Goodbye Deponia

The third and final game in the Deponia adventure game series.   Spoilers within. In the first two Deponia games we met Rufus, a slightly twisted and mischievous fellow who wants to run away from home. There are running gags about how he has set fire to the city, destroyed property, and generally caused all kinds of havoc. Those two games were fun. Goodbye Deponia looked to be a fun game as well, but Rufus takes a much darker turn here. Rufus usually gets people to do things they shouldn’t do and like all characters in adventure games, steals everything…

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Deponia – Fun Adventure Game

Deponia is the story of lovable loser Rufus who is trapped on a junk planet and surrounded by people who seem both fond of him and sincere when they wish him well on his plans to leave the planet far behind him. Our hero has two women in his life, one is his ex-girlfriend who he still lives with and one is a tall and lovely woman who falls from the sky and spends the bulk of the game unconscious. Rufus meets a number of odd and interesting people who tend to get in the way of his reaching his…

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The Book of Unwritten Tales

The Book of Unwritten Tales is the best adventure game to come out since last year’s Gray Matter from Jane Jensen.  It’s another throw back to the glory days of Sierra Online and LucasArts point and click games. The Book of Unwritten Tales features great voice acting, beautiful graphics, and a story that is chock full of jokes, witty comments, and a brilliant cast of characters.  It has a lot in common with Gray Matter-you get to control more than one character, you can find all clickable items with a touch of the space-bar, and characters tend to hand invisible…

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Gray Matter by Jane Jensen

Gray Matter is a brilliant adventure game that has been about 8 years in the making.  There have been production problems with this video game by the great adventure game writer Jane Jensen.  Jane Jensen wrote a number of my favorite adventure games, including the Gaberial Knight games and King’s Quest VI.  One of my all time favorite game quotes is from King’s Quest VI-And then you have a pizza.  Hmm, maybe you had to be there. Gray Matter is the story of Sam Everett, street magician and poor goth girl, and David Styles, scarred widower and slightly mad scientist. …

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Dracula Origin

I grew up playing Infocom Text Adventure Games-these were great games. There was a bit of reading to do and you had to think and there was a lot of typing involved. Now adventure games are mainly of the floating hand variety-or more likely the floating multifunction cursor. Dracula Origin is a typical The Adventure Company computer game. The seemingly endless locations are beautifully rendered and often have photographic quality images. But the images, such as the one of Van Helsing standing in a ruined library, are mostly window dressing. So it can be a challenge at times to the…

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