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Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water's Edge 
Nancy Drew heads for Japan where she’s staying at a traditional ryokan (inn) for a little RnR with Bess and George, but when reports of a vengeful ghost start scaring away the guests, Nancy’s vacation takes a turn for terror! It’ll be up to you, as Nancy Drew, to uncover the secret that lies beneath the surface, before the ghost can take its revenge in Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water’s Edge!
- Incredible storyline
- Fantastic gameplay
- Confront terrifying secrets!
- Get the Strategy Guide!
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System Requirements:
- OS: Windows XP/Vista
- CPU: 1.0 GHz
- RAM: 256 MB
- DirectX: 9.0
- Hard Drive: 1113 MB
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Fun Adventure Game
Another entertaining Nancy Drew game. The characters are engaging, the atmosphere is spot on, and the graphics lovely. The biggest negative was the constant back & forth to do singular tasks, & also as you were teaching during the day, only having the afternoon & evening to get things done, was a little limiting, & tedious at times. In saying that, this game had some very entertaining puzzles, especially the Suduko, Renagrams & Nonagrams - just loved those.
November 21, 2011
Loved This Game!
I absolutely loved this game! The graphics were fabulous and you really felt like you were there in Japan. Even though it is a murder mystery type, there is a lot of fun elements to this game, like riding the train, playing arcade games and helping the one character prepare 'Bento' food packages-a puzzle. I really didn't want this game to end but it had a satisfying conclusion.
November 18, 2011
creepy fun
In terms of atmosphere, this is one of the best Nancy Drew games, with plenty of spooky noises and strange happenings, and a mysterious family curse to solve. Like the other Nancy Drew games, this one is much tougher than most HO games- at several points I had to read the walkthrough because I was completely stuck. There are also a lot of number-puzzle type games that you have to play (no skipping!) in order to continue through the game, and these got tedious after a while. I also wished I could fast forward through Nancy's sometimes lengthy conversations with the other characters. But overall, it's very well done and worth buying if you liked some of the other games in this series.
November 22, 2011
One of the Better Nancy Drew Games
This game was delightfully creepy. Some of the mini-games were really fun. My 8 year old daughter was hooked on one that was a touch too hard and I got to do it over and over with her. I'm sure I'm smarter for it.
As usual, the graphics are great and the story is fun. The grandmother's accent is completely unlike any Japanese accent I've ever heard, but all else is great.
November 28, 2011
Too much dialog, not enough sleuthing!
Having done all of the previous Nancy Drew Mysteries, I had high expectations for this game. Unfortunately, I was disappointed. There is a great deal of silly dialog, which if you like that sort of thing, fine, but I am a quick reader, and it was excruciating having to wait for the characters to get their words out. Especially when it is Bess and George discussing nothing at all! The puzzles really should have skip buttons, especially the timed ones.. Some of the puzzles are quite lengthy, and you cannot save a partially done puzzle. The ending was not very believable either. While it was set in a great location, has interesting characters, and the visuals are well done, the game gets very repetitive, very quickly. The mini-game at the arcade was ridiculous--just mind numbing clicking until you collect enough marbles. No thinking what-so-ever. This is nothing like Phantom of Venice which was a great game!
February 19, 2012
What Happened?
I have played two Nancy Drew games before this (Waverly and White Wolf) and I found the quality of storyline to be lacking in this one compared to the others.
There was a very confused atmosphere in this game. I think it was because the developers attempted to cover all of Japan-both the hyper-traditional and hyper-modern versions. In the end, all that happened was that you got a very small portion of each as well as a feeling of being limited. As in, you feel a bit taunted, because there are so many train stations and you want to look at what they lead to-but! Nope. You are limited to the ryokan (mostly hallways leading to rooms you cannot enter), the garden (the most enjoyable destination, but nothing more than pleasant), the expo centre (sounds huge right? fully explorable in four clicks.), Yumi's apartment (consists of one room# and a miniature arcade where you can play games #after you make enough money to buy two things, you're done there).
This Nancy game is practically raved about on here as being creepy and awesome. Maybe I was expecting too much from it, or maybe I'm just rebelling against popular opinion, but it was not creepy. There was one timed puzzle where my heart was pounding in a rhythm that sound somewhat like: "You do not want to know what happens next so get out of here!" You were in a small room. The door locked behind you. There was rattling coming from the wall, along with hissings, whispering and banging; all growing louder by the second. You had to unlock the door to get out by completing a puzzle.
I failed to complete it. Guess what happened next.
Did the ghost slither in, grab her throat and squeeze the air from Nancy's lungs?
A piece of wood I could have been sure was not there before fell on her head. And killed her. Not to doubt the dangers of chopped up trees, but?
Now we get into the really important stuff:
There were no subplots. None at all. One of the main, if not the main, reason I love Nancy Drew games. I love finding out about things you would never expect because you're focusing on the main plot line. And Shadow at the Water's Edge was completely bare of them. I seriously, severely hope this is not going to be standard in new Nancy Drew games.
Also, the characters were not very engaging for me. They weren't ridiculously unrealistic, but they were kind of annoying. Not that I don't know anyone who is annoying in real life, but you are in contact with the other characters alot in this game for questioning's sake-even versus other Nancy Drew games. I think, this being considered, the character's personalities should have been made more complex than usual-not simpler.
Usually Nancy culprits have far better motives than the culprit did in this one. When they went on their usual 'this is why I did this and I am fully justified because of it' speech I was sure it had to be a cover. And, -I cringe as I write this!- not a very good one. Yet it was real.
Now, I have saved the worst thing about this game (in my case) for last-THE. MATH.
If you do not enjoy math, I absolutely do not recommend this game to you. Puzzles are integral to Nancy Drew games and the game focus in Shadow at the Water's Edge is graphs, math and numbers. I had to constantly use walkthroughs for the games, and many of the puzzles were still extremely frustrating for me.
I wish I wasn't, but...I am really dissapointed in this game. It just is not the Nancy and I have quickly some to love.
February 28, 2012
A Disappointment
This game is definitely not up to the same standards as previous Nancy Drew games. I have played all of them, except the most recent one, and I feel that there has been a gradual decline in quality, especially the storyline and the size of the areas to investigate. I miss the natural scenery to explore, hidden passages and learning interesting new skills. Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake and The Legend of Shadow Ranch are the best, in my opinion.
December 8, 2011
One that will make you jump
I have always enjoyed ND games - this one will make you jump at least once - much better than the previous release. Enjoyed the mini games that I had to fine them on line to play. Nice job!!1
November 29, 2011
OMG, What Happen, and were is my SKIN! AHH! Scary Game, And yet verry Fun
This game is suspenseful, fun, skin crawling out of your body, hard/fun, hard on the dialog fun! this game will take you the little experience in Japan. this game will also have very detailed graphics, and that means more jumping off of your computer. this game is about a confusing no explanation murder. Now that person is now a Japanese ghost! and you don't want to mess with her if your up for the challenge. due to the recent events in the place that you are staying at, killed peoples spirit to ghost hunt. ill recommend for people to play this game, if you wont be scared. plus this game story log is really twisted, so ill say its for people who are 14 and up. (the puzzles are really!!! hard!!!) Dislike: i did not like it when you are being scared all the time at the unexpected time and place,
February 18, 2012
Mystery Game
I love the thrill of the game. It was fun to have my skin crawl,
December 5, 2011
