But do I like it enough to make it one of my top 10 Nancy Drew games? As Tex would say, nope. I mean who wants to vacation in Wisconsin anyhow? The mystery they did not include cyber in the title this time in this game is truly iconic. Such drama and flair! They also call Nancy the worst friend a diamond thief could ever have which is, hilarious. Per usual, midway through the game Nancy is violently attacked and knocked unconscious.
Is Jaques at all concerned by this? Does he try and help Nancy at all? Of course not! He then refuses to talk to her for the rest of the game which is honestly such a blessing and worth the possible brain damage Nancy might have suffered due to the attack as the brain damage she would have suffered by being forced to have another conversation with Jacques would have certainly been much, much worse. Still, despite its flaws, Treasure in the Royal Tower is truly a treasure itself.
It is a near-perfect game — if you can forgive Nancy willingly vacationing in the Midwest, that is. This game is genuinely terrifying, but the only thing scarier than the ghost that haunts the Ryokan is the amount of Sudoku puzzles this game has.
They're endless. The ghost may give you a heart attack, but these will literally bore you to death. Still, if you can manage to get through them and survive fainting when the ghost pops up this game is actually a really good time.
I mean, in classic Nancy Drew fashion we get to rummage through literally all of the suspect's stuff for clues, which ultimately leads to us finding highly intimate and seriously personal details about total strangers in the process!
I mean this game is basically just Nancy getting involved in the middle of some family drama even though literally no one asked her to. Great stuff! Plus this game is our introduction to Savannah Woodham who is kind of a Nancy Drew icon. This game is kind of a Nancy Drew icon too. What this game lacks in puzzles it more than makes up for in drama. I love forcing Ned to stand up Deirdre. I love hearing Tony talk smack about Nancy to someone she literally knows is Nancy's best friend.
I love Brenda's constant use of costumes and wigs. I love Alexei's vendetta against Bess. I love that even THIS game ultimately ends with us wandering around another set of random underground tunnels. How wonderful! The setting is fun. The characters are fun. We even get thrown in jail! How exciting! However switching between Nancy, Bess, Ned, and George does not prove to be nearly as thrilling.
However, points added for Deidre's confirmation that Ned is a total hottie. Still wish we could see it for ourselves though. This is a good Nancy Drew game. Honestly, this is such a good Nancy Drew game that there's really not a lot of stuff to make fun of here. The characters are smart and well-thought-out. The puzzles are great. Not only is the mystery compelling, but it actually makes sense for a change?
Even the historical elements of the game tie in well with the mystery. The whole thing almost feels too good to be true. You'd think with all this plot there'd be no room for something fun? You get to have MASSIVE relationship drama with Ned throughout the entire game, but even that ties in o the mystery as it mirrors the relationship drama of Elisabet and Magnus within the main game.
For once even Nancy's boyfriend sub-plot has narrative purpose! It's all thought out. It all ties together. It's so good. It's almost too good? Its perfection actually makes me miss the Nancy Drew campiness that makes Nancy Drew games, well Nancy Drew games. I honestly forgot how good this game was because there's nothing truly ridiculous to remember it by. Still, it really is the culmination of the best the Nancy Drew games can be and for that, it deserves top ranks. Much like Ned still loves us despite our flaws, ultimately I still love this game despite its lack of them.
I love the puzzles. I love collecting the eyes. I love that this game has the audacity to tell us right away that it should be played in the dark. This is the kind of game that knows what it wants and I respect it for that. I love that Ned is friends with Henry Bolet even though based on what we know of them they have absolutely nothing in common except for being hot.
I love playing as Bess even though all she does is torture that random man who owns the store and the other random man who sits outside of it. The whole game is fun. It has tons of classic Nancy Drew staples: A crazy dead person who left behind a string of puzzles, wandering through random people's graves, and a secret society with suspicious intentions that HER barely flushes out and never really explains.
I mean come on! This game has it all. What can I say? Just like Henry Bolet, this one really does it for me. Look, this game is a paradox. Nothing in it is good and yet I love everything about it. I love the voice actors' horrendous French accents. I love that it randomly ends with us fighting the culprit with Kung Fu. All Jing Jing does is bake cookies. All Dieter does is pout about Minette.
All Jean-Michelle does is read other characters to filth. They're all great. Even the phone contacts in this game are great. I mean, this game has us designing the ugliest outfits I've ever seen in my life for the legend that is Prudence Rutherford. Each new plot point in this game more ridiculous than the next and yet I enjoy every second of it. It literally cannot be explained.
It's just, as our boss with a face tattoo would say, utterly rude. This game has everything: a great mystery, great puzzles, and most importantly, great gossip. Literally half of this game is just Nancy getting the students to talk smack about each other.
Warnings at Waverly Academy has the vision to combine the elegance and horror of classic Edward Allen Poe stories with the suspects thinking they are being sabotaged because they stole another girl's boyfriend. I mean, who could ask for anything more? Well, this game does have even more: A secret society, a twin twist, and a Nancy Drew classic blackmail!
My only complaint is that we are forced to do snack duty. However, we do get to hear girls gossip about which teachers are hot while we do it. In this game even the chores are fun. This is a great Nancy Drew game. The puzzles, mystery, and characters are all top-notch, not to mention it's genuinely terrifying. I love this game's casual attitude toward carbon monoxide poisoning.
I love that there are multiple endings where Nancy can literally choose to ruin everyone's entire life. I love the random relationship drama between Savannah and Wade. I love that Nancy is only awake at 3 a.
I love that despite it being 3 a. Which has led many fans online to speculate that he is cheating on Nancy with Bess! Even with all the ridiculous plot holes HER refuses to explain Is there a ghost? There isn't a ghost? Then why can the ghost kill you? And no I'm not just saying that because I don't want Nancy to leave me to die in a house fire. I love everything about this game.
I love that the Italian secret police have hired a literal teenager to solve the country's biggest crime. I love spending half the game dressing up Nancy in an array of hideous outfits. I love the contrast between Colin who is so obsessed with us he literally has to leave the game, to Margarita who genuinely does not care if we live or die.
There brings me no greater joy in life than ruining Colin's day by telling him I no longer want to look at his tessera slides. To me, this game is hotter than a dancer in a nightclub dressed from head to toe in a skin-tight leather catsuit. I mean, me-ow. If I could give this game an ugly locket to profess my undying love, believe me, I would.
To me, this is the crown jewel of the Nancy Drew games — both literally and figuratively! The setting is amazing, the puzzles are fun, and the characters are a total blast. I love talking to the Hardy Boys. I love constantly making Tino Balducci look like an idiot. I love the audacity that Charleena Purcell has, refusing to autograph her headshot with a pencil. Face your fears to find the truth of the Beast of Blackmoor! Discover who—or what—is behind the mysterious accidents in a b ed and breakfast full of secrets!
In this haunted mansion, do you as Nancy Drew have a ghost of a chance? Top 5 Scary Games. Follow Us. Speaking of dialogue, Nancy Drew has been voiced by the same voice actor in every PC game, but for this game, she has a new voice actor. I do prefer the old voice actor because that is what I grew up with, but the new voice actor is fine. The new movement system is clunky because you have to put your cursor in the exact right spot to move to a new area.
It was difficult to move to new areas in the game because of that. The game feels like a fan-made Nancy Drew game because of how unfinished it is, and it is by far the worst game because of all the problems I mentioned and the lack of actual puzzles. I would only recommend playing this game if you have played every other Nancy Drew game and you really want a new story to play through. Comments Great post! Yes the newer games especially have replay value because they added achievements.
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