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Nancy Drew - Secret Of The Old Clock 
The year is 1930. A fiery explosion at the Lilac Inn leaves its owner, Emily Crandall, teetering on the edge of sanity and propels you, as Nancy Drew, headlong into adventure. A will left behind by an eccentric millionaire could solve Emily's problems, and fortunately, you've got a car and can drive anywhere you want. But watch out! When you're in the trail of a desperate villain, the road can get very bumpy. Steer clear of trouble in Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock!
- 20 hours of gameplay.
- Sort through suspects.
- Explore rich environments.
- Get the Strategy Guide
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System Requirements:
- OS: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
- CPU: 600 Mhz
- RAM: 128 MB
- DirectX: 6.0
- Hard Drive: 554 MB
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Classic Nancy Drew
Fun for any age. Just complicated enough sleuthing, without taking weeks (and many head aches) to finish.
November 21, 2011
Nancy's first investigation
Invited by her friend Emily, the legal heir to an Inn which, because she is still under age, is run by Jane, her legal guardian, Nancy sets off to Titusville in her sports car.
As she arrives, she finds Emily quite distraught by the theft of her jewelry and witnesses a suspicious fire in the kitchen.
These events are sufficient for her to decide to stay for investigation purposes.
If you have already played one or two Nancy Drew investigations, you will be familiar with the first person view, the interaction with the different characters in the form of interactive dialogs which are important since they provide valuable information and clues, reading books and notes to the same purpose and picking up useful items.
Naturally, Nancy will have to solve puzzles; they are all interesting, imaginative and challenging.
Minigames come intermittently and are good fun to play. All puzzles and minigames bear some sort of connection with the story.
A story which is clever, solid and rather engaging, like every other Nancy Drew investigation. I have played 13 of them and not once have I been disappointed by the plot. The suspense is complete till the end which is totally unexpected.
I enjoyed all of them, but I found this one particularly interesting and amusing: driving Nancy's sports car around town was good fun and so were the other minigames.
As for the very last part of the ending, that too was fun, but I won't say more lest I'd give too much away.
The visuals are impeccable as usual, highly detailed, drawn with talent and brightly colored.
Nancy's investigations are reputed for their difficulty. The Secret of the Old Clock is among the easiest and hence perfectly suited to anyone who is unfamiliar with Nancy's adventures as well as veterans.
January 17, 2012
not one of the best but still enjoyable
This is one of the games with the awful interface that takes up a third of the screen (ghost dogs of moon lake has it, curse of blackmoor) and it annoys me intently as I feel I am playing this through a viewfinder, I am not immersed in it.
It?s not one of the better ones but I still enjoyed it.
It wasn?t difficult, some ND puzzles usually is hair pulling but these were straightforward though like all ND games you have to think with some. Also I do wish the journal would record everything that I need for some mini games, and I didn?t need to write things down but that is the same for all of ND games that I have played. It?s also the only ND game I have played that didn?t have a theme running through it, learning about a subject. You also don't have to go to bed or have a clock (have to do things at a certain time etc) throughout the game so that side of it was great.
Even though it?s not ND first game you may think it is by the story ? 1920s young Nancy trying her hand at her first case. You have to drive around town a lot, and earn money for gas money this can get tedious.
Puzzles ?
-Miniature golf ? this was fun
-guess what colour is in each spot ? gives flags if right colour in wrong place etc
-slider puzzle, and a gears puzzle
-same colour piece to go on corresponding colour tile on a board
- a few decipher riddles, logic test (one of those was an old fashioned expression I hadn?t heard)
- rotate tiles and place them in correct pattern to make a photo
-place nuts and bolts in their corresponding correct size drawer
-a variation on the old mentalist trick of ?guess what I have? by how I say something ? this was random so you work it out by process of elimination
There are a few others.
Pros ?
-variety of puzzles
-great plot
Cons ?
-Interface taking up too much room
-Slightly too much dialogue, I can read faster than they speak so would love a skip button. I could then follow the plot without wasting time.
-In options I chose not to listen to the music and not to have subtitles. It didn?t work I had both, and nothing seemed to change it.
Nancy drew games I have played and the order I enjoyed them:
1)White wolf of icicle creek
2) Trail of the twister (although shorter and less variety than others)
3) Legend of the crystal skull
4)Secret of the old clock (I like puzzles and there was more variety than other games)
5) Ghost dogs of moon lake (although the graphics and adventure side was better)
5) Danger deception island
6) Message in a haunted mansion (must retry it with walkthrough as missed vital thing early on and just frustrated me so not that far through it)
Overall a solid B purely on plot and I like the puzzles. It's a good one to start on. If you click on the journal and then on the icon beside it you get a hint by a to do list, if you play on junior level.
(Although I play a lot of LF games I still think ND games are so different so view myself intermediate, gave myself a promotion with this game!)
February 8, 2012
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