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September 27, 2007
Nancy Drew: The Deadly Secret of Olde World Park
I did indeed receive my Nancy Drew game before yesterday, so there will be no beheadings this week. I also FINISHED it before yesterday. The game was sitting on the doorstep waiting for me when I got home Monday afternoon (along with a box from Amazon containing two books and a CSI game for my pretty, pretty laptop, but those are stories for another day), so I tore into it like an impatient consumer and started playing right away. I put in about 45 minutes or so of gameplay before bedtime, but, like a nitwit, I forgot to, you know, SAVE the game before I turned off the DS, so I had to start from the beginning again on Tuesday when I picked it back up. In spite of that, I managed to finish the game before Mike got home from class Tuesday night.
The game itself was pretty fun, and Bess, George, and Nancy's dad interacted with her at some points in the game while Ned chauffeured Nancy around River Heights. While I enjoyed playing it, I think it's safe to say that this game was not made with 26-year-old women in mind as its target audience. It was a little too easy. Everyone I needed to talk to had an exclamation point over their head, everything I needed to look at had a magnifying glass hovering above it, and everywhere I needed to go was marked with a stick figure. Now, I appreciate my fair share of handholding, but this didn't feel like it left much of a challenge for me, and that was a little disappointing. I'm hoping that the upcoming CSI DS game proves to be more challenging.
Posted by oracle at September 27, 2007 7:37 AM in entertainment / playing / the fourth year