Goodbye Deponia is a slow, slow burn that doesn’t start coasting until those Hotel Menetekel moments are finally up and done with. And, of course, he’ll succeed, but not without leaving a landfill of broken bones and platypus parts in his wake. During their stay, the appearance of Cletus kicks off an episode of who’s-who switcheroo straight out of an 80s family sitcom as Rufus attempts to impersonate his rival and sneak aboard a Fisco-bound battle cruiser, nasally snark and all. On their return voyage to Porta Fisco, the resistance fighters are left stranded upon an Organon supply route until they stumble onto the Hotel Menetekel, a precarious lodging buoyed like a rusty beehive beneath the high-rise tracks. The game begins clumsily where the last left off, with Rufus once again compromising the group’s efforts against Cletus and the Organon. “Deponia” only in name, Daedalic’s final chapter to this irreverent, scrappy series lays the Rufus on thick, making for a mostly satisfying climax that doesn’t always let its fascinating world shout louder than the rowdy protagonist. It claws for that character arc so much so that it seems to forget what made these Rufian romps so cherished to begin with. ![]() Goodbye Deponia works hard to earn its closure. ![]() For all his endemic wrongdoings, for all the animals tortured in chemicals and circumstance, for all his egotism and vanity and high-horsing, his disrespect for human life, caution tape, and flammable objects, Rufus closes out the trilogy a changed man. In its final, crumbling moments, Goodbye Deponia pulls a fast one: Rufus finally learns something.
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