On encountering the very first non-white character in the game, one member of a mixed-race couple moving into a house, Rufus's only remark on looking at either is, "Huh, there goes the neighbourhood." I'm sure it wasn't meant specifically, but fuck me, how did no one flag it up as a problem?)
(On top deliberately insulting portions, the game is so astonishingly thoughtless. You know, so you can shave off the fake beard you stuck to a child's face and then got covered in bees.
#DEPONIA TRANSPHOBIA SERIES#
Rufus can insult her in a series of ways, but the key one is to point out that her legs are too hairy for her to be a woman (no, really), and then, through a convoluted and ludicrous sequence of puzzles that your brain would switch off if I tried to plot out, you get her some wax in exchange for her "ladyshave" electric razor. But HA HA HA! She's so hairy and manly, not like a lady one bit! This, we're asked to enjoy, means she's come to realise she's a woman. Cue Toni kicking the shit out of him for something, and his emerging from the bar in a pink dress, wig, and awkward make-up, clutching at his groin. There's a large, gruff, hairy character in a bar, who makes some remark about how, "You'd see me in a pink dress before I'd." etc. Instead, you're dragged down the obviously reductive well of shite that the writers seem to find so infinitely hilarious.Īlong the way you encounter a series of stereotypes for Rufus to insult, which leads to one particularly repellently transphobic sequence. Opportunities for clever time travel gags, or Bill & Ted style planning, are all ignored. The entire first act of the game is spent agonisingly repeating the same humourless or outright repulsive sequences and collecting the same inventory objects as you are forced to reverse time (at least) twice to find a way to prevent the glasses getting broken. Once he's come to terms with all of that, a time traveller shows up and breaks Rufus's original inexplicable girlfriend Toni's crystal glass collection. This, sadly, includes his eventual faux-noble sacrifice. Rufus wakes up and realises that the tales of his being some sort of clone, of working alongside two of his identical-looking nemeses, and of having a girlfriend literally called "Goal" who has a reprogrammable brain implant he programs to remove all the "bitch" from her personality, were all apparently a dream, or at least a vision of the future. Hard to find that particularly unhappy after suffering through three games with the repellent shit, but that's the background to this fourth entry. The three games ended on a purportedly unhappy ending that saw Rufus falling to his apparent death. It's a story about an unpleasant arsehole called Rufus, who lives on a trash planet that's about to be destroyed, and dreams of reaching the idyllic floating city of Elysium. The previous Deponia trilogy was an unpleasant point-and-click graphic adventure series of almost impressively diminishing returns, that descended ever further into embarrassing, tawdry, sexist and arguably racist crap. Even after concluding its trilogy with a fairly final ending, somehow the repulsive Rufus is back once more in Deponia Doomsday to insult, demean and spoil your time. The horrible Deponia series will not go away.
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