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User Submitted Nancy Drew: Secret Of the Old Clock Reviews (cont...)Date: 2007-04-02 Fun but not quite Fabulous The twelfth of the Nancy Drew Mystery Series. Things are graded A-F, just like school. The Crime: C It's 1930, and Nancy stops by the home of Emily Crandall to check on her. The girl has recently lost her mother, and now has said she is seeing things. She asks Nancy to put her mother's jewels in a safe, but before Nancy can do so, an explosion occurrs! The jewelry is stolen and Nancy Drew begins her first case. Also on the docket is finding out what happened to Josiah Crowley, a local eccentric who had promised to leave money to Emily. The Depression is starting and the young girl can use all the help she can get! Suspects include Emily's guardian Jane W., kind banker Mr. Archer, and "psychic" Richard Topham (who also happens to be Josiah's sole heir). My thought on this was that the crime was trying too hard. It left me feeling indifferent. Puzzles: B The look and feel of the puzzles was great. My favorite one was the number/symbol game in the carriage house. I agonized over it, but I loved it. Ultimately, though, there didn't seem to be a lot of puzzles in this game at all. Not as many as previous games. Gameplay: B This game is more a fetch-and-carry than a mystery. The mystery tends to get lost while Nancy spends most of her time running errands for people around town. Everybody has a line like, "Oh, I would love to do that for you, Nancy, but first I have to..." and of course Nancy volunteers. This happens over and over. Even Nancy comments to Bess, "You wouldn't believe what I had to go through..." You drive Nancy's roadster, which I liked, deliver telegrams for extra money (which I liked, but got tedious after a while), explore hidden passages, fish the local waterhole, and play mini-golf. One thing I didn't like was that the mini-golf was disconnected from the game. In CUR, Jane's games had to be won at some point in order to get something. In CLK, the mini-golf is obviously there only an extra. HI did a good time integrating the time period and the Great Depression into the game without hitting us over the head with it. I really liked how you could experience the town and the townspeople, even though you could only actually enter a few locations (they used black-and-white period pictures to show you the rest). There are no spooky moments, no suspense, and no thrills and chills here at all. The closest you come is when Nancy scares herself in the hidden passage. This is the shortest Nancy Drew game ever made, with the exception of SCK. I finished in 7 hours, and that is unlike me. I was disappointed; I expect more bang for my $20. Time Changes: None. This all takes place in a single day. Voice Acting: B The voices all kind of rolled off me. They were wonderfully done, but they were missing some "oomph." Emily seems sad and delicate, Jane is blowsy, Richard is a slick public speaker-type, and Mr. Archer is a nice guy. Carson Drew was excellent and is the reason for the "B". He's perfect: wise, patient, kind, loving. Nancy's relationship with him is spelled out in the first phone call - they love each other, and he thinks she's a smart cookie. Perfect. The people who stood out to me were the bit players - Mrs. Jakowski, good-time-girl and local phone operator, and Mrs. O'Shea, patroness of the orphanage. Music: B Period, and very nice, but again, I was sort of indifferent. I did find myself nodding my head to the jazzy ragtime that plays in The Lilac Inn's entrance hall. Graphics/Video: A The best yet, of course. One gripe I do have is why are all the slim girls so frightening? Jane in CUR and Emily in this game are scarily thin. If you look at Emily's feet as she sits in the window seat, you can tell that the size of her legs and feet is so small as to be almost impossible. Why can't HI do a skinny girl without her being out of proportion? Technical: A Perfectly perfect. Overall, I think this one is neat and entertaining, a great way to pass a few hours, but it was lacking The Wow Factor for me. I just wasn't dazzled by what I saw like I have been in the past. If you love Nancy Drew, this one's for you. Play it and have a good time. Don't be surprised if it falls a little short, though. Date: 2007-03-09 great games this nancy drew game is one of the best ones yet buy it Date: 2007-02-28 Short lived fun This game is incredibly fun, despite the fact it only took me three hours to beat. It is definantly one of the shorter Nancy Drew's. Though it may be short in lenght, it is not short in fun. The '30s flair, adds a nice touch to the mystery. Overall, not one of the best, but not the least. Date: 2007-01-24 Fun but short This game was fun but very short. The puzzles were much easier than The Curse of Blackmoor Manor and I completed this game in a couple of days. I did not find this game as challenging as the previous one but I still enjoyed playing it. My favorite challenges were the golf game and the driving parts. It was really neat that you could drive Nancy's roadster around town and during the car chase. I would recommend this game for all ages. Date: 2007-01-11 Lots of fun and a good challenge I bought this game for my 14-year-old daughter, who loves the Nancy Drew series. I found that I also enjoyed it myself. I'm a pretty smart cookie, and I can usually figure out the end to mystery movies before the end of the film, but even I was challenged by this game! I would highly recommend it to anyone who loves detective mysteries, especially the Nancy Drew series.
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