I would almost be tempted to buy separately. The rest of the music is quite good as well, with appropriate and memorable themes playing at all the right times. Characters are equally well designed, colorful, and charming looking.Īny game that begins with a song promises a great time to come, and those songs, while a bit odd, serve as fun chapter breaks throughout the game. Cities and other structures look like junkyards, while the Organon structures have a more sterile look. Everything is hand drawn with bright colors and a lot of detail peppered throughout. Deponia is a world covered in trash tossed down from the orbiting Elysium, but regardless of the junkyard surroundings the environment design is beautiful. Oops.ĭeveloper Daedalic Entertainment clearly put a lot of love into the world of Goodbye Deponia. In one of the more clear cut puzzles, the guard gives you everything you need to break out of prison, including a hint about his cleaning.
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