Edna & Harvey: The Breakout - 10th Anniversary Edition

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  • Summary: When Edna wakes up, she has no memories of her past. And though she hasn't the slightest idea how she ended up in a sanatorium cell, one thing is certain: She wants to get out of there!
    After all, she feels sane – and her talking plush bunny Harvey absolutely agrees. Together they make    When Edna wakes up, she has no memories of her past. And though she hasn't the slightest idea how she ended up in a sanatorium cell, one thing is certain: She wants to get out of there!
    After all, she feels sane – and her talking plush bunny Harvey absolutely agrees. Together they make their escape and meet the weirdest inmates – from a man in a bee costume to the pseudo-siamese twins. But Dr. Marcel, the head of the sanatorium does everything in his power to stop Edna. What is his endgame? And why has her memory been wiped? Bit by bit, Edna remembers the time before the sanatorium...     … Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. Impulsegamer
    Jul 13, 2020
    80
    The Anniversary Edition of Edna & Harvey: The Breakout is a massive success, bound to bring in new and old players alike. There’s a few things that don’t age well, but the charming graphics and simple gameplay is a huge accomplishment. If you love those classic comedic point-and-click puzzle games, you can’t look past this release.
  2. Softpedia
    Jul 1, 2020
    80
    Edna and Harvey: The Breakout Anniversary Edition is an ode to the classic games signed by Lucas Arts, which manages to feel fresh and up to date. The control scheme takes time to get used to, but it works. All in all, it is a successful remaster of a nonconformist game.
  3. Digital Chumps
    Jul 13, 2020
    73
    Overall, the gameplay design for Edna & Harvey: The Breakout – Anniversary Edition is clunky on a console controller and might give too much freedom for a point and click-based game. That said, the story is good enough to push beyond those issues, the puzzles are incredibly clever as they relate to the story, though enormously difficult to overcome at times. At the end of the day, the experience might well be worth the frustration the design causes.
  4. PlayStation Country
    Jun 17, 2020
    70
    Edna & Harvey - The Breakout: Anniversary Edition is a remaster of a 2008 game with a fresh new look, but very much a PC point and click adventure of the era. A few bugs don't help any.
  5. PlayStation LifeStyle
    Jun 29, 2020
    60
    Edna & Harvey: The Breakout – Anniversary Edition takes the much maligned English version of the much lauded German original and gives it a fresh coat of paint that feels right at home on modern consoles, yet still retains some of the original problems that kept it from joining the point-and-click pantheon of greats. It’s got a great new art style and a fantastically intuitive console interface, but never breaks out of a kind of plodding mediocrity that keeps it from moving up from being just okay to something better.
  6. GameCritics
    Jul 9, 2020
    60
    Whilst Edna & Harvey: The Breakout – Anniversary Edition does have some mechanical and design problems on top of the inconsistent tone and humor, I can’t say that I didn’t enjoy my time with it — the issues I had stem more from the genre as it was more than a decade ago, and the fact that I have lost patience for its foibles. However, for players who enjoy the classic flavor of the genre and its often-maddening conventions, this one is sure to satisfy.
  7. Finger Guns
    Aug 6, 2020
    60
    The Anniversary Edition is a much better looking version of the original Edna and Harvey – The Breakout. Despite updated visuals though, there’s still some wrinkles that haven’t been ironed out, notably with sound effects and animations. The move to controller support on consoles has been a little rough on the playability too. The core concept, narrative and personality of the game is quite ingenious but the backtracking, inconsistent lunacy and uniquity of some of the puzzles mean it’s sometimes tough to get through. You don’t have to be mad to play The Breakout, but it’d help.

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