Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion Game Review

I'm a person who's fasinated with the supernatural things. Not like bigfoot, and even if it was that, no I don't think that bigfoot exists. Anyway, I'm talking about ghosts. There are a few Nancy Drew video games that involve ghosts in a way, but this one was different. In newer Nancy Drew ghost games, the ghost or supernatural creature would usually jump out at you during an unexpected time, or maybe it was expected for some people, but like Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water's Edge, that one was creepy in some parts, and things would jump out at you. In Message in a Haunted Mansion nothing would jump out at you, but it was kind of creepy with the whispers that you would always hear, and the unexpected shadows walking down the halls. I know when I saw that one shadow that walked in front of the door downstairs made me jump a little. That stuff is creepy. I think this is a great game for ANYBODY, even the people who don't like Nancy Drew, I won't say the same for people who like point-and-click games though. This is a very old game and is probably the next on the discontinued list if not already, but I doubt it's discontinued already because I saw it at Target. Anyways Secrets Can Kill and Stay Tuned for Danger are already discontinued, and I actually got those games very recently, (You can see in one of my other posts. It has all the pictures.)but that was only because I won the only auction for the only brand-new unopened Nancy Drew 1st and 2nd original games that they were. I got Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion last year from Amazon, and just so you know you can't get the 1st and 2nd Nancy Drew games from Amazon, because before I won that auction on eBay for those games, we went to Amazon, sent in an order for the first Nancy Drew game, and the order was cancled because they apparentley didn't have it in stock. Why would they have it up on their website if they don't even carry it anymore. Well, enough of me rambling on and on about this stuff, basically, just buy the game!

Nancy Drew: The Final Scene Game Review

I thought Nancy Drew: The Final Scene was a good, well-thought game. Some aspects of the game I disliked, but this is probably just me. Now I know that this is an older Nancy Drew game, so the technology isn't as advanced as the Nancy Drew games today but, I don't think technology had anything to do with it. First, I'm a person that likes somewhat bright colors, like Alibi in Ashes. the color used in that game was pretty good, but the color that they used in The Final Scene was too dull. It was dark, like the grocery store Checkers. Sorry if you like Checkers, but I don't enjoy Checkers because the floors are grey, dark, and the walls are painted, but a dark color. The lighting makes the difference too. The lighting is dark, but that may just be the Checkers store nearby me. While we're on this store topic, let's talk about Target vs. Walmart. My favorite store ever since I was a little kid was Target, but just because I liked Target didn't mean that I didn't like Walmart. No, I don't like Walmart for other reasons, and I don't know those reasons, but I can assure you it's not because I love Target. Any way I'm obviously off topic so let's get back on topic. The topic of the title of this post. So anyway you heard what I said about the use of colors, but other than that I think it was a pretty okay game. The plot of the game made sense along with the setting. The characters were nice, nice meaning I liked the characters, not nice like that characteristics of the characters, because Simone was obviously not nice, and Brady was a little self-centured when we first met him. I would probably recommend this Nancy Drew game to someone, but keep in mind I'm probably going to say that in every Nancy Drew game review I do just because I'm such a Nancy Drew fanatic!

Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill Remastered Game Review

I really liked this game, almost like the original Nancy Drew game called Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill (1998). I understand why they would redo this game for obvious reasons. The animation on the original game were cartoons, and they redid it to have more of a life-like feature with the 3-D. Now I understand that it's a remastered version so they have to keep just about everything the same, except for the ending and the 3-D images. Here's the thing, they should of got rid of at least one hallway, with these hallways you always find yourself getting lost. I can honestly say that I've never gotten lost in the hallways of the game, but I just need to look at the setting of the game and I basically remember it from then on. I will admit though, that there were some parts of the game where as I go along in the halls, as I'm walking I always had to think hard and ahead of where I'm supposed to turn so I don't mess up. After you've played it a little longer it gets surprisingly easy to navigate through the hallways. So since this was kind of the game that started it all... kind of. I have to say I really enjoyed this game a lot, and would recommend it to other people.

Nancy Drew: Alibi in Ashes Game Review

Nancy Drew: Alibi in Ashes was probably one of the most Nancy Drew games that sounded exciting, and everybody could not wait for the release of this game. This game was very fun, but at the same time it was also a let down. The trailers for this game, and the box art made it look like you could actually meet, and see one of the characters, Ned, but really they just showed you a picture of him. You can see what his face looked liked on Nancy's phone, and on the cover of the box. So that was a big let down, but overall it was a pretty entertaining game. You got to see Bess and George's face for the second time, but they redid their face which I didn't really like. I however did like Bess's new face, but I really disliked George's face. It wasn't really as good of a face like they had in Nancy Drew: Ransom of Seven Ships, but that's just my opinion. Overall I really liked this particular game just because of the setting, plot, and the use of characters, although like I said before, they should of physically included Ned Nickerson.

Nancy Drew: Danger on Deception Island Game Review

I think Danger on Deception Island was a well thought through game. I had tons of fun playing it, and I think it's an enjoyable game for everybody who likes point-and-click games, and mysteries. If there was one thing I didn't really injoy that much, it would have to be clamming for Jenna. I think that took too long, and was a waste of time going back and forth, from one beach to another. They could have at least let you go clamming in which, you get all the clams you're supposed to get from one beach all at once, and the same thing for the other beach, other than one beach you're supposed to get 4, but instead you only get 2, so you have to travel to the next beach to get more clams, but not all of the clams are there! So then you have to travel beck to the other beach to get the remainig clams, and so on and so on. I liked the overall setting of the game, and the plot.

Nancy Drew: The Haunted Carousel Game Review

I think this game had a lot of color and was more bright than most Nancy Drew games. But, I guess if it takes place at an amusement park it needs to be bright and colorful. The plot was ok, but I liked the characters such as Harlan Bishop, and Elliott Chen. Joy Trent was an ok character. In the beginning Joy didn't seem, well, joyful. She seemed kind of (as Harlan Bishop said) joy-less and was talking about how her boss was probably the one who was doing all of the things to get more customers, and how she probably didn't know that the park would get shut down if she did those stunts. Elliott Chen was a pretty cool charcter, and when you talk to him about a subject like, carousels, he seemed pretty filled with knowledge of carousels. Harlan Bishop had that awesome heavy New Jersy accent. He seemed to have an interesting history.

Nancy Drew: Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake Game Review

I think Nancy Drew: Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake was an OK game. They could have added a little more mystery. I mean, nothing popped out at you, which is ok, but there was no suspense. For me, there was no time in the video game in where I was thinking "What's going to happen next". Maybe they did that intentionally (Is that how you spell that? I don't think so. Well, anyway hopefully you know what word I'm trying to spell out.) There was one part in that game in which some people probably started to scream or freak out. The ghost dogs part. That part probably scared a few people, not all, but some. The part where the ghost dogs just jump on the window and start barking, I liked that part, but I bet some people would disagree, but at the same time, some people would agree with me.