Basically, Michaelis strikes me as the sort of guy who looked at the hamster in the microwave joke in Maniac Mansion and decided that was the height of comedy (he is a LucasArts fan, so I wouldn’t be surprised).ĭeponia is the first of his works I’ve played through, and it’s a hell of a starting point. Michaelis’ dramatic work seems quite imaginative and thoughtful if heavy handed, but his comedic work takes the concept of “constant tone” and either pisses on it or smashes it into pieces with a sledgehammer. After playing Deponia, I buy that’s all accurate. I’m not that familiar with it myself (at least so far), but just a small read-up reveals that the games are filled with jokes about mental illness, child murder, and other such fun topics. He’s probably one of the more problematic minds working in the gaming world today, first making a name for himself with the university project Edna and Harvey, one of Daedalic’s first releases. I can’t deny that.ĭeponia was born from the mind of Jan Müller-Michaelis, the creative director of the Germanic game dev company Daedalic Entertainment. Yet that last game is quite possibly one of the best point and click games I have ever played.
#JUNK KNIGHTS IN DEPONIA DOOMSDAY SERIES#
There are few game series with highs so high or lows so low, a series of works I want to praise and recommend to everyone but most certainly can’t as I remember those awful, offensive lows. Using dark comedy as your window dressing for a four game narrative about the importance of balancing ambition with accepting finality is ridiculously difficult, and Daedalic Games actually tried pulling this off with what is effectively their most popular original series, Deponia.
Dark comedy is probably the most difficult comedy style of them all. The Deponia Doomsday section discusses transphobia briefly.Ĭomedy is difficult. Content Warning: The Goodbye Deponia section discusses sexual assault, child molestation, slavery, and racism.
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