Humerous, heartwarming & suspenseful adventure – Edna & Harvey: The Breakout Review

Just finished the game and I absolutely loved it. The slightly unhinged Edna & her subconsciously animated and talking stuffed rabbit make a great duo. Both are very well voiced and grow on you as you play. The story has just enough mystery and suspense to keep you hooked and eager to see edna escape and discover the true nature of her incarceration at the mental hospital. It takes a surprisingly dark turn at the end but it makes it all the more emotionally compelling and interesting. The game itself is classic point and click adventure. The UI has been updated from the pc version, making the transition to the iPad faithfully yet improved. All options (use, talk to, pick up, etc.) are now mapped directly around the object your tapping on, making a faster and more friendly control interface. My only complaint is that using items requires you to open your bag, select an item,close your bag, then drag the item to whatever you want to use it on or combine with. Too many needless steps, but I got used to it. A tutorial in the beginning would have helped greatly as you are left to simply tap on things and figure it out yourself. Took me awhile to figure out how to do something as simple as using an item. As for the puzzles, most of them are fairly logical and are great fun to figure out. A few puzzles are downright evil and will almost require a walk through to solve. One was because of a cultural identifier, a "WC" or "Water Closet". In America we call it the bathroom, in Germany (where the game was made) it's "water closet". Why is this important? One puzzle requires you to make a guard who is watching a series of monitors feel the urgent need to use the bathroom. You do this by closely observing the monitors and realizing you can spell out the letters "WC" by turning the lights on and off in certain rooms throughout the facility so the monitors light up and spell out "WC". I NEVER would have solved that on my own simply because "WC" doesn't mean "bathroom" to me. None of this dampens the fun or the story too much. You'll meet a great cast of eccentric characters, plenty of off the wall humor and fourth wall breaking gags, and a surprisingly touching and emotionally moving story in the midst of it all. This is well worth the price, pick up the game and surprise yourself.
Review by Eudys on Edna & Harvey: The Breakout.