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pretty good

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 25
Date: January 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game was alot of fun! At first, I didn't think I would like it because I thought it had to do w/ witchcraft & other stuff like that, but in the end, the story has a logical explination for everything. This IS the hardest ND(Nancy Drew) game yet, but it is still fun and I, personally like a challenge in ND games.

P.S.( sorry about the 1 star rating, it wouldn't erase when I came back to edit my review when I realized I liked the game.)

I need more time!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: October 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

** TWO STARS.

[I had written a review of this game a couple days ago, giving it only one star. But, I'm rewriting my review and I'm unable to change the rating scale.]

I had the same problem with Blackmore Manor that I've had with a few other Nancy Drew game - inability to finish the game because of the timed puzzles. Everytime I play N.D. games, I select the "Senior Detective" level - which is probably a big mistake. I always seem to have difficulty completing timed puzzles. I guess my old (closer to 50 than 40) hands just don't have quick enough reflexes to accomplish these puzzles. With the Blackmore Curse, my first problem came in the form of a typing test. The player needs to take the test and achieve a high enough score to obtain a clue - without which, the game cannot progress. I don't know what score was needed, but the best I could do was 25wpm - "Not good enough!" In order to get past this, I uninstalled the game and then reinstalled it. My old saves were not deleted with the uninstall so when I restarted the game, I chose "Junior Detective" and loaded up my last saved game from the first install. This actually worked and I was able to take the test again and achieve a high enough score to obtain the clue and continue on with the game.

Unfortunately, when I was almost at the end of the game there was another timed puzzle (going to three locations and touching certain objects with a wand) within a very short amount of time. I tried this over and over and over without success. Therefore, I was unable to complete the last couple of tasks and finish the game. I had the same problem at the very end of Shadow Ranch and on one of the games in Deception Island. I know in one of the earliest games Her Interactive had a patch available for download to allow extra time to finish the final puzzle - even with the extra time I couldn't finish that game. Apparently, I'm hopeless in these games.

The sad thing is that I really enjoyed everything that came before this stopping place in Blackmore Manor. The (untimed) puzzles were more challenging than previous games and a haunted mansion is a great setting for a game. But this is the fourth time I couldn't finish a Nancy Drew game. I don't think I'll be buying anymore.

Very difficult game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 13
Date: January 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I hate this game. There is a hallway that you walk up and down and a parrot that you ask questions to. There are doors that you can't open. In the main hall there are pictures on wall of people with flags of symbols beneath them. There are people that you can ask questions to but they don't give any real "answers".
You can't walk outside. There are all sorts of astrological symbols and maps in Nancy's room and in the mansion. There are books in the library but I couldn't pick any of them up. All of the columns in the main hall are missing a small detail. I walked around in people's rooms, the main hall and upstairs hallway. That's it. This game is not worth $2 to me.

HATED IT

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: March 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I thought it was hard, if I didn't have a cheat sheet,I wouldn't have a clue. The dungeon is rooms within rooms and I kept getting lost. I wasn't fond of having to play a game everytime I needed a flashlight. I didn't like all the other games you were forced to play either. Unfortunately I am still chasing the 13 ghosts around in order to get my next clue. I am finding the whole thing monontonous and somewhat frustrating, not fun!

This game really scared my children!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: March 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have a 13 year old daughter who LOVES the Nancy Drew games. I have bought her so many. She got this one for Christmas. Well, last night, she was playing this game with my ten year old son. I didn't see the game, but from what I gather from their comments, there was a scary thing floating over Nancy's bed. It scared them so bad that they came screaming and running into my living room. It terrified them so much that they didn't want to go to bed alone last night. All three of my children ended up sleeping together in a bed with many lights on.

I would say this is not a family friendly game, and I am not sure why they would make such a thing for children.

This is getting very annoying!!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 29
Date: January 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This will be the third review I wrote! My dad is a cop u know!
I thought this was Grand Theft Auto (as I said the first two times!) when I turned it on peeps were dancing! This game is stupid don't ever getit!

Disturbing gaming experience

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 14
Date: August 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

After playing four other EXCELLENT Nancy Drew games, imagine my shock and dismay after having tried to get into this one. Being in agreement with the other reviewer, I am extremely disappointed that HerInteractive, a company which has put out so many wonderfully family-friendly games, would infuse this one with so much dark and innapropriate subject matter, such as witchcraft, astrology, mysticism and the occult. Not at all what I was expecting, I am sorry to report. My recommendation is to stay far away from this game and the harmful content that it contains.

Terrible Graphics - Not adjustable

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: November 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

After reading great reviews on the Nancy Drew series, I purchased Curse of Blackmoor Manor, installed it and went to play. There is no option for adjusting screen resolution and anyone who has a monitor larger than 15 inches will be terribly disappointed. As this is the 11th game in the series, and fairly recent, it is a shame HerInteractive decided everyone probably has a 5 to 7 year old computer with an inferior graphics card. Even if the game is excellent, the graphics are totally unworthy. Their website offers no solution and does not even address the issue.

It was OK...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: November 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Ok I played this game and it was OK in the beginning but as you progress through the game it gets very boring and I admit the puzzles were kind of purplexing but not as hard as Her Interactive reported it being and it was also NOT as scary as Her Interactive said it would be either... So my conclusion is that The Curse of Blackmoor Manor was a cheesy game, and you SHOULD think twice before purchasing this game from Amazon or anywhere else... If you want a scary Nancy Drew Software Game than I reccomend either The Final Scene or The Message in the Haunted Mansion...

Looking Back, Dissapointed

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

You know, I hate to give a so-so review to a game series I truly love, but I must say Mystery 11: Curse of Blackmoor Manor is sub-par. I was looking forward to this title, as my two favorite games are Message in a Haunted Mansion and Treasure in the Royal Tower, and a similar setting gave me very high hopes. However, there were only a handful of rooms to explore, each one seeming to be from an entirely different time period. This mis-mash greatly detracted from the cohesiveness of the game.

The actual gameplay is much like the previous installments, complete with many perplexing puzzles to keep you intregued throughout the game. As a few other reviewers have noted, this game is very linear, meaning you must finish specific tasks before the game progresses, which diminished the feeling of being a true detective.

The biggest complaint I have, though, is what I, as Nancy Drew, am really trying to do. The overall theme of the adventure is simply not important. No one's life is at stake, there's no ancient secret to uncover, and it doesn't really matter whether or not you solve the mystery. The ending is horribly anti-climactic, and I walked away from the game with a feeling of wasted hours of my life.

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