Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Official Video Walkthrough Plans and a Little TMB Update

So I've made it official on what I'm doing. I was looking through some of my videos last night and this is what I've decided. After I finish Secret of the Scarlet Hand, I'm going to fix Message in a Haunted Mansion because the Firebird puzzle got cut off. Then I'm redoing Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake, Senior Mode this time of course. After that I think I'll redo The Haunted Carousel, because it should be senior mode, but instead it's junior mode, otherwise I wouldn't redo it. When I'm done with that I'm going to redo the Danger by Design demo, because of an important part of winning that demo. Yes, I realize that more people care about the whole game than the demo, but since I've already decided... Anyway once I upload the redo's I'll delete the original ones so I won't have multiples of the same walkthrough. For the demo, I'm just redoing that one, but I'm deleting the other demos so when I upload the Danger by Design demo, all the other demos will follow. It seems a little ridiculous, but I'm a picky person. I should be done in time to start the walkthrough for Tomb of the Lost Queen by then. I'll be preordering it, so I should get it a few days earlier before it's released to stores. If there's a gap between when I'm done with all this stuff that I've listed, and when I get Tomb of the Lost Queen, and it's a big enough gap, then I'll do the original Secrets Can Kill. If not, I'll just do it after I'm done with the walkthrough for Tomb of the Lost Queen, then the rest of the Nancy Drew games. I think this is a really good plan, but I really want your opinions. So, leave a comment below, or message me through YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, or Tumblr. The links for my Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr are on my YouTube page. Her Interactive just released a background picture for Tomb of the Lost Queen. It's not incredibly exciting, but at least it's something. One more thing, be watching out for a trailer for Tomb of the Lost Queen! By the way Her Interactive worded it, it sounds like the trailer will be released in not too long.

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Video Walkthrough Plans

I'm without a doubt finally uploading Part 3 of Secret of the Scarlet Hand. Maybe Part 4, but I haven't started editing that yet. I finally got around to editing Part 3 today, but at the last minute, right when I finished editing, I had to leave to go somewhere. After 4:00pm tomorrow (Chicago timezone) I'll review the video, make last minute changes, publish it to my computer, then I'll post it on YouTube. Also I decided on working on some notes for redoing Message in a Haunted Mansion, so it's not as slow at the ending, when I do the puzzle. Also, this time the puzzle won't get cut off. I'm also redoing Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake, because of something that got cut off in part 3. I still don't know how I'm going to do it. My plan on Message in a Haunted Mansion, was just to get the saved videos I keep on a disk, put it in movie maker, cut out the part that was messed up, replace that with the newly recorded part. and repost it on YouTube. So everything would be the same, except I would solve the Firebird puzzle faster, and you would be able to see the whole thing being solved. I might want to do something like that with Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake, where I just redo the messed up part, but the thing is, when I did that video, I was a rookie, not as good with the video recording process thing, so the quality isn't as good. I don't know, should I just do that, or redo the whole thing? I want your thoughts, so please tell me!

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Updates on Tomb of the Lost Queen!

The computer icon for Nancy Drew: Tomb of the Lost Queen has been revealed as seen below:

Also, Her Interactive has a Tomb of a lost Queen page up now, along with information and screenshots!

Monday, March 19, 2012

Re: Nancy Drew Sneak Peaks!!!

These pictures from my other post have actually been released to the public by the Her Interactive company themselves. Don't worry guys, I wouldn't post stuff that could possibly be fake. The thing is when you go to the Her Interactive website, they don't have it on the home page (I don't know why) they do have it on their Her Interactive blog, but it's not the amateur sleuth blog, it's the Dare to Play Blog. Sorry that I didn't back it up with the facts in the first place, I know now that with the new stuff that Her Interactive doesn't make incredibly public that I should probably back up. Also this is a blog that has the real Nancy Drew information from Her Interactive, it's not just a blog that takes information from other sites that could be fake.

Friday, March 16, 2012

Release Date of Nancy Drew: Tomb of the Lost Queen

So the box art of Nancy Drew: Tomb of the Lost Queen has been revealed and pre-orders start on April 3, 2012 and the release date of the new Nancy Drew game starts on May 8, 2012.

Nancy Drew: Tomb of the Lost Queen Box Art

The box art for Nancy Drew: Tomb of the Lost Queen has been revealed!

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Nancy Drew Sneak Peaks!!!

Just like Nancy Drew, I'm a sleuth, trying to find the truth!

So here's a photo of Nancy Drew: Tomb of the Lost Queen

And here's the new interface of the upcoming Nancy Drew games!

The Main Menu
The Difficulty Screen
The Option Screen

Sunday, March 11, 2012

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!

Monday, February 20, 2012

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!

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Nancy Drew Game Pictures

Here are the pictures that go along with the entry before this one... if you care:






















Here's the rest of my collection:

Monday, February 6, 2012

Guess What I got in the Mail?!?!?!?

Today in the mail I got Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill (The Original) and Nancy Drew: Stay Tuned For Danger, both brand new, never opened, and still in that brand new seal! I'm very excited and I'm including pictures of what it looked like after I pulled it out of the package in a later blog... maybe tomorrow.

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.

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Just Started

I've just started playing Nancy Drew: The Final Scene today for all of you guys waiting on me. Also, I'm 6 minutes and 28 seconds into it! Yay!

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Posted Blog???

I'm not sure what to blog about, so how about this. I bet most of you Nancy Drew fans have already seen the OFFICIAL COVER ART For the Nancy Drew Dossier, Nancy Drew: Ship of Shadows. If you haven't, here it is.
Sadly, this game is not in current production, instead it has been 'shelved' according to Her Interactive.