Deponia: The Complete Journey

As far as point-and-click games go, it is solid, mostly avoiding the pitfalls of pixel hunting and impossible to guess puzzles, which is impressive given the absurdity of the situations the characters end up in. It is however very buggy, mostly visual bugs but also some that interfere with gameplay. They can be worked around but it is frustrating. The protagonist is a complete sociopath and never gets better through the entire 20-40 hour experience, which gets to be exhausting more than funny quickly. Mild spoiler, but the ending seems to be tailor-made to ruin any positive memories you had by rendering the whole journey pointless. Luckily I was already driven to apathy by his sociopathy, but that's just two wrongs cancelling each other out, not anything positive. The ending alone is enough to make the whole series not worth playing for many people (of course you can only tell if you are one of those people by experiencing it yourself, but I wouldn't risk it).

Softlock bug

I don't know what people are talking about with the game-breaking bug in chapter one. I got by perfectly fine multiple times to get 100% on both this and the standalone version. On the Daedalic website, they posted a save game to bypass the magnet bug, so if you get to it and it doesn't work, there is still a way to progress! Even The Complete Journey is already 12 years old and there will probably not be a patch. It is still worth it if that is the only thing you need to do. The gymnastics required to get Gothic to run are way more intense! :D If you want to play all the games, I recommend getting The Complete Journey, as it is a "buy one, get them all" kind of deal. Droggelbecher!

The game itself is not bad, but... It's VERY annoying; From the characters, to the puzzles, to the music, to the (non existing) logic, everything was just annoying. I guess it's just not a game for everybody. Also, this "Complete Edition" has a lot of bugs, so it's annoying from a technical point of view as well.

A great series which was worth getting. (I'm still a bit sad i bought the full series a few days before seeing a 90% discount on every episode) [spoiler]However, the final ending was very disapointing, every episode was a build-up to rufus finally managing to reach his goal, but I think it's a nice conclusion and reminder that rufus understands that his fate is already sealed as Deponia cannot be escaped.[/spoiler]

This is the absolute peak of the genre and German humor. [i] Huzzah, Who's Gonna Care? [/i]