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Please don't look at this review as negative, I would rather rate my review as neutral but steam does not allow that.

This is another game from Vanripper, guy who made really beautiful Helltaker, that give him instant popularity on the release, mostly because of beautiful art, but also because of solid gameplay for free game.

This game is also free and art is as beautiful as ever, character design and sprites are really gorgeous. Menu is really good too, I've stuck a couple of minutes after the start just looking at the art. As would say most of the people would play Vanripper's games moslty for his artwork.
Music for this game was made by Mittsies, and it also solid, you can stuck listening to it in the menu or during the level, so also, no issues here.

My main issue with the game is the gameplay itself - during the game you are tasked with keeping level generators repaired while being hunted by the ghost. It starts ok for few first levels, but after some point you notice that game is somewhat random.
On normal difficulty you get drone that will save you from hit once and then will charge for 10 seconds. But problem is that even with drone on normal last level itself is a huge difficulty spike while second half of the game on hard is just pure luck.
You will get swarmed by ghosts, you will be hit by random projectile that you haven't seen, you will be hit by environment that decided to spawn projectile while you were dodging ghost next to it or on the last level game will throw so much stuff at you that half of the time you would die to a thing that you haven't noticed.

And that is my problem with the game - you have to track which generator you need to repair, you need to plan which resources you need to grab or assemble to repair it, all while dodging ghosts, environment hazards and random projectiles. Sometimes because of the green lights or a lot of stuff at one place you just don't see the threat or sometimes you will be hit in the middle of trying to path your way to the generators.

Some would say that this is part of the challenge of the game and I just have to get good, but my problem is that game would be much more bearable if it had better sound cues. Right not over level music you can't make out most effects but even if you disable it then you won't get much help either. Environment hazards sounds do not feel synchronized, you can't catch their tempo and their sound is extremely bland so while dodging ghost you can't hear cue that you will be hit by lighting from the generator in the next second. Ghost have telegraphed attacks but they also have poor attack cues, so most of the time you hear them after you was hit by the attack already.

Game on normal if fun experience that you need to check out for Vanrippers art, except for the last level, which felt like it's pure RNG. Game on hard is soul crushing experience that just feels unfair compare to challenging games like Furi, Celeste or Necrodancer. I've played 4 hours and while playing hard I didn't have a single moment where game would "click" with me so I would know how to complete the level without issues and can repeat it a couple of times.
If Vanripper will rework the game so hard difficulty would feel more fair then I will change the review.
Right now I would recommend you to complete in on Normal but try Hard only if you have a lot of time to restart the levels for best RNG.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ devs

Live service games were a joke.

This game is perfect if you like adrenaline rushes.

Депония - отличная серия квестов, с с неплохими головоломками, харизматичным главным героем, и вроде бы отличным сюжетом, но...
*далее возможны спойлеры*
Не проходите последнюю часть до самого конца. Просто выключите игру на моменте с Гоал, застрявшим ротором и тремя Клитусами. Лучше додумайте остальное сами, не нужно ознакамливаться с тем, что написал сценарист. Этот парень во время написания концовки был пьян, его бросила жена/девушка/умерла мать, из-за чего он решил завязать с серией и просто всё слил. Ладно, я мог бы простить его и успокоиться, если бы Даедалик планировали продолжение, но нет. Goodbye Deponia это последняя часть трилогии, и даже сами разработчики пишут: "Простите, парни, мы понимаем, что вам не нравится концовка, но допиливать мы ничего не будем. Делать новую часть - тоже". Поэтому просто не проходите её до конца. Если вам понравились предыдущие две части - вам будет очень неприятно.
Так же неприятно, как и мне.