The star, Rufus, is a defiantly unlikable playable character, whose selfishness is his only motivation, and his offensiveness a source of glee to him alone. The Rock Paper Shotgun review of Goodbye Deponia called it 'a horrible game', with the reviewer absolutely loathing Rufus. And yet he's still portrayed as a relatively good guy because, convieniently, there's always immediate bigger threat around the corner. His relationship with Goal is abusive and manipulative at most times at one point you're forced to make her struck by a lightning just to finish a puzzle. His first action in Chaos on Deponia is sabotaging Goal's travel to the Elysium, thereby undoing one good deed he made in the first game, and he spends the rest of the trilogy leaving a massive trail of victims in his adventure to 'save' the Deponia (the most infamous one is, of course, splitting up a couple and selling a woman into slavery in Goodbye). A good number of players, however, don't share that opinion, instead seeing him as a straight, full-on Villain Protagonist. Designated Hero: Rufus being seen as a selfish Anti-Hero is an intended reaction.Unfazed, Rufus leaves the remaining (or surviving, depending how you interpret the events) little girl there, alone. but when Rufus returns, two of the children are missing and are never seen again. The monster, who had decided to become vegetarian, can barely contain itself from eating them, and eventually spits them out. unknowing to him, he places them in the mouth of a giant, child-eating slime monster, wraps them in burrito wraps to keep them warm and douses them in gravy. Rufus willingly leaves four young children (including an infant Goal) alone in the pipe forest of the sewers.According to the game's writer, this was meant as an Intended Audience Reaction to show how little Rufus takes into account what happens to others while he's trying to achieve his own personal goals due to his narrow minded nature, and the audience is meant to be uncomfortable at the fact Rufus' plans aren't always completely heroic like those of other adventure games protagonists. It is difficult to tell how intentional this was on Daedalic's part, especially since Goodbye Deponia has several Crosses the Line Twice moments, but at one point Rufus sells a young woman in what is basically debt slavery, as a 'dancing monkey' to a man who forces her to wear a revealing outfit.It's even lampshaded in the third game, where people explicitly turn to him for a Crazy Enough to Work last-second gambit.

Despite all odds, his recklessness and arrogance lead him to victory time after time.

Crazy Is Cool: Rufus continually does things that other people tell him are impossible and/or will kill him.

In fact, the ending of that game doesn't change anything in the last one. Deponia Doomsday's ending isn't much better.Over whether or not the conclusion of Goodbye Deponia was a satisfactory end for the trilogy (see below).It feels just as epic as this would imply.

The main menu theme of Deponia Doomsday takes the familiar narrator song instrumental and remixes it in an instrumental style reminiscent of Two Steps from Hell.For being so simple lyricwise, it's one hell of a Villain Song for the Organon race. The Organon Hymne, both the instrumental version that plays in the main menu and the absolutely triumphant chorus version heard at the end of Goodbye Deponia.Audience-Alienating Ending: Some players declared the ending of Goodbye Deponia enough to make the entire trilogy up to that point almost not worth playing, if this is the conclusion it all led to.

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