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Nancy Drew Danger on Deception Island

Nancy Drew Danger on Deception Island

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Nancy Drew is sooo cool!
Review: Nancy Drew the secret of the scarlet hand is the 6th game. Int his mystery nancy will be going to a mayan museum to solve a case of stolen artifacts of the mayan culture. after each robbery a mysterious scarlet handprint was left behind. in this case nancy can ride in a subway, go to a hotel, a mueseum, and a mexican counsulate. i think it is sooo totally cool!!!!! i have all of the nancy drew games.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I Absoulutley Loved It! The Best Yet!
Review: This was my third Nancy Drew game (I have already played Secrets Can Kill, which I don't recommend, and Message In A Haunted Mansion, which I do recommend) and I was really excited to play it. Right off I was completely in love with this game. I t's so much! I love finding clues and trying to crack puzzles and codes. I played on the senior level, which was a little challenging, but challenging was exactly what I was looking for.This game also had lots of history to it, too. It was all based on Marie Antionette, the Queen Of France during the French Revolution. Being a history lover, this game was awesome. It had history, puzzles, code-cracking, mystery, and lots of fun. Play it, you will absoulutley love it!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: My Favorite
Review: I've played four of the six Nancy Drew games, and this is by far my favorite. I love the secretive characters and scary, thrilling and exciting adventures Nancy has throughout the game. And the end! Well I won't give too much away. This mystery is scary (my little brother hated the scary music :)) and challenging, but I like it because it's not so challenging that I almost never wanted to give up. But every time, just as I felt like quitting, I found another clue! As always Her Interactive has created a masterpiece. I can't wait until I have enough money for the newest one! I strongly recommend buying this game!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The greatest on yet!!!
Review: I just received it yesterday, and I would have to agree with the Herinteractive Team, it is the best yet. It is very challenging, the graphics are terrific, the story is great, and it is just plain fun. If you thought the last 5 games were good, I *Definately* recommend you buy this one. Visit www.herinteractive.com for more reviews, pictures, and information about the game.

Liz

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Not as good as TRT or MHM
Review: I found this game to be a big disappointment. There weren't enough puzzles and the game was too short. I also found the identity of the kidnapper to be painfully obvious from Day 1. It's worth buying if you're a huge fan of these games but I can't recommend it very highly to those who aren't.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good, but...
Review: This is the best game in this series and a pretty good game all around. It is educational and has no serious violence as some other computer games do. The graphics are also very good. I can't give the game five stars, however, for two reasons. One: The game did not take long enough to play. I finished it in about 6 or 7 hours when the package promised 20. And I played on senior level. Two: The game is really no fun after playing it once. I'd really recommend trying to rent the game or buying it used.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: ¿The Final Scene¿ a gripping thriller¿
Review: "Nancy Drew: The Final Scene" is the first Nancy Drew game I've had the pleasure to play. After reading so many positive reviews from Amazon.com customers and game magazines alike, I decided that I had to try it for myself. The main attraction of the game for me was the thought of exploring a (dilapidated) vaudeville theatre, a (virtual) pastime of mine.

"The Final Scene" bears many similarities to one of my all-time favourite games, 1994's "Are You Afraid Of The Dark: The Tale of Orpheo's Curse." Produced by now-extinct Viacom NewMedia, "The Tale of Orpheo's Curse" also took place in a condemned vaudeville theatre built in the early 1900s. Both "Orpheo's Curse" and "The Final Scene" draw heavily on magic tricks and lore. Both theatres are full of faded splendour and faded memories: black-and-white photos of visiting performers, elegant, now-tattered wallpaper, and secret passageways galore.

"The Final Scene" is gorgeous. Intricate attention to detail, such as spilled popcorn, the texture of a canvas backdrop, and plaster moldings in the lobby really capture the feel of the once-elegant (and fictious) Royal Palladium. Character models are realistic, with good lip-sync and facial expressions. Voice acting is above-average, and the music and sound effects really lend the game a spooky atmosphere: slow, sultry jazz trumpets, creepy organ music, ghostly laughter.

The game offers two levels of difficulty: Junior Detective and Senior Detective. The storyline is the same for both games, only the puzzles are harder as a Senior Dective. There is a nifty "Second Chance" feature that allows you to start over at the precise moment before you "died." And yes, there are a number of possible deaths facing Nancy if she doesn't solve the mystery or watch her step, including electrocution, a falling box, a falling spotlight, and most terrifying of all, a wrecking ball.

Detectives have to carefully gather clues and interrogate suspects. There are four in "The Final Scene" : Joseph Hughes, elderly caretaker of the theatre, Nicholas Falcone, activist with a criminal past, Simone Mueller, power-hungry agent, and Brady Armstrong, teenage heartthrob movie star. Nothing is as it seems, and everyone has some personal involvement in the Royal Palladium.

The game begins with Nancy and her friend Maya Nguyen, a student reporter, at the Royal Palladium for the premiere of Brady Armstrong's latest film, "Vanishing Destiny." An appropriate title as it turns out, for Maya vanishes from Brady's (empty) dressing room as Nancy stands outside, helpless.

There are plenty of delicious twists and turns, and like Fox Mulder from the X-Files, you must "trust no one." Nancy has three days to track down Maya and her kidnapper before the building is demolished. This includes snooping through personal belongings, making phone calls, and exploring hidden passageways. Nancy also gets to play with some fun equipment. There is plenty of humour, most of it sarcastic on Nancy's part. "What's the requests?" asks Nicholas Falcone, to which Nancy answers, "Don't you mean...what *are * the requests?" "What are you, my freshman English teacher?" he snaps back, then asks again, "What's the requests?"

The side characters are just as memorable, including a spunky 96-year-old Russian woman, Eustacia, with her cat food coupons, who tells Nancy to save her gratitude "for my funeral." There's also a librarian with an accent straight out of "Fargo," and a bored, Columbo-like detective. Nancy deals with magicians, including Houdini, and young detectives learn several magic tricks along the way.

This is a fun, gorgeous, highly addictive game that will keep your young detectives busy for hours. There are plenty of exciting twists and turns and nooks and crannies to explore, and "The Final Scene" is sure to be a crowd pleaser.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Too good to be true!
Review: This is the best Nancy Drew game made so far. You as Nancy Drew are staying at wickford castle home of Marie Antionettes tower (all the way from France). You meet Dexter, the care taker who has a dark secret of his own(while the owner is away),Lisa, the photojournalist with many secrets up her sleave, Proffeser Hotchkiss, Would do anything to to prove Marie's inocent, and Jaque, a very cute olympic siker but is there more to him then you see? I would suggest that you get it cause theres a lot of places to explore and you learn alot about Marie Antionette.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Great Game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This computer game, Nancy Drew Treasure In The Royal Tower, is my favorite computer game. It is totally action packed, and I would more than recommend it to ANYONE who loves mysteries and good problem solving puzzles. If possible, I would give this game a 10 out of 5 stars!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Nancy Drew: Final Scene, by HerInteractive
Review: This was an ok game. It wasn't as good as the other games I have played. It had a fun plot, but it got kind of boring as I continued to play it. The "3-Days" idea got a little annoying after a while. But, still this game pretty good.


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