We’ve had one of Leisure Suit Larry strutting his stuff on the dancefloor, now here's Rufus and Goal Surprisingly enough it doesn’t come to that. or just escape together and let the planet be destroyed. In Goodbye Deponia the Elysians are planning to destroy Deponia so Rufus and his Elysian “girlfriend” Goal have to quickly figure out a way to stop them. This plot is in no way a rip-off of Matt Damon’s recent movie Elysium despite sharing the name of their floating rich-people city since the first game came out last year and didn’t have Sharlto Copley in it. The Deponia series follows Rufus, professional ego-driven incompetent, as he attempts to escape from the trash-covered Deponia to Elysium, the floating city of the rich. Just in case though I have my Monkey Island 2 code-wheel on standby in case I need to slit my wrists with something symbolic. Fortunately Daedalic have redeemed themselves since then with the excellent Night of the Rabbit and two great The Dark Eye adventures, so maybe we’re ready to return to Deponia now.

It wasn’t funny in any way, puzzles were the worst kind of adventure game nonsense, the plot felt like it consisted entirely of padding, many major goals just felt unsatisfying like “get a cup of coffee” or “go upstairs”, and worst of all main character Rufus was a copy of Guybrush Threepwood with all the wit, sweetness, and likeability stripped out. I make no apologies for utterly hating Deponia, a game that was to comedy adventures what Stephanie Meyer is to vampire novels (has fans but is a blight on the genre).