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An adventure [[Interactive Movie]] video game produced by [[Digital Pictures]] and released for [[Sega CD]], [[Sega Saturn]] and PC. The game has a similar format to their earlier game
The game takes place in a large and old apartment complex called the Edward Arms where a young man named Eddie has been locked in the basement, and needs your help to get him out. Of course, once you get him out, the fun begins....
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* [[Ax Crazy]]:
* [[Benevolent Architecture]]: Eddie tells you at the beginning that he designed the entire security system with traps around the apartment
* [[Big No]]:
* [[Cliff Hanger]]: {{spoiler|Eddie presumably snatches the Egyptian statue and causes the vault containing treasure to be sealed again
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: {{spoiler|Eddie}} loves his mother very much, possibly to [[Oedipus Complex]] levels.
* [[Game Over Man]]: Some of the [[Game Over]] sequences have Lyle the Handyman (played by [[R. Lee Ermey]]) take this role.▼
* [[Genre Savvy]]: After being attacked by a mummy who turned out to be {{spoiler|Eddie}} a few times, three people hurry to Brutus's room. Why? Because they decided that they need a gun to shoot their attacker, and since they know Brutus has had dealings with the Mafia, they figure who better to come to for a gun? They didn't get a gun, but at least they tried, didn't they?▼
* [[G-Rated Sex]]: There's one scene where Lyle and Elizabeth have sex. You don't actually see it, but it is strongly implied to have occurred between them.
▲* [[Game Over Man]]: Some of the [[Game Over]] sequences have Lyle the Handyman (played by [[R. Lee Ermey]]) take this role.
▲* [[Genre Savvy]]: After being attacked by a mummy who turned out to be
* [[Hero Antagonist]]: Lyle the Handyman is definitely this.
* [[Intrepid Reporter]]: Alex is very much this. She ends up getting a story, and then some!
* [[Lady in Red]]: Elizabeth, the apartment manager, is very much this.
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]:
* [[Madwoman in the Attic]]: It is revealed in the game that {{spoiler|Eddie was locked in the apartment building basement by his own father
* [[Mama Didn't Raise No Criminal]]:
* [[Meaningful Name]]: "Brutus" is a Latin name that can be interpreted as "brute" or "stupid". The character himself proves to be pretty stupid in some ways.
* [[Oedipus Complex]]: {{spoiler|Eddie}} gives off very strong vibes of this
* [[Properly Paranoid]]: Eddie set up traps all the building out of apparent paranoia.
* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]:
* [[Scooby-Doo Hoax]]: Roughly around the middle of the game, an Egyptian mummy runs around trying to trap and/or kill people.
* [[Stating the Simple Solution]]: At the end of the game, Lyle has
* [[Take That]]: "Tell Mario and Luigi their days are numbered!"
* [[Trap Door]]: A number of the traps are essentially this, but some of them are a little more complex than that.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: {{spoiler|Eddie}} is revealed to be this later on.
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Early on, Eddie needs your help to escape the basement he's trapped in.
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