Edna & Harvey is a great point&click adventure that is at times humorous at times serious, always charming and challenging enough to appeal to those with a bit more experience with the genre. The premise of the game is a lot of fun, making progress in the game is a lot of fun and even being stuck and not making any progress is fun since almost literally any possible action you may attempt generates a unique, relevant and quite often humorous response.

The story is serious enough to be affecting without ever being too serious. Most importantly it is a lot of fun. The ending is sort of predictable, but the way there is not and that is what really matters. The game is fairly long for it's genre and the fact that every action you try tends to result in a new (often funny) comment makes you want to try every possible action including senseless ones (they are the most fun) which makes the game last even longer. There are also lots of actions that have an effect on the world, such as scribbling on walls and doormats, but are not necessary to make progress in the game. This is very unusual in this sort of game and a highly welcome touch.

Graphics and voice acting are good and the music does a very good job at creating the right atmosphere.

Puzzles range from almost easy to not at all easy and are always logical. The game is challenging enough for experience players but the level of challenge may scare newcomers away. There are probably better places to start your adventure gamer career. However, if you are an experienced player this game comes with my warm recommendation.

This is a profound adventure game. It has the humour and wit of the Monkey Island series. But the plot is very serious, dark, and at times, mind-numbing. Edna, one of the title characters, is a patient in a mental hospital. She begins in a sparsely accoutred padded cell, and from there must break out and find out the truth behind the murder of a boy ten years ago...

The graphics make Escape from Monkey Island look technologically advanced. And at 5.5 GB it's not exactly a small game. But most of that 5 GB is taken up in sound files. When you interact with objects, or combine two objects together, you can get thousands of different responses, many of them quite funny. To quote Poki (the creator of the game): "30,000 lines in the first act..."

Playing through the game once (or watching the walkthrough the first time) is amazing unto itself, but playing the second time around (it's too good of a story to play through only ONCE) gives the witty commentary of Harvey and the words of Edna... wholly different meanings. This is a game I am glad I bought on sale - and which, if I had more money, I wouldn't mind buying at full price ($20 at the writing of this review) either.