Goodbye Deponia is a fun final round for Poki's Deponia Trilogie. Consider yourselves lucky, but for the love of everything, write better endings!! … Expand I wanted to give this review a 1/10 just for the ending, but I had to seriously think about the other 99% of the story and gameplay. Seriously, Daedalic, write some better endings. "The Whispered World" forced you to choose between one reality or another, killing off the characters that you worked with for 99% of the game "A New Beginning" forced you to kill the protagonist via super-heated steam "Edna and Harvey" forced you to realize that you killed a childhood friend, and left you with the decision to also kill his father or go back to the loony house. I've noticed a trend with Daedalic Entertainment and very **** endings. The other two drop down to Deponia never to be seen again, while Goal and Rufus go to Elysium, along with the few remaining Deponian survivors. That's sad! I wrote my own special ending for it, where Rufus gets saved by Goal through a SIMPLE dialogue option during the ending where she finally figures out which one of the three dudes pinned by the fan blades is really him. Literally 15 minutes of serious thought and storyline changes from the devs, and it'd be a 10. Unfortunately, there's a few roadblocks and puzzles that simply aren't intuitive, which should have been fixed during play-testing, and the ending is completely unrewarding. There's lots of humor, from toilet humor to adult humor, and you'll find yourself LOLing along the way. The story was enough to captivate me for over 50 hours of great gameplay over the entire trilogy. The puzzles are 90% intuitive, but expect to get frustrated enough to the point where you simply have to look online for simple answers, rather than clicking on every item, character, and conversation options with everything. Great adventure game series, in terms of artwork, sounds, voice, music. This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Overall, a good continuation of the series, well drawn locales, nicely written dialogue, joyful puzzles. I wonder if the original German has similar issues. Same issue plagued the first and second part, but Goodbye Deponia takes the cake. And when Organon starting singing their hymn for the first time - my eardrums, i'm afraid, were permanently damaged. Sound compression, balancing, equalizing are not well done, especially when it comes to Organon speaking. My main complain is the English sound - sound optimization for English version seemed to have missed the quality check entirely. Not hard, not too easy - pretty much a smooth ride all throughout, except for a couple tricky places. Good play time (i finished the game in just over 20 hours). Sound compression, balancing, equalizing are not well Not hilarious but fun as the prequels.
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