The characters are mere 2-D cartoons and not particularly expressive which, in this game, is particularly problematic considering none of the suspects have any personality surprisingly, the victim – Jake – is the most interesting one of the lot despite never making an appearance on-screen. There’s the disc switching (one disc to visit the school, another to visit everywhere else) and the constant mouse-clicking in order to navigate through each of the locations.
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For one, Secrets Can Kill (1998) has the worst graphics and controls in the series and, unfortunately, it does impact quite significantly on this game’s functionality. I think the most apt description for this game is clunky. While it initially seems like an unfortunate accident, it soon transpires that Jake was involved in a complex web of blackmail, drugs and extortion. The game which started the series, Secrets Can Kill focuses on the murder of High School student, Jake Rogers. #29 Secrets Can Kill (1998)/Secrets Can Kill Remastered (2010) Creature of Kapu Cave is honestly the only game in the series which I can actually say I regretted spending money on. This is one of the few games of the series which I really recommend giving a skip unless you’re a dedicated fan. Yet, you can’t blame them for it considering you’d have to be a mind-reader to guess this game’s surprising mess of an ending. Even then though, it never really feels like Nancy or the Hardy Boys are reaching any kind of resolution to the mystery/ies. There are about fifty mysteries which range from who trashed Dr Kim’s camp to who knocked out Joe Hardy to who is responsible for the failing pineapple crop and a growing swarm of angry insects? Unfortunately, finding the answers to any of these questions requires completing tasks for a group of self-righteous suspects who allocate all their most tiresome chores to Nancy to complete.
It didn’t help that I didn’t have much idea what was going on for most of this game. I wish I could ask the person who thought a game where Nancy – and the Hardy Boys (who have been reincarnated from Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon as almost distant relatives of the monster patrolling the island) – spends the majority of the game collecting shells and running errands for an eccentric professor? I’ve never been so bored stiff by a game before, a fact that depresses me considering Creature of Kapu was competing against such games as Labyrinth of Lies and The Shattered Medallion. Until this game, I didn’t think it was possible for me to actually detest a Nancy Drew game. There always has to be a game at the bottom of the list and Creature of Kapu Cave is the perfect candidate. This is because, when you have two games which you liked or disliked fairly equally, sometimes you just have to go with your gut feeling about which one deserves to be ranked higher. Also, Secrets Can Kill (1998) and Secrets Can Kill Remastered (2010) have been ranked together.Ĥ) I have included links to each of my full-length reviews for each of the games, which can be accessed by clicking on the title of the game.ĥ) Finally, I want to acknowledge that ranking some of these games was tremendously difficult and, thus, it may not always seem entirely clear why one game surpassed the other, despite my best efforts. Therefore, there are thirty games being ranked, not thirty-two. Nevertheless, there are a few things I would like to state first before I begin this ranking:Ģ) While there may be hints as to what happens in each of the games and who the culprit is (for example, in X game, the culprit is very obvious), there will be no actual spoilers that reveal the culprit, the ending of the game or any significant twists.ģ) Ransom of the Seven Ships and Trail of the Twister are both missing from this list as I’m yet to finish playing them. Thus, I have decided that, over the next three weeks, I will be ranking all the Nancy Drew games that I have played.
(And, for those wanting to make their first purchases of games in the series, which games they should prioritise over others).
In the last few months though, I did start to wonder about how I’d actually go about ranking all the games because, while individual reviews definitely highlight what a game does well (and what it doesn’t), it doesn’t reveal much regarding how one game compares to another. For the last year, I’ve been writing reviews on each of the games in the Nancy Drew series.
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