Goodbye Deponia | |
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Developer(s) | Daedalic Entertainment |
Publisher(s) | Daedalic Entertainment |
Series | Deponia |
Engine | Visionaire Studio |
Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows OS X Linux PlayStation 4 Xbox One |
Release | October 15, 2013 |
Genre(s) | Point-and-click adventure |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Goodbye Deponia paints an animated world that welcomes players in with its crazy cast, sensational sci-fi, and inventive puzzles. It’s not the easiest to get into if you’re new to the genre, but those used to point-and-click logic will feel right at home. Not one, not two, but three Rufuses cause all kinds of crazy mayhem in the long-awaited adventure comedy Goodbye Deponia - part three of the Deponia series. The Organon plans the destruction of Deponia, the lovely Goal has (once again) disappeared, and anti-hero Rufus just can't seem to. Goodbye Deponia Complete Solution, Walkthrough, Guide - (PC) Table of Contents 1 Prologue: On the cutter 2 Hotel portent - Part 2 3 Hotel portent - Part 3. The third game and Grand Finale of the trilogy, titled Goodbye Deponia, was released on October 18, 2013. After putting Goal's personality back together, she disappears yet again. When looking for her, he finds a cloning machine and thinks that he has found the solution to his problem: More Rufuses would mean more efficiency in his mission!R.
Goodbye Deponia is a point-and-click adventure created by Daedalic Entertainment. It is available since October 15, 2013 and is the third installment of the Deponia trilogy.
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Synopsis[edit]
Anti-hero Rufus still lives on the planet Deponia which is nothing more than a dump. He still wishes to become an inhabitant of Elysium, the flying city. Furthermore, he wants to stop the Organon. This military organization deceived the Elysian government by telling them Deponia is not inhabited any more and it would be better to blow up the planet. Rufus gets help from pirate Bozo, the Elysium girl Goal and the resistance.
Plot[edit]
En route to the upper ascension station via Bozo's cruiser, Rufus and Goal get stuck on an Organon cruiser behind them. While trying to save Goal, Rufus meets Barry, his biggest fan who wants to watch Rufus in action. Rufus frees Goal, destroying Bozo's cruiser in the process.
Rufus, Goal, Doc and Bozo are forced to continue their trip to the upper ascension station in Porta Fisco by foot. They overnight in a hotel. There, Doc and Bozo set up a lab so the three Goal personalities can be finally merged. Doc and Bozo deceive Rufus by telling him he must look for an important object (of which they think does not exist).
Meanwhile, Argus sends Cletus and Opperbot on a mission to find Goal after they noticed they captured Donna instead of Goal. Rufus finds out Cletus has the important object in his room. Once in possession he returns to the lab but it seems the operation is already finished with success. A furious Rufus leaves the lab and runs into Argus who just arrived with Donna. After some hide-and-seek, Rufus (currently wearing Cletus' clothes) can convince Argus he is Cletus (Rufus and Cletus are look-alikes). A disguised Goal claims to be Donna. The plan works and Argus takes them to the last Organon-cruiser in Porta Fisco.
Aboard the cruiser, Rufus removes his disguise before being warned about the cameras in the room. He attempts to erase the footage and Goal is taken to be interrogated by Argus in the process. Rufus sneaks in inside a torture bot as Argus reveals his plan to conquer Elysium and wants Goal by his side. Much to Goal and Rufus' surprise, Argus removes his helmet to reveal he also looks just like Rufus. Rufus tries to free Goal by pushing random buttons but ends up injecting her with a lethal shot of Sodium Amytal. As she dies, she admits her love for Rufus, while a devastated and helpless Rufus looks on at the tragic event. Angered and saddened, Argus then orders the guards to have the bot (not knowing Rufus is inside) thrown overboard.
Rufus ends up in a room similar to the tutorial of each game. He believes the room is Hell due to the repeated process of being killed by the crusher and returning to the room. Further investigation reveals the room is actually a cloning facility. Rufus manages to get past the machinery to find a man resembling Death. Rufus follows the man and finds out his name is Hermes. Hermes admits that he is responsible for the situation Rufus finds himself in. He discovered Utopia and got the idea to make Elysium to fly there. He thought up the idea to destroy Deponia to power Elysium, having forgotten that people still live there. He also created a line of clone workers to do the work. Hermes explains that Rufus, Cletus, and Argus are the last living prototypes of the clones. Rufus becomes infuriated and vandalizes the facility. Hermes becomes depressed and kills himself.
Suddenly, a dead woman falls out of the sky. Rufus recognizes Goal and wants to ask Hermes if there is a way to clone her. However, Hermes just committed suicide so Rufus first has to clone him. Once succeeded Goal is also cloned. However, she returns as a baby and falls in the drain. Rufus has three problems which must be solved at same time: to rescue baby Goal, to prevent the invasion of the Organon in Elysium and to prevent Deponia to be blown up. That's why he clones himself twice which means there are now three 'Ruffi'.
One Rufus ends up aboard the last Organon-cruiser while the other two end up in the resistance headquarters. They find the Captain Seagull is still alive and is the new leader. He's planning to fire a cannon at Elysium to prevent Deponia from being destroyed. One Rufus convinces him to hold off the attack until he can age Goal back to an adult. Seagull is really only allowing it hoping Rufus will fail and finally acknowledge how much of a failure Seagull thinks he is. Rufus ages baby Goal but she is in fact revealed to be a clone of Donna rather than Goal. Seagull demands Rufus gives up and resorts to threatening one clone with a gun while the other points out Rufus' faults. Rufus' deceased adoptive mother is mentioned pushing Seagull to fire the gun. The other resistance members intervene and the shot instead hits the other clone. Rufus carries his wounded clone to an escape vehicle but accidentally backs it into the cannon preventing it from being fired.
Meanwhile, the Rufus on the cruiser has been working with Cletus, (whom he mistakes for one of the other Rufus clones). He makes the discovery that Goal was saved after the lethal injection incident. She's thrown from the cruiser and Rufus follows her on Opperbot. At the headquarters, Rufus is mourning the death of the other Rufus. Seagull prepares to kill Rufus when the Rufus riding Opperbot crashes into him killing them both. The last remaining Rufus reunites with Goal and apologizes to her and everyone for having doomed them all. However, Goal convinces everyone to give Rufus another chance pointing out it's thanks to him Deponia has not yet been destroyed. The resistance looks to Rufus for one last crazy idea. Rufus decides they will all cram into the vehicle inside the cannon and fire it at the cruiser.
The plan succeeds although Rufus is seen as Argus and taken to Ulysses, the leader of the Organon. Argus who was also on the ship reveals that once his army reaches Elysium, he will use his army to take over. Ulysses not wanting a coup to occur stops the Highboat while they are still in the range of the explosion, in hopes of saving his daughter Goal who he thinks is in Elysium. Goal shows up on the bridge, in hopes of convincing her father to stop Deponia's destruction. However, the irreversible process for the detonation already started.
Rufus convinces Argus and Cletus to cooperate in order to destroy the transmitter of the bomb, while the people on the Highboat escape to Elysium by climbing the wires. Argus tricks Cletus to seemingly fall to his death, and after stopping the transmitter tries to coerce Rufus into joining him in his plan to take over Elysium. Cletus comes back and attacks Argus which caused all three get stuck in the rotor which balances the cruiser. They are found by Goal who can only rescue one of them. She decides only to rescue Rufus but as the three wear the same outfit she does not know who Rufus actually is.
Ultimately, Rufus tells Goal that Cletus is actually Rufus and lets go to fall back to Deponia (fully aware that he knows that Goal still loves Cletus). Goal saves Cletus while Barry follows Rufus down, congratulating him for his selfless action and for saving everyone.
Goal takes “Rufus” to the council of Elysium. The council is concerned: due to the new situation Elysium is overpopulated and there are not enough resources. That's why they have the intention to destroy Elysium and move back to Deponia. Goal tells the council to listen to the advice of 'Rufus'. Cletus decides to give up his old identity and to live as Rufus from that point onward. Goal then leaves the scene and goes to a perch overlooking Deponia. She sighs hinting that he knew she picked Cletus over Rufus. It is not revealed whether the real Rufus survived the fall or not.
Reception[edit]
Domestic[edit]
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German publication Golem.de declared Goodbye Deponia a commercial hit.[5] The game debuted in first place on the GfK Entertainment Charts' weekly computer game sales rankings,[6] and sold 10,000 units in its first seven days across Germany, Switzerland and Austria.[7] Half of these sales came from online stores such as Steam. Carsten Fichtelmann of Daedalic Entertainment noted that these numbers were 'a record for us', and that they marked the first time in 15 years that an adventure game had reached first place on the German market's weekly sales charts.[5] However, he criticized brick and mortar retailers for understocking the game and 'driv[ing] customers to digital purchases, or to mail-order companies like Amazon'.[7]
International[edit]
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According to Daedalic, Goodbye Deponia achieved strong international sales in its opening week.[7] It was well received by critics. As of October 2015, it holds an 80/100 Metacritic score from 34 reviews,[9] and a 74.24% ranking at GameRankings from 16 reviews.[8]Adventure Gamers writes as its verdict about Goodbye Deponia: 'The Deponia trilogy turns out to be very good at goodbyes. If you enjoy LucasArts-style comedic games, this series – and especially the final game – will provide hours of tongue-in-cheek unconventionality.'[10]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Lück, Patrick (October 4, 2013). 'Ein dreifach Hoch!'. GameStar (in German). Archived from the original on November 1, 2013.
- ^Altenheimer, Andreas (October 10, 2013). 'Test; Goodbye Deponia'. Gameswelt (in German). Archived from the original on May 1, 2015.
- ^Schütz, Felix (October 15, 2013). 'Goodbye Deponia im Test: Gelungenes Finale der Müll-Trilogie - Ab heute erhältlich'. PC Games (in German). Archived from the original on November 16, 2019.
- ^Wöbbeking, Jan (October 16, 2013). 'Test: Goodbye Deponia'. 4Players (in German). Archived from the original on November 21, 2013.
- ^ abSteinlechner, Peter (October 23, 2013). 'Goodbye Deponia, hallo Adventure-Verkaufserfolg'. Golem.de. Archived from the original on March 18, 2016.
- ^Kleffmann, Marcel (October 24, 2013). 'Goodbye Deponia - Verkaufserfolg und Kritik am Einzelhandel'. 4players. Archived from the original on October 19, 2015.
- ^ abcDammes, Matthias (October 23, 2013). 'Goodbye Deponia stellt Adventure-Rekord zum Verkaufsstart auf'. PC Games. Archived from the original on August 6, 2018. Retrieved August 6, 2018.
- ^ ab'Goodbye Deponia for PC'. GameRankings. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
- ^ ab'Goodbye Deponia for PC Reviews'. Metacritic. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
- ^ abWaxman, Becky (4 November 2013). 'Goodbye Deponia review'. Adventure Gamers. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
External links[edit]
- Official website
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In a time of COVID-19 and all of the unpleasantness that comes with it, everyone wishes they could be whisked away to a fantastical game world, and the Deponia series is always useful for that.
Goodbye Deponia is the third of four games in the point-and-click adventure series from Daedalic Entertainment. You know the score with point-and-click adventures – you speak to characters to find tidbits of information, solve puzzles and collect items from one place and use them elsewhere. In the Deponia games, items can be merged on the inventory screen, though the correct combinations rarely make logical sense, as early on you’ll be making a pie for a friend and putting in things like a urinal cake. Some friendship, eh? Gross.
That sort of toilet humour is abundant throughout this Deponia adventure. You’ll be holding a baby until it barfs over your friend, feeding all manner of toiletries to a cell-mate to attract the attention of prison guards, and sprinkle fish scales all over a soothsayer’s robe so he thinks he has dandruff. It’s a level of humour which hits the spot more often than not, with the art style lending itself well to the comedy side of the game. It’s almost a The Simpsons-esque presentation, and everyone loves The Simpsons. Yep, even the new ones.
But, where Goodbye Deponia excels the most is in its puzzle design – and not necessarily the puzzles involving moving items to and fro. The particular highlight in this edition is a puzzle involving a seemingly never-ending maze. With protagonist Rufus and partner Goal having been locked up, a very clever placement of a coffee cup is enough to get the job done, but it’s the sort of puzzle where the answer is staring you right in the face for the entire time that you’re trying to figure it out. For this reviewer, that’s the most satisfying kind of puzzle of them all; one which evokes a eureka moment after a while of fruitless trial-and-error. There are a couple of dud puzzles, however – some don’t seem to have any logical sense at all, but fortunately, you can take the cheater’s way out and skip these puzzle set-pieces.
Half-way through the game, Rufus finds himself being cloned and split into three different versions of himself, and at that point, the game becomes a little more layered – you can switch between each of the three Rufuses at will, but each is in three separate locations with three separate stories to play through until they eventually reach points where they are able to come in contact with each other and interact by means of passing items to one another. It’s all very cleverly written, and though in storyline these things are all going on at the same time, there’s never the added pressure of feeling like you’re rushed. Players are able to just explore Deponia’s world at their leisure, and that’s very welcome.
A few dud puzzles aside though, there’s one other drawback in Goodbye Deponia, and that’s the physical movement. Getting too close to open doors can have Rufus walk through them and leave the scene when you intended to walk by them, and that happening repeatedly throughout the course of the game meant it became more and more noticeable and irritating.
Still, that can be overlooked – Goodbye Deponia is great fun, with some clever puzzles, humour and story. Just don’t spoil it for yourself by using a guide.
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Goodbye Deponia Review
Summary
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Goodbye Deponia is clever in parts, funny in places, and an enjoyable romp most of the way through. Some dud puzzles and fudged movement controls aren’t enough to derail it too badly.