Even if it’s a bit outside my usual interests, it’s got a great look to it with full-on hand-painted backgrounds and some eye-catching character designs. Of these three, I’ve always meant to check out The First Tree - I’m all about games that let me play as an animal, and the scenery looks fantastic - yet I’m most intrigued by The Pillars of the Earth, which I’ve never seen before. Today through April 22, you can grab three freebies: The First Tree (a super pretty nature adventure game starring a fox), Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth (a 12th century England point-and-click adventure adaptation of the novel), and Deponia: The Complete Journey (a comedic adventure series). That said, if you’re in the free-game-hoarding habit, claim ’em all. It’s not that they’re bad, or should be skipped over, it’s just that they aren’t as high-profile as we’ve come to expect from these giveaways, and they aren’t particularly fresh, either, so you might’ve already tried them elsewhere. I’ll be frank here: you might not want to play all three of the free games this week on the Epic Games Store. It shouldn’t happen and hopefully they patch it.This week’s freebies are The First Tree, Deponia, and The Pillars of the Earth Not to say it’s still not annoying, it’s a pain in the ass to have to wait to get back into the game. It’s lucky the auto save is so often that I only usually lost about 5 minutes worth of work. In fact it crashed 7 times across my play through, often at the end of a sequence. The way the humour is baked into the story and puzzles I’m not sold that it’s some kind of error in translation. It’s made clear that Rufus is not a good person, but it doesn’t ever explain why others also make these bad jokes. It’s not about having to be politically correct, it’s about being better and not punching down. I know this is just a port of a game from a few years ago, but this series in its entirety came out in the 2010s. If any of these kinds of jokes are unpleasant to you then it is hard to recommend this game (or Goodbye Deponia for that matter). The racism isn’t as overt this time around, but there is still plenty of sexism and a really off joke in regards to disability. It’s a recurring character throughout the series, having limited memory of the first game I had forgotten this was an ongoing joke through the series. It tries to double down in a way that leaves the ending in a strange place, overall like with the ending of Goodbye Deponia it gets weirdly serious for a game based around the ridiculous.Īlmost straight off the bat Doomsday lowers the comedy bar with a transphobic joke, actually one of several as Rufus also mocks the character in question. This puts this game in a tricky spot, it struggles to justify its existence after the series ended by addressing the way Goodbye Deponia ended. While Rufus learnt some things about himself at the conclusion of the Deponia trilogy it doesn’t seem to matter here, he’s still unrelentingly Rufus. Whether intentional or entirely accidental, prepare to mess with time and space and generally be a dick to those around you. What follows is a time travelling adventure, as Rufus does what he does best and messes everything up around him. An earlier version of Rufus wakes up, and everything that has happened across the last 3 games were in his dream. After a glimpse into the future where Elysium has fallen and monsters called Fewlocks cover the land, an old grizzled Rufus detonates the bombs that blow apart Deponia. After the bummer ending of Goodbye Deponia, the follow up game asks what if it could be changed.
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