Edna & Harvey: The Breakout – Anniversary Edition in the Test
Now you have done it again! Edna and her blue stuffed rabbit Harvey are loose Institute of new from the nerves healing. Daedalic Entertainment – the developers of the Point-and-Click Adventure game series Deponia (2012-2016) and The Whispered World (2009) – with Edna & Harvey: The Breakout – Anniversary Edition of her debut work , Edna breaks out (2008), a good ten years after its original Release, with the occasion of the Remake wisely. And this has it all: The Adventure was not only overtaken graphically the General – which means in this case that the backgrounds and Sprites have been completely redrawn, but also the game mechanics has undergone a makeover and, on this occasion, with some modern comfort features. As the Road Trip makes in the now soon second-to-last decade, even without new game content, twice as much fun.
Toe nail biting for Advanced
Edna is bloßfüßig – in a white wing shirt, the dressed, as soon as you turn us back, again and again unfavorable views of her pink underwear – free in a white, padded rubber room, equipped with table and chairs. But how she ended up there and where is this “There” anyway? Questions, questions. Luckily, you have a Harvey stands to the side: the true blue plush Bunny with Terry teeth velvet a tendency to dry Humor and also agree with all of those objects, with which Edna begins a conversation. But the talkative stuffed animal – the self is just a Manifestation of your own subconscious can help your mind with his cryptic past references firstly, not right on the jumps. It soon becomes clear, however, that Edna, the rhubarb hates compote is as passionate as the mid-80s-TV-flagship-ALF the Alien, the involuntary patient is in an asylum. The same is headed by the father of a childhood acquaintance, Dr. Marcell, whose megalomania is certainly due to the fact imagine that he commissioned a Portrait of himself in a row with Freud and Jung in his Sanatorium has to hang up. In addition, a Lot seems to be lazy in the Sanatorium, which is not reflected in the prevailing tone, the Edna’s supervisors to her cares. But these mysteries to pursue, it is first of all, the padded cell to escape. The meticulous Search of this makes us a detachable chair-leg catch, with the help of which we place the shaft of an air-conditioning free, but fixed by a grid. A look at the screws triggers in Edna as a result of a chain of associations, which allows us to travel along with Harvey in Edna’s early childhood memories, to learn the art of self-liberation by means of abgekauter toenails. Two things are already very clear early on: Edna & Harvey: The Breakout – Anniversary Edition saves not with abstrusem Humor with a keen sense of pop-cultural references, but also a narrative of the complexity of the virtual day within the Point-and-Click genre is without equal.
With Edna and Harvey on the run
In this manner, we are puzzles to us through the Sanatorium, adjacent areas, and Edna’s past. In different places and at different times, we search for the 2D-Screen cut-outs for new Clues and possibilities for interaction, inspect objects, collect, and use the same and even have the opportunity to speak with you. Usually you reply to Edna, too. This is Harvey, a jump, the borrows of the inanimate in his voice. In the end, so Edna is talking, now, about detours, new with itself. Because, as we have already explained, Harvey is simply an expression of your Imagination, whereby the conversations with the other items of the game to get to the double Reflection of Edna’s Subconscious. A true hall of mirrors, but funny Abstrusitäten is the result. The the above-mentioned objects but not of it, not to give us valuable information, which contribute rarely to the solution of one of the many puzzles, in any case, however, well entertained. We are on our explorations of sanatorium right. This is not linear and gives us the ability to search on three different floors and the premises for ways to bust out of the building. So we find, for example, a spoon, a Patient of the house trying to dig a way out, first of all, via numerous detours in the in-house Bar lands. But the bartender wants all to be convinced to give us the rare Good. Not cigarettes, but spoon seem to be in Dr Marcells Sanatorium the most sought-after currency display. Given the vastness of the mystery and freedom in the exploration of the nerve healing can be institution once – especially after long breaks from playing, lose track of. This leaves Edna & Harvey: The Breakout – Anniversary Edition , however, always challenging what the game is a spiritual successor to the classic Point-and-Click Adventures of the 90s, making as Quick Time Events as the primary Gameplay Element is still not part of the genre.
What a difference ten years make
The unexpected hit of Edna breaks out, the Daedalic Entertainment almost overnight – at least in the German-speaking area – great visibility helped, had his first appearance in 2008, especially with two things to fight: an outdated technology and outdated Mechanics. The backgrounds and Sprites were all Hand drawn and then scanned in and colored. In the case of all of the expressed creativity of the participating heads could see it in the game its Status as a debut work, and especially study the completion of the project significantly. A Legion of Bugs that were initially eliminated primarily by the Community, before the Fixes made were included in an official Patch by the developer joined. And also the operation of the game by means of on the bottom of the screen listed the verbs – based on the early Lucas Arts classics and the exclusive interaction with collected items in and out of the inventory, was cumbersome and not very intuitive.
All of these children’s diseases have been with Edna & Harvey: The Breakout – Anniversary Edition successfully eradicated. The game shines in a completely new Look, all the backgrounds and Sprites have been redrawn, and the original 4:3 on a 16:9 Format. This Shine is misleading the house and the surrounding area in a considerable wealth of detail with loving, albeit reduced, characters, style, and, not least, the Käpt’n Blaubär-Einspieler from the program with the mouse (and the little elephant, so much time needs to be) remember. Everything seems all of a piece, and that it is not always immediately evident, in which things are interactive objects, and which are merely part of the background texture. For this reason, it is very welcome that the developers have implemented a convenience function, objects can interact by pressing the spacebar to highlight – because Point-and-Click Adventures are finally no hidden objects!
The new graphic splendor
The Overhaul of the game mechanics was good for the Point-and-Click Adventure as well. Forget the times of the Fade-control; right mouse button now allows us, the objects of an in-depth consideration to to let us so on the part of Edna to tell what she sees. We hold, in turn, the left mouse button, a radial menu opens now with icons, which replaced the original control by means of verbs. About the icons of the menus we can talk to people and objects, different Items to use, or to record again in their inspection. At the lower right edge of the screen, we can be connected by clicking on one of the two arrow keys through the menu to scroll, which results in the further course of the adventure, however, lengthy click, intermezzi, because Edna does not ends up with everything nailed down or fixed with the background graphic is. At the push of a button can also be simply the entire inventory open and the collected Items to the full survey and selected directly. In the inventory of the selected object is then displayed in the radial menu in the top segment of the loop and allows us, with the same within the game world to interact. We select about Harvey, so we can interrogate the cuddly bunnies for Clues about an object or a Person. Daedalic Entertainment has Edna & Harvey: The Breakout – Anniversary Edition in addition, for all lovers of the original the original 4:3 Version of the game Edna breaks out (2008) settled. A very beautiful thing! Was removed, however, the developer commentary by Jan “Poki” Müller-Michaelis, the original author, Illustrator, Animator, programmer and scribes of the game, whose diploma thesis is the occasion for the emergence of Edna breaks out of was. Appropriately, the music that resonates for me between Elevator music and more Intrusive, acting tootling back and forth, also remains.
The patients of the house
The biggest strength of the game is the Humor the same, which is celebrated in countless dialogues, however. So we meet characters in addition to the numerous pop culture references, countless memorable and situations. In this score suggests a self-help group for video game programmer in the Team of Daedalic Entertainment’s self immortalized. Elsewhere, we encounter the Alumann, has made it a task to keep up with its coat hooks on the lookout for holes in the Chi. For those who want Edna’s, which is why he’s doing this, think of this only-dry: “You can’t run with a holed Chi around. At the end of the whole Ying still Yang and then we have the Fengshui.“ In the Studio of the bee-man again, a man is slack high Wire, on which the General key of the sanatorium depends. The escape seems to be successful, but Edna refuses to take the same to destroy this work of art. At the same time, she feels from the art installation, however, mocked, because of the conclusions of locke in the end, what you get angry again, which makes it part of the work of art will finally. The riddle character of the work of art on a bizarre point! Harvey’s warning that the player will have no understanding of, acknowledged, Edna with the words: “If you understand everything here, not to him anyway to help.” Indeed! This is not staged, only extremely charming and written, but it also has a rarely achieved situation Comedy, the light in 2019 and probably will long be, in addition, continues unabated. In addition, the dialogues are delivered with a seriousness that makes me a rule, not on the patients of the sanatorium, but laugh with them, and this is not an easy thing in view of the underlying matter. That part at the same time, the cliché of the obviously repressive structured clinical psychiatry is reproduced, thereby greatly perfidere structures of power and gap to be concealed, can be given, however, to get over.
CONCLUSION
Daedalic Entertainment is there with Edna & Harvey: The Breakout – Anniversary Edition managed your already in the Original, great first novel , Edna breaks out (in 2008) to a high gloss Polish. Children’s diseases such as annoying Bugs, and a little bit of intuitive Verb-control have been eliminated, and also the already outdated graphics has been fundamentally revised: backgrounds and Sprites have been redrawn, and in a 16:9 Format. Additional content the developers have the Anniversary Edition , however, omitted; on the contrary, the original developer comment has been removed, as for me personally, given the quality of the rest of the improvements of the game but also not bothering. Humor and puzzle design remain at the highest level and drag me along with the many amiable characters, by the spell of this now over ten year old game, the one not looking at his age now. Who is the Original knows, can now to a more contemporary graphics and catchier control delight; who Edna breaks out , however, not yet played, and Point-and-Click Adventures estimates, now has a duty to wish for the letter to the Christ child.
What is Edna & Harvey: The Breakout – Anniversary Edition? The Remake of the 2008 appeared the first Point-and-Click Adventures of the German Studios Daedalic EntertainmentPlatforms: PC
Tested: on PC Intel Core i5-6600K, 4x 3.5 GHz, 16 GB RAM, AMD Radeon R9 Fury
Developer / Publisher: Daedalic Entertainment/ Daedalic Entertainment
Release: 04. December 2019
Link: Official Website
