stusue wrote:

misscatlady2453 wrote:

I have decided to play through my back log of unplayed Nancy Drew games before the newest one comes out. Currently playing Alibi in Ashes. It is an okay game but you have to switch between playing different characters and it makes it kind of tedious. Definitely not my favorite game of the series.

Miss, I've never been a great fan of the Nancy Drew games, although I loved the books when I was little.  I own a few of them, have played 2, neither of which impressed me terribly much, and have demoed a few of the early ones, all of which gave me the irrits.  I know they're hugely popular and I know heaps of people who love them, but they're just not for me.



Thank heavens GH has a whole heap of them.  I keep on meaning to try some of those I haven't already but my loooooooooooooooooooong list of bought, unplayed games that I really, really, really want to play keeps me more than fully occupied.


 

Out of curiousity which ones have you played? I finished Alibi in Ashes. Definitely not my favorite. It was okay but not as good as some of the others. Going to play Silent Spy next.

Woo Hoo !!!!  I've finished Shiver 3: Moonlit Grove!    And I loved it, unlike lots of reviewers.  

Alas, I only had the SE of this one and now I'm wondering what the bonus chapter would have been about as there was no cliff hanger cutscene at the end but just the one ending the main game.  Typical, the one I would have liked to have had the bonus chapter doesn't!  But when I got to the end I thought that, although I'd achieved my goal of saving the girl, the story hadn't really ended as all the villagers were still missing, so maybe that's what you do in the bonus chapter.

Shiver 1 had the best atmosphere and story, Shiver 2 was okay, Shiver 3 had the best gameplay.  

Shiver 3:  I especially liked the HOPs as they were very imaginative.  They were only interactive lists but the interactions were so much fun.  They weren't like the normal interactions but, for example, in the last one I needed a head for the scarecrow.  Then, once I'd found the head (a goat skull) I had to paint it red.  However, once I'd found the paintbrush, I couldn't paint the head red as I had to first find something to open the can of paint.  Then I could paint the head.  It was like an inventory puzzle, rather than just an interaction.  I also loved the zoom-in scenes, as you didn't just put, for example, a wooden spoon in the glue to stir it, but you actually had to stir it!  That was fun with a touch screen.  Also, for example, I needed to use a horseshoe to attach a chain to the handle of a trapdoor to open it and I had to actually pull the chain with the horseshoe over to the handle until it hooked on.  Another time I had to lower a hook to get a key and it wasn't done for me; I actually had to physically lower the hook (once again using touch) until it finally hooked the key, just like in real life.  There are so many examples like those and I loved them all!  

I also loved all the Plus items (of which there were many) as they were also so much fun doing.  A few times I found an inventory item, knew what I needed it for, but couldn't for the life of me remember where that object was (and there's no map to help you, and the game world is big) and, after running all over the place, searching everywhere for whatever it was I needed to find, I finally used a hint as I just couldn't keep running around in circles, only to have the Hint point out that it was a Plus item in my inventory!  And that happened more than once, because the Plus item actions were just like inventory puzzles so that's why I thought I had to find them; it wasn't just a case of putting 2 inventory items together to join them but actually doing actions you'd normally do as inventory puzzles.

I had nothing much to say about the last one but heaps to say about this one, which is kinda telling, dontcha think?
Anyway, that makes 4 games finished in 4 days !!!!  
 

Last edited by stusue (February 5, 2015 2:30 am)

I was working some more on Drawn: The Painted Tower.  Some tough puzzles in it and no instructions whatsoever.  There is one with 3 stone circles and I can't make heads or tails out of it. Was working on it for 1/2 hour last night and I'm stumped.  Going to check the forums before I tackle it again.

I also started playing Lost Legends: The Weeping Woman for some light relief.  Well, the story isn't light, actually it is kind of sad, but the gameplay is.  Also, the game is so pretty.    Such a use of colors.

How appropriate today's TGT is:  Mystery of the Ancients: Deadly Cold.  When last night it was zero degrees.

Woo Hoo !!!! 

It's amazing what a break can do when you're stumped.  I just went back to try and complete the puzzle I was stuck on and, lo and behold, finished it in about 6 moves!  Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!  I'd been almost there without even realising it.


 

sunshine, I played Drawn in Aug.12 and in a notebook I use to make notes on games, I wrote "strange story, beautiful graphics, used WT often, not sure what was expected, most puzzles doable but some hard and had to skip."  Whenever I decide to play that series, most likely will replay from the start.

Speaking of series, after all the talk about Mystery Trackers, decided to start them myself.  Just finished the main game of MT: The Void and will do the bonus today.  Everything you all talked about was right on point ~ the HO scenes were great and although there were lots of them, never got tired of them.  Used the SG a couple of times when I needed a nudge.  I got all the achieverments, 38 HO scenes and 38 puzzles with no hints.  The journal was excellent and even though I did things out of order, I could always go back and follow the story.  A couple of times when I saw the ghosted ? in the journal re secret JE, wondered what that was for.  In a way, it reminded me of the MCF series ~ the badge first thing when you opened the game, the graphics and puzzles reminded me of their earliest games, too.

So glad I decided to start the MT series as Lost in the City is ok but doesn't draw me back as much as some of the others.  I will finish it as I want to see where the story goes but it's just been an average game for me.

Haven't seen Wendy around lately ~ hope everything is going ok with her since the move and everything else going on.  Was happy to see her getting back into her shuffleboard because I know she loved doing it and hadn't mentioned it in quite a while.