A remaster of Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill
A remaster of Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill, featuring updated graphics and new puzzles. Players take on the first-person view of fictional amateur sleuth Nancy Drew and solve the mystery by interrogating suspects, solving puzzles, and discovering clues.
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not a fan of the music in this one but funny mystery lmao jake deserved .
i do like the constant puzzles on the bulletin boards but they do trick u into thinking theyre needed to complete the game
i do like the constant puzzles on the bulletin boards but they do trick u into thinking theyre needed to complete the game
I think it's an 'okay' detective game, the click hitbox is a little broken, the dialogues kinda weak but I liked the element of solving everything yourself. It's not a game I'm ever going to replay, though. The next games? I'd have to check some reviews before getting to play.
Average. It's a remaster of the first game so it's very much so improved graphically, but I played the actually first game and this remaster and neither one did much for me. Not a game I ever think about replaying.
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TLDR: A definitely dated, very short game that felt both overly easy and unnecessarily hard in weird intervals. I don't regret the $3 I spent on it(normally it is $7), but I definitely bought it to relive my childhood dreams of being Nancy Drew and not because it was actually a good game.
Amount of time it took me: 2.7 hours
Platform I played on: PC/Steam
Environment: The game is point-and-click style with three major areas to interact with. Most of your time is spent in the school, but there is also Nancy's aunt's house as well as the local diner, Maxine's. The graphics are subpar and very appropriate for a game made in the 90's, but it didn't really deter from the game at all for me. I liked the simplicity of it.
Sound: The sound is alright - admittedly it is actually one of the more well done aspects of the game. There were a lot of background sounds that gave clues/indicators of what to do next. There were also a few scare moments of hearing doors slam/open behind you, footsteps, etc. that added to the suspense.
One thing I really liked about the game: I had to write down so much for the clues to keep track that I truly felt like a lil' Nancy Drew.
One thing I would change about the game: I had to write down so much for the clues that it was ridiculous. They had a camera feature in game, but it was much easier to write things down in a note on my phone to keep track than to flip through all the photos. They definitely needed to implement some kind of note-taking ability in this game.
Amount of time it took me: 2.7 hours
Platform I played on: PC/Steam
Environment: The game is point-and-click style with three major areas to interact with. Most of your time is spent in the school, but there is also Nancy's aunt's house as well as the local diner, Maxine's. The graphics are subpar and very appropriate for a game made in the 90's, but it didn't really deter from the game at all for me. I liked the simplicity of it.
Sound: The sound is alright - admittedly it is actually one of the more well done aspects of the game. There were a lot of background sounds that gave clues/indicators of what to do next. There were also a few scare moments of hearing doors slam/open behind you, footsteps, etc. that added to the suspense.
One thing I really liked about the game: I had to write down so much for the clues to keep track that I truly felt like a lil' Nancy Drew.
One thing I would change about the game: I had to write down so much for the clues that it was ridiculous. They had a camera feature in game, but it was much easier to write things down in a note on my phone to keep track than to flip through all the photos. They definitely needed to implement some kind of note-taking ability in this game.
it always makes me laugh when darryl is the only person who asks nancy wtf she was doing digging in jake's locker. everyone else is just like "eh, idk why [clue] was in there."
I love Nancy, but the suspects might be less fighty if she would stop spewing gossip at them with the vocal tone of a smug sociopath.