German developer Daedalic Entertainment recently released the game Edna Bricht Aus in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Releases in additional territories are about to follow and the english name is already set as Edna & Harvey: The Breakout; you can also have a look at the english version of the website. <!--break-->

Erm, right. But you know: talking with stuffed toy bunnys is not entirely new to us at GamersGlobal. We do that all the time in our imaginary office. These bunnys actually do know when Alan Wake is set to be released. They don't want to let us in on that topic yet, but we'll keep contact. With our diplomatic skills we are bound to find out more one day.

As crazy as the storyline of Edna Bricht Aus might sound and as ancient as it might look (you could call the system requirements ultra low end): the first ratings of the game speak for themselves anyway. German website www.gamigo.de calls it the new queen of the adventure genre and rewards it with the rating 9,9/10 while the website www.gamona.de thinks that Edna's adventures are worth a rating of 93% and three awards (Gold, Gameplay and Sound). I could go on to sum up further very good ratings here, but if you are a german-speaking reader of GamersGlobal just head for Daedalic's german website and find out for yourself; they have embedded links to all reviews currently available there.

What seems to strike the reviewers most is the detail and effort that the developers have put into making the game feel like an adventure of the olden days. Even the verb bar is back that many still might know, featuring verbs like look at, take, talk, use and through which you control the game. In modern adventures, those things are mostly done with clicking on the mouse with the left or the right button; in this case they aren't. The gameplay also seems to be without many flaws, always logical and never frustrating, although the general level of difficulty is set pretty high from the beginning on. The fact that it never gets frustrating or boring is not only linked to clever gameplay, but also to another feature of the game.

You probably still remember the sentence "I can't do that" from many adventures you've been playing. Especially when you were stuck and just tried to combine every single object in your inventory with each other you might have stumbled over this sentence a lot. And it might have gotten on your nerve. This apparently won't happen to you in Edna Bricht Aus, because you can to everything. Repeat: everything. If you want to talk to the bin: do so. Edna will do. After all, she's completely sane, you know? If you want to use a bottle of ketchup with furniture in a room although there is no use to it: no problem. Dialogue is implemented into the game for every single stupid thing you could ever think of; just imagine the effort that this must have been. And here's another good news: The voice acting seems to be no turn-off as well. Up to now everybody says that it is top-notch for every character in the game; especially for Mr. Droggelbecher who can only say his surname, but with many different intonations. Bless him.

We at GamersGlobal weren't able to play the game ourselves yet, no wonder with it being sold out at many stores at the moment. So we can only tell you what others think about it; and they seem pretty convinced it's good. But we'll let you in on our thoughts about it as soon as we can grab hold of it. Daedalic Entertainment are working on two more adventures currently: The Whispered World (PC) and A New Beginning (PC, Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii).

If you are a little crazy yourself, by the way, you could head to ebay because Daedalic Entertainment just started an auction which will end on June 20th. They are selling the licence and distributional rights of the game for the republic Vanuatu. But the distributional right is linked to you publishing the game completely translated (texts and voice-acting) into the language Bislama. Daedalic Entertainment will support you with a localization kit. Do you need any more proof that those guys definitely have a certain sense of humour? You will also get a signed version of the original game and a certificate, which you can get from the developer's office in Hamburg. If you go there, the devs will also invite you to a meal. The current highest offer is 131 Euro. That's only half the price of Rock Band in Europe, that is.

A shame I don't know Bislama. But probably one of my gifted stuffed toy bunnys does.