The Breakout is one of the best point & click game I have ever played, and I played a lot of 'em ! I usually like my point & click adventure games pretty serious. I love Broken Sword 1 & 2, the Gabriel Knight series and The Dig. But The Breakout gets the "funny" part so well, I just couldn't not like it. It is probably the only adventure game where I actually LIKED the fact that you need to use verbs to interact with the environment as the amount of hidden jokes is staggering ! And they are actually good ! Edna is a very funny and endearing character and is part of what makes that game so enjoyable. The Breakout gets serious at times (we are talking about a crazy woman trying to escape from an asylum, after all) but it doesn't feel forced and the story bits are well told. And the puzzles... Man, the puzzles... This game does an amazing job at always steering you in the right direction, and the puzzles never feel dumb or guesswork. I have finished the entire game without using a playthrough and I almost never found myself clicking randomly, asking what I should do next. (There is a GENIUS puzzle involving surveillance screens that is just so good.) In short, if you are even remotely interested in point & click games, you absolutely NEED to play Edna & Harvey: The Breakout. It is pretty looking, charming, funny and just a damn good game.
