Edna & Harvey: The Breakout: Difference between revisions

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'''Harvey''': Who cares? [[Pyromaniac|Let’s burn something!]]|''— The German cover''}}

Edna Konrad [[You Wake Up in A Room|wakes up in a padded room]]. She doesn’t remember how she got there — in fact, [[Laser Guided Amnesia|she doesn’t remember much of anything]] — but she knows that she is being wrongfully imprisioned. After all, she is completely sane — a fact to which [[Consulting Mister Puppet|her talking rag doll rabbit]], [[Harvey]], can attest. Harvey has another remarkable ability: When he is shown things that remind him of Edna’s childhood, he can “tempomorph” her into the past — or rather, her recollection of the past — where she not only finds out about her life before the stay at the asylum, but also (re-)learns abilities that help her escape from the asylum.

Edna Konrad [[You Wake Up in A Room|wakes up in a padded room]]. She doesn’t remember how she got there — in fact, [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|she doesn’t remember much of anything]] — but she knows that she is being wrongfully imprisioned. After all, she is completely sane — a fact to which [[Consulting Mister Puppet|her talking rag doll rabbit]], [[Harvey]], can attest. Harvey has another remarkable ability: When he is shown things that remind him of Edna’s childhood, he can “tempomorph” her into the past — or rather, her recollection of the past — where she not only finds out about her life before the stay at the asylum, but also (re-)learns abilities that help her escape from the asylum.

This is the basic premise of ''Edna & Harvey: The Breakout'' (''Edna bricht aus'' in the original German release), a 2008 low-budget [[Adventure Game]] (though it didn’t come out in the US and UK until 2011) that started life as a dissertation on the topic ''The Computer Game as a Non-Linear Narrative Form''. Despite its 2D graphics and classic verb interface, it turned out to be a huge hit and won many awards.

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* [[Adventure Game]]

* [[Air Vent Passageway]]

* [[Art Shift]]: The portraits in the [[Where Are They Now Epilogue]] are drawn in a much more realistic style than the rest of the game.

* [[Art Shift]]: The portraits in the [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] are drawn in a much more realistic style than the rest of the game.

* [[Art Style Dissonance]]

* [[Author Insertion]]: One of the patients is a game designer who went crazy when he tried to make a classical point-and-click adventure in a matter of months with only a handful of co-workers, drawing more than one hundred backgrounds and all the animations while at the same time writing his dissertation.

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** To name a few…

*** It’s particularly sad that some other translations (like French and Italian) are based on the flawed English one rather than the German original.

* [[~~Brainina~~ Jar]]: Bobo

* [[Brain In A Jar]]: Bobo

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Happens occasionally.

* [[Brick Joke]]: The epilogue to one of the endings explains that, after breaking out, Hoti became a bank robber who turned himself in after accidentally shooting a bank teller. The epilogue of the other ending says that Moti returned to the asylum and was released shortly after because he no longer suffered from the delusion of being Hoti’s siamese twin. He accepted a job as a bank teller and was shot on his second day.

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* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]]

* [[Large Ham]]: King Adrian, particularly in the German version.

* [[Laser Guided Amnesia]]

* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]

* [[Mind Screw]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in the [[Where Are They Now Epilogue]].

* [[Mind Screw]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in the [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]].

* [[Missing Mom]]: Edna doesn’t seem to have a mother, a fact that is important to the plot but never brought up or explained.

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{{quote| ''“I have the […] feeling that time has slowed down while we were talking.”''}}

* [[Tomato in The Mirror]]: {{spoiler|After having escaped from the asylum, Edna tries to prove that her father did not kill Dr. Marcel’s son. And succeeds — by finding out that she did.}}

* [[Trauma Induced Amnesia]]: While Edna’s amnesia is mostly [[Laser Guided Amnesia|laser-guided]], one specific memory is suppressed due to a trauma.

* [[Trauma Induced Amnesia]]: While Edna’s amnesia is mostly [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|laser-guided]], one specific memory is suppressed due to a trauma.

* [[Twist Ending]]

* [[Updated Rerelease]]: An optimized special edition playable in both German and English and with 18 unlockable achievements and audio commentary has been released.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: One flashback and accompanying ability were cut from the final game: The graffito of Dr. Marcel in the basement was originally meant to remind Harvey of the time Edna learned to moonwalk — from Michael Jackson himself (who, apparently, was a talented graffiti artist, hence the connection). This ability would have been used later to sneak to Bladder’s van. However, since there was no way ensure the player finds the hotspot, this may have rendered the game potentially [[Unwinnable]], so it was scrapped.

* [[Where Are They Now Epilogue]]

* [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]]

* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield]]: Looking at a globe, Edna asks Harvey what country they live in, which is a very good question considering that it is [[You Fail Law Forever|a German-speaking country in which the death penalty is legal]].

* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]]: Looking at a globe, Edna asks Harvey what country they live in, which is a very good question considering that it is [[You Fail Law Forever|a German-speaking country in which the death penalty is legal]].

* [[Widget Series]]: This is a Weird German Thing, after all.

* [[You Wake Up in A Room]]

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