Chaos On Deponia: Review

Previously or later, questere studio studios, as a rule, come to the conclusion about the advantages of sending adventure to the market in parts. It is understandable: having broken the story into episodes, the authors can set the “retail”, a higher price tag, at the same time heating the public interest in continuing.

And then, the longer the quest turns out to be, the less hope that the average quest -loves will pass it until the end. Especially when it comes to toys from Daedalic Entertainment, sometimes capable of taking out the whole brain with non -standard tasks on the verge of madness and science fiction.

Deponia, published a few months ago, turned out to be a wonderful model of Adventura, in which madness and fantastic shamelessly rule the ball. No one doubted the continuation, although it was unlikely that many suspected that the second part – Chaos on Deponia – Make us happy with his appearance so soon.

Despite the fact that formally the market is floating and black, market area looks quite land and multi -colored. All lie, in general.

Circular summer (those) flax apparatus

The old acquaintance – the reckless and smug in the inventor of Rufus – we find almost on the way to Elysium. “Almost” because the air capsule with the unearthly beauty Goal on board the Rufus was quite accidentally stitched by a giant disc from the circular saw. An attempt to explain with a dream girl ends deplorable, so the main character and the main character falls down – in a pond located on the surface of the depot.

So, Rufus again cannot break out of the native cluttered world, while Goal once again hit his head and is quite in the spirit of the schizophrenic atmosphere that is divided into several autonomous personalities.

Now the guy should not only restore the memory and mental abilities of his failed girlfriend, but also save the deposit. After all, the question of the inhabitability of the “garbage” planet still remains open to the organ. Closing it with a total explosion of everything to hell is an excellent solution from the point of view of leading representatives of local law enforcement agencies.

You did not understand anything? The words “Elysium”, “Organes” and “Deponities” do not cause you any living associations? So you did not play in the first part of the series. Sadly. Because the developers clearly do not intend to arrange long introductory for players whose familiarization with the world begins from the second episode. This is stated in direct text in the miraculous mocking “Tutorial”, which is full of ironically rethought references to the events that happened earlier.

Change of scenery

The developers did not go along the road tangled with other questodela and settle the heroes in old locations with a frantic one familiar to the place. Despite the fact that the action takes place again on depot, this time a completely different part of it appears before us – the so -called floating black market. This place looks generally more fashionable than the town of Kuvak, from which Rufus tried to break out in the first part. The garbage is smaller, and in the upper part of the settlement there is even a real restaurant. Let them serve exclusively dishes from the platens.

The plaintos in this part of the depot is generally treated with great food. There is a closed club dedicated to love for awkward animals, fighting in plaintic costumes is also held – the best local way to resolve conflicts.

We wrote that garbage in the game was smaller. But don’t worry. Reserved corners with rusty pipes and dirty roofs are still here.

Very passive revolutionaries, a gang called “Inorganized Crime”, lady-maniac from a weapon store and … gondolier are also found here. Tournament battles are held in the “Stone-Bumag Stone”, in the shop of unusual gadgets the sputal and, perhaps, too emotional robot on the legs, and at the very top of all this Bedlam there was a noble and representative sigal, with which Rufus was once under very dramatic circumstances.

So in front of us seems to be the old kind deponi, which we have already managed to love-and at the same time a completely new set of delightful locations, where everything lives, blooms, smells, multiplies and is overgrown.

Take care of templates

Chaos on Deponia – This is a new level of balance, sorry for the pun, the forces of chaos and the strength of order. In the sense of the atmosphere of universal absurdity, it was not at all affected, but now our brains suffer from it slightly less. Not because the game has become “more casual” – by no means. Just authors from Daedalic Entertainment This time puzzles were very carefully thought out. Solutions are rarely standard. What is it there – they are almost never standard. But a certain logic in the actions of the hero is nevertheless traced.

And where logic does not help, there will be helped by dialogs, to which, as always in Daedalic, you need to listen in the most thorough way and look closely. Even in an empty, at first glance, praise Rufus, you can sometimes see a rational grain that can lead to a guess.

If the main character suddenly begins in a conversation to make a secretive ninja out of himself, being stained when trying to penetrate the base of unorganized criminals, so the Golden Dragon of invisibility will definitely be able to somehow help us to get around gangster guards. On the other hand, it would be foolish to think that it will be enough for us to go for a “dragon” to the gadgets store, so that it was calm to go to the shelter of the law under the cover of inconspicuousness later. The combination will certainly turn out to be elegant and multi -stage: the developers do not allow “providing” and banality under any circumstances.

Along with many crazy, but “split” riddles, the developers are no, no, and they will introduce a task that can not only tear the template-not to leave a wet place from the template. At one point, Rufus will complain about the too loud musical design in the market, because of which it is impossible to concentrate and remember the secret knock of revolutionaries. And we will need to do something incredibly simple, but at the same time so unusual that, we are sure that if textbooks on questology are ever released, this example of the archineshablane task will be included in such a manual as the most classic model.

Even the mini-games, which in Adventure usually turn out to be a creative interpretation of labyrinths, Sudoku, chess and other long-known fun, look completely different here. Nowhere else, probably, we will not see such a parody of the fighting valves that I showed us Daedalic. When the two in the costumes of the plaintos beat each other in pieces, similar to plush oars, this is epic. Especially considering that the battle takes place in step -by -step mode.

Yes, and the “Firewood-Littlebow”-a battle that cannot be borne by “real tournament fingers”-a gorgeous mockery of big sports. Mini-games, as always, can be missed.

Surge, set fire

However, it is known that we love Daedalic Not only and, perhaps, not so much for the smooth-shallow gameplay as for inexhaustible humor and stunningly living characters. IN Chaos on Deponia Each episode and every character “shoots”. The movement of revolutionaries, which is most striving to improve their methods in the direction of even more passive resistance, the unlucky Bozo, in love with the maniac from the weapons, a gentleman from the upper city, capable of expressing his needs exclusively with the help of notes, a cultural waiter in a restaurant who openly consult with his manual Kthulhu on the topic “The owner, the victim wants to order a table for two,what to do?” – everyone is important. Even if the character has no more than three replicas in stock, even when these replicas boils down to a meaningful urgent, like the criminal “authoritative” of Donna, you can confidently count on the fact that this character here will certainly give out a portion of the stack.

What is one scene with a fabric of the house of the grandmother of the Care at the very beginning. Rufus in the background, under our sensitive leadership, makes irreparable destruction on the terrain, and the mistress of the room, turning her back to all these disgraces, expresses fears about her eccentric guest. At the same time, the dock, who is still familiar to us by the first part, calms the nervous old woman: “No, Rufus has changed, now he is very careful”, which looks simply amazing against the background of the Lady of the Madam and her bird missing through the garbage sophisticated.

In fact, Chaos on Deponia It is so good in the dialog boxing sense that you want to literally disassemble it for quotes. If the player has a desire to apply objects for something only to hear what Rufus will soak this time, which means that Adventure was really successful. At least with regard to the text.

But the picture is not at all “a fuck”. Chaos on Deponia – Drawn quest in the best sense of this phrase. Each location lives and breathes. Small details like an automatic “face -contracting” nose at the entrance to Belwei or garbage crabs hung with all sorts of metal gizmos, a special charm informs what is happening. So even constant running from one area to another and back is not too annoying. Moreover, specially for such movements, the developers provided a floating black market with a card, which allows you to quickly go to another point.

Chaos on Deponia – an example of how you can and should be done by sequels. Game at Daedalic It turned out even better than the original Deponia – more fun, more original and at the same time “more passed” for albeit not wide, but at least slightly expanded masses. So, if someone suddenly was going to once again bury the drawn two-dimensional adventure, let him hear our indignant “f” and, before poked towards the quests, will first acquire real tournament fingers.

Pros: original plot;understandable, but unusual tasks;bright dialogs;live characters;Lovingly discharged locations.
Cons: Not detected.