Posted on: September 30, 2022
KamikazeMatrix26Juni
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A bad game, but an amazing adventure!
I discovered this game in like January 2018 and was intrigued by the art style and setting. Four years later, this is probably among my top three games of all time - and that is saying a lot, since I only ever played it once and in a way, it's a bad game. Before the update coinciding with the 10th Aniv. edition, "Edna bricht aus" as its known in its native language (which I played and you should play too if you speak German; the performances are amazing!) was a technical nightmare. A Java game that warned you about performance problems if you run it in window mode. It also ran in 16-Bit, meaning if you somehow switched colour depth through running another programm, the game window turned white. Yes! Frequent crashes too. Now, that is all fixed, but what remains is the fact that EBA is really not a point-and-click-adventure for newcomers, with a lot of solutions being seemingly impossible to figure out even with hours of trial-and-error. I don't want to spoil anything, but the game itself eludes to this fact mockingly in a few of the well-placed 4th wall breaks. All that being said, I love this game! "trying everything with everything" was fun and rewarding for the amazing dialogue and humor from Edna and Harvey, with the voice-acting in native German being surprisingly memorable. (All voice-actors are professionals except for "the Yuppie", which shows.) This game oozes with something games nowadays rarely have: personality, dedication and passion. The art style might be childish, but I really liked it, with it reminding me of some of the educational games we used to play at Grundschule. It's unique. The only criticism of the game that I even would have is that the themes of Mental Health are somewhat lackluster. The game was released in 2009, but still, I would have appreciated characters in the asylum being more than sterotypes.
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