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He agrees to help her, leaving his new STEM counselor in charge: Addy. Addy gives Bess the address, and the two look for the information while trading barbs back and forth.īess goes to see Nick at the youth center to get his help with the main case of the week. All of her friends are occupied with their own adventures, and no one invited her along.Īt the historical society, Addy, the coffee date Bess tried to ditch in episode 1, comes in looking for information about Passamaquoddy land in Horseshoe Bay. Let’s get to what happened! All By Myself Michael Courtney/The CWīess is hiding her witchy outing with Temperance and feeling lonely. It’s a loving wink to the fans that also functions as a great case of the week episode, and it ranks among the best episodes of the show. There’s commentary about fan fiction and about fan subculture that, while gently mocking, is a tribute to the fans and the characters. But within the world of the show, Nancy Drew is a celebrity in her own right known for solving cold cases, so it works on that level as well. Nancy Drew, iconic crime solving character, is in attendance at a true crime convention, a meta scenario that will provoke squeals of glee among those in the “childhood obsession with Nancy Drew to true crime enthusiast” pipeline. But this episode shines because of its meta love letter to the fans of Nancy Drew. Sigh.“The Testimony of the Executed Man” has a lot to love, from the introduction of a new love interest for Bess to the solving of the Frozen Hearts Killer case (or is it?). I kept finding myself coming up on a turn, thinking I was at the junction, just to find myself turning into a portrait of a dead president. Lots of weirdly sharp angles and positions. The directional arrows never seemed to be in intuitive, nor in the right part of the screen. Ok, last complaint: Navigation! Holy moly guys! Normally it takes a few turns about town to get a feel for where the arrows are in a ND game, and then you’re whizzing about from puzzle to puzzle. Side puzzles are silly, but that’s part of what’s been fun about ND. Or “oooh pancakes! Maybe I’ve got to make some suspect’s favorite shaped pancake to get them to talk!” Nope. “Oooh, she gave me an advanced herb to use, bet I’ll need that later”. I also kept expecting fun little side puzzles introduced early in the game to play larger roles later on.

Her “verbal sleuthing” is a forgone conclusion, so you just sit there, mindlessly click through every conversation bubble, and you win. It’s not like you can mess up figuring out what happens, or pick the wrong bad guy, so making the gameplay dialogue based made no sense. 2) Nancy Drew games follow a predetermined plot. Basically, I had to turn on subtitles, read quickly, and button click my way through the madness. I’ve got a pretty new computer (that should be able to handle a lot more than a simple Nancy Drew game) and on normal settings, the dialogue was consistently a good 10 seconds behind. 1) I had to majorly crank down the graphics settings to get this game to flow properly.

TWO! Alas, there were maybe 5 puzzles in the entire game? The focus was definitely on dialogue which posed 2 big issues for me. If there’s anything that stands out immediately that something went wrong with this game, it’s the fact that I’d finished it, and written notes on exactly 2 post it notes. If there’s anything that stands out tldr: Cut the chatter and go back to more puzzles! Can't believe I dug my notebook out for this game. Tldr: Cut the chatter and go back to more puzzles! Can't believe I dug my notebook out for this game. If you haven’t played the other games or didn’t like them, you won’t like this. seriously though please! But yea, I recommend the game for ND fans. I really hope HerInteractive continues and does better next game! I was VERY disappointed not to have a preview of what the next game will be. HOWEVER, it is a better (albeit different) style of game play and it can only improve from here. The way I look at it - the story line was good, I enjoyed the case and characters, but it was lacking in some of the graphics and there were a few dialogue glitches. Like other reviewers say, the graphics aren’t great - but this platform and style of game play was a huge feat. I was skeptical of the new navigation at first but by the end of the game I was comfortable with the new format. I played it as junior detective with ease (more ease than usual).

I was skeptical of the new I was very excited for this game to come out. I was very excited for this game to come out.