However, his depressed state has left him unable to really do anything positive with his own life, up until he finds out that the world may be ending.
Sadwick is presented as the only sane person in a ridiculous world, where artistic or intellectual merit is always sacrificed for self-interest. Michaelis’ worked as a script and dialog writer for the title, and his influence can be felt far and wide, showing signs of his later work on Deponia and its absurdist commentary. Desperate to fight against fate and save the world, Sadwick goes on a journey to see the king with his pet caterpillar Spot and cure him of whatever illness he has to bring the dying world back to life, with an army of monsters hot on his trail. However, he currently has bigger worries on his mind, like a white orb with a mouth screaming at him in his dreams that he’ll bring an end to the world and later hearing a prophecy confirm that. You play as Sadwick, a depressed clown who hates his job and wants to do something more significant, like discuss philosophy or act in a play. It has become one of Daedalic’s major foundation builders, partly because of Michaelis’ involvement ( Edna & Harvey, Deponia), and partly because of the shockingly sincere and emotional thematic core that was rare from the studio at the time.
The game finally released in 2009 as one of their first in house releases, earning the 2009 German Game Developer Awards for best story and best German game of the year.
The unfinished version ended up becoming freeware, but 2007 had Daedalic pick up the license for the game and let Hüllen finish his baby. The Whispered World originally started life not at Daedalic, but as a 2004 academy project by one Marco Hüllen that was picked up by Bad Brain Entertainment, which unfortunately went under.
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