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my son is playing it right now, he says there are a few hard parts, but overall its easy.
I will stick with Nancy from now on. They kept having to move out of the way. The third person view wouldn't have been too bad, but walking around with someone following behind all of the time was clumsy. I much prefer the way Nancy Drew used other characters by switching between them, but not having them in the same place. I agree with the others who were disappointed in this game. Having played every Nancy Drew game available, I was expecting something similar. The only time two characters were necessary was right at the start, to get out of the house.
Some of the locations at the beginning (at Spencer Mansion) are a little hard to figure out, but maybe I was just blind to those places. One glitch makes it not perfect, but otherwise, it is an awesome game. I had to start the game over, but I loved the game so it wasn't that bad.Fun-This game is really fun. I love replaying it, but now it only takes me about 12-15 hours.
I saw some reviewers were not happy that they are part of ATAC in this game. When I got this game and saw that it was a third person point-and-click game as opposed to the Nancy Drew first person games, I was rather skeptical. I'm sorry, I just found that a bit distracting. The puzzles are fun and hard. There was room for improvement, however.Gameplay-Like I said, this is a 3rd person point-and-click game. Challenging and long, it has the things that the Nancy Drew games lack-and most other adventure games for that matter.Length-This game probably took me about 3 weeks to finish the first time. Most require you to put 2 objects together, but some required you to use your brain.
I'm sorry for those who didn't like this part of the game, but please try to be open minded and enjoy it. I think that is long, though.Overall, I think the reason people don't like this game is because it is based on the newer books. But the characters are 3D, and I liked them.Sound-The sound didn't stand out to me that much, but it was good enough that I didn't get sick of it. However, I was proven wrong as this game was great fun and much more challenging than the Nancy Drew games.Story-Frank and Joe Hardy work for an undercover teen crime fighting organization ATAC (American Teens Against Crime), and this organization sends them their next case which is to find out who robbed the safe at the Spencer Mansion and how they got through the unbreakable safe.
I understand that some fans liked the older books better, but I think the producers were basing Frank and Joe after the newer books since those are the ones in stores right now. The voice acting was pretty good. Maybe some people didn't like that about the game. I loved that, and I think some newer fans will, too.
Why does everyone hate this game. It's not even a big part of the game.Graphics-The backgrounds were okay, but what turned me off was that all of the characters have wedgies. The reason I took off 1 star is because right when I was about to finish the game, an important item disappeared from my inventory.
Finally figuring out that we needed a "patch" to get the mouse to work properly and to keep the game from freezing up on us.Pros: Being able to combine items in your inventory to use them together.Cons: Map format used similar to Nancy Drew's Danger by Design which limits places to explore. Ending with the comic book graphic style pictures was disappointing.We are hoping that the Hardy Boy games get better as they work out their kinks.Last pet peeve, I would love to be able to get the Nancy Drew/Hardy Boy games that were made for the Nintendo DS in computer format At the hospital trying to figure out how to put on the white coats to get past the nurses station.3. We got off to a very slow start at the beginning of the game with trying to get the keys, figuring out the cell phone and just getting out of the house.2. We were really looking forward to having the Hardy Boys games to play in addition to the Nancy Drew. My daughter and I are avid Nancy Drew computer game fans. The plot and most of the puzzles were enjoyable, but there were a few frustrating things:1. Opening up the locket, we ended up getting a cheat because we never found any clue on how to press the petals in the correct order.4.
I admit, as someone who's played all the Nancy Drew CD-R games, that this FIRST effort to produce a Hardy Boys mystery game has the usual issues and bugs you'd expect from a first-time effort. Sure, the Hardy Boys initial game has some issues - the comic book opening/closing is cheesy, the way the characters move looks like a bad Michael Jackson Moonwalk impression.
Sometimes we had to go online to get hints as to where to go next - but we had to do that with Nancy Drew games as well. Mom) could be a bit better - I disliked the storyline where the Dad lies to the Mom and she sounds like a shrew.
Some of the voiceovers (e.g. Our son and we still enjoyed playing the game together and I don't think it should be completely panned (I suggest "to do" lists and junior/senior levels to help).
Okay. After all, when I played the Nancy Drew original game I was shocked at how bad the graphics and story line were and grateful for how improved the subsequent Nancy Drew games became.
but these are MINOR.
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