Perhaps the game’s biggest downfall is what made the genre so famously difficult: the puzzles. If there was a comparable system to trophies/achievements on Switch, I’d be more likely to make this my platform of choice for games outside of exclusives. As I mentioned when playing Silence on the Switch, the portability and pick up and play nature of the genre makes this an obvious place to put it. The genre could live more comfortably now than ever with touch controls if they decided to use them like a mouse, but sadly that’s not the case since it’s not transferable to the other consoles. So how does the game from 2012 translate to modern day consoles? I haven’t played through the PS4 or X1 counterparts, but it feels right at home on the Switch. It’s all fairly predictable, but the writing in it is worth several chuckles. Rufus happens upon an organization that has captured a woman named Goal who intends on letting the people of Elysium know that Deponia still has humans living on it, but the group that has kidnapped her has other plans, and it’s up to Rufus to save her – or at least trade her for a large sum of cash to her fiancé. Perhaps rightfully so, as the inhabitants of Elysium don’t realize that the planet Deponia is inhabitable and use it as their garbage dump. The game tells a story of a man, Rufus, who feels he is too good for the world he’s living in and makes it his aspiration to ascend to the utopian city in the sky, Elysium. They had several IPs that launched before it, but this was the first game to really grab my attention and tell me I needed to play it. That is, until Daedalic came along with Deponia. I played what I could find, things from Sierra and the like, but nothing ever felt the same as Tim Schafer’s games. The likes of Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, and Day of the Tentacle all slinked their way into my heart, and I had a thirst for more. ![]() However, one of my friends had an older brother that played plenty of PC games, and LucasArts Games were my introduction to the genre. ![]() Growing up playing mainly consoles, I didn’t have a whole lot of experience with point and click games. It’s been several years since I played the original game in the series back on PC, so I was definitely ready to jump back into the world of trash. Daedalic’s humor driven point and click series Deponia comes not too far behind the other console ports. It seems more and more games are being ported to Switch, regardless of how old they are.
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