Critical Gamer writes: Despite waking up in the padded room of an asylum, Edna is sure she isn’t crazy and Harvey (her talking stuffed toy) agrees with her. The scene is set for Edna & Harvey: The Breakout, a point and click adventure game created by Germany based developer Daedalic Entertainment and originally released in several other countries that has finally seen an English translation.
Following the more traditional style of the point and click genre, the game offers up action buttons to dictate whether Edna will use, pick up, look at or talk to any object or person within the game, though the shortcut of right clicking to do the most obvious thing also exists. Interaction never goes beyond these boundaries save for occasional time-based actions being required in certain situations as you explore the 120 rooms.
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The award-winning cult adventure Edna & Harvey: The Breakout from Daedalic Entertainment will conquer the iPad at the beginning of August 2012. The surprise 2008 hit received numerous awards (Winner of the 2009 Red Dot Design Award among others) and is one of the most successful adventures of the last ten years.
With the conversion for the mobile platform, the classic point & click adventure becomes a point & touch adventure and, along with its unique comic style – which is not only completely hand-drawn, but also lovingly rendered completely in 2D – will also bring its own, extremely twisted sense of humor to the Apple device.
At the beginning, young Edna wakes up in the padded cell of an insane asylum with no memory of her past. She doesn’t have the slightest idea how she wound up there, but one thing is for sure, she wants out! After all, she feels perfectly sane – and her talking stuffed bunny Harvey agrees completely. Together, they attempt an escape and, in doing so, m...
Germany really seems to be standing up for the point and click adventure. With varying results. At the shinier end is Deck13's Ankh, but more often by the time they're in the English-speaking hands the humour is completely lost by poor translations and localisation. Nevermind the crappy puzzle design that's currently endemic throughout the genre.
So, is there hope on the horizon from German developers Daedalic Entertainment? They've got not seventy, not minus six hundred, but three new point-n-clickers due over the next couple of years.
