Despite a shaky period with an awful attempt at turning Back To The Future into an adventure game, this year Telltale blessed us with The Walking Dead Game, likely the best adventure game in recent memory. It may even spell a resurgence for the genre, and with Double Fine Adventure and The Cave on the (admittedly distant) horizon, there’s certainly excitement building for the return of one of gaming’s most beloved and missed genres.
Edna and Harvey: Harvey’s New Eyes (HNE) is literally an offence to the genre. It’s a giant middle-finger salute to the hard work and brilliant creativity of the greats and it’s adding horribly to the growing number of shoddy, pathetic and worst of all apathetic adventure games that are giving genre-detractors fresh ammo on a weekly basis.
Rob Pitt writes: Daedalic Entertainment are among my favourite publishers (and sometimes developers) for classic point-and-click style games. From the brilliant, and often overlooked, Deponia series (which is now available in its entirety on modern consoles), to the deep and captivating Pillars of the Earth adaptation, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed every adventure game they’ve released.
So, when I saw that Edna & Harvey: Harvey’s New Eyes was heading to the PS4, I had to get my hands on it and try it out as it’s one of the few games from the publisher which I’ve yet to play.
Gareth writes: "Without doubt, this is a game that takes the crown for one of the strangest monikers of 2019. A point and click adventure from Daedalic Entertainment that was first released on PC in 2012, it's the sequel to another wonderfully titled affair Edna & Harvey: The Breakout. But what is it? Well, it’s Edna & Harvey: Harvey’s New Eyes on Xbox One."
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