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.