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User Submitted Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor Reviews (cont...)Date: 2006-12-03 Great Game, like most Nancy Drew games... I really thought this game was fun and challenging. I love all the Nancy Drew games and this is one of my favorite. I have a 21 in. monitor and the graphics were great. It's a little scary (just a little)....scary but fun! Date: 2006-11-14 Hard but Fun! I am surprised at the number of mediocre reviews for this splendid game.I loved it! I am rather amused at the "10 years old and up" on the cover..they had probably no idea that "up" in one case at least is aged 76, me- and that's really up. The graphics are very fine. The puzzles are hard and you are obliged to play several games with the little girl in the story, Jane, in order to obtain certain tools to proceed. These games within the game did get a bit tedious, but I am was hopelessly slow at "Petroglyph Punch" and the like. And it took me five tries to gather up 13 ghosts milling around the manor. When something is timed I panic. I'm like my cats who vanish if I even look at the door where the vacuum cleaner is kept. The voice acting is very good, and if the British accents aren't authentic, so what. The images of the characters are very well done, the gestures and mouth synchronization very natural. Mrs. Drake is particularly good, she's rather like a watered down version of Mrs. Danvers. I could not have finished this game without the help of a walkthrough. The puzzles are hard. But the fact that I always cheat like mad doesn't bother me ar all and I never have felt that the game is spoiled one whit with the heavy use of a walkthrough. If you can finish this game without assistance, more power to you. But take it from an old lady- this game is fun and if you have to sweat a bit here and there, that's part of the whole adventure game enchilda. Date: 2006-11-13 Terrible Graphics - Not adjustable After reading great reviews on the Nancy Drew series, I purchased Curse of Blackmoor Manor, installed it and went to play. There is no option for adjusting screen resolution and anyone who has a monitor larger than 15 inches will be terribly disappointed. As this is the 11th game in the series, and fairly recent, it is a shame HerInteractive decided everyone probably has a 5 to 7 year old computer with an inferior graphics card. Even if the game is excellent, the graphics are totally unworthy. Their website offers no solution and does not even address the issue. Date: 2006-11-11 Such a Shame... Oh my, I really, really, REALLY didn't enjoy this game. When I play the games (and I've played them all), I like to start on the Senior level and play without help. I don't mind wracking my brain, stepping away, and coming back to something. But this game? I couldn't play without a great deal of help. I never really understood what I was doing or why or how. I really didn't learn much either. And that's what I've always loved about the games - walking away knowing a little bit more about something than I did going in. Date: 2006-09-17 Great family game This is the first game I was able to play with little help from a walkthrough. My family has two computers: I played this game on mine and my 8yo and 12yo played it on theirs. It was fun to be able to help each other when needed. The game does get a bit creepy in some scenes, but my kids loved the bird. The puzzles weren't too difficult that they couldn't be solved. Jane's games were also fun to play with. The best thing about that is when you got stuck, you could take a break at any time and play a game with Jane (when she was awake and not studying). It was also interesting how certain scenes were shown on my game that weren't shown on my kids game and vice versa. Sometimes the same scenes we saw on the different games would be shown at different points in the game as well. For example, in my daughter's game she saw both nightmares, whereas I only saw one. She also got scolded by Jane's tutor early in her game, while I got scolded late in the game. The graphics were slightly better than the older Nancy Drew games and the music was not so ominous. While Nancy's friends weren't there to help, web browsing on the cell phone helps a lot with many of the puzzles. There is also a little bit of comedy in the game: Polly always has something witty to say and you also get to scare Nigel in the library. Overall, this game is great to play with your kids.
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