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WOW!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Normally, when I write reviews for Nancy Drew games, I start out by listing the cons, and then the pros. However, for this game, that system is a little corrupt... I can't find any cons! Honestly. That's how good this game is.
The plot was fantastic. I was hooked from the very millisecond I started playing. I mean, ND has thrown a lot of 'haunted' stuff at us in the past: two haunted houses, a bunch of ghosts who happen to be a pack of dogs, and, heck, they've even made a haunted merry-go-round look good. A haunted train seems like a bit of 'same ol' same ol' when you first look at it, but, once you start playing, it becomes apparent that this is not just your average haunting. There are no creepy noises and only one ghost sighting that might've not been, but the train sure had one heck of a history behind it!
The previous owner of the train, Jake Hurley, had previously owned the train a century or two ago. He was a miner, and it was claimed that he had some mine with a bunch of gold or something in it that nobody else knew about. Well, Jake vanished off the face of the earth ages ago, his wife Camille dropped dead for no apparent reason shortly before this, and the train's engineer was found dead in a room that was locked from the inside. And, just after the train sets out (with Nan and the Hardy boys in tow) their hostess mysteriously vanishes. Even without the spooky noises and ghost sightings, the train is still full of remnants of the days in which Jake and Camille lived in it. The way the story is presented, the player has absoloutly no doubt that Jake, Camille, and possibly the engineer still haunt the train.
The graphics, compared to previous games, were marvelous. Only HerInteractive could make a bunch of antique dolls look hauntingly frightening! The ghost sighting was very realistic, and so were the NPCs and the scenery. Everything, overall, was very well-done.
The puzzles ranged from relativly easy to absoloute brain roasters, although none were so hard that I had to get outside help (I was 14 at the time I played the game). They were well thought out, and fit in easily with the plot of the game.
Another thing I was pleased with when it came to this game was that the makers of the game weren't really trying to push you to think that ghosts are real or that they aren't. The one ghost expert on the train had evidence that was lame and unconvincing, and the one ghost sighting had a possible logical explanation, so if you don't believe in ghosts and wanted to believe that the train wasn't haunted, you were perfectly free to believe that. Most 'haunted' games that I've played are one way or the other: absoloutly no logical explanations, so the place MUST be haunted, or lots of heaps of explanations, so the place can't possibly be haunted. The game has a lot of wiggle room when it comes to that.
The only cons I can possibly come up with are two: the ending, although it lived up to all the hype surrounding ND endings, was relativly easy to escape. If you used trial and error, you would have no problem escaping the culprit's clutches. Another one was when it came to one of the NPC's by the name of Fatima. She was so incredibly goofy and hillbilly-ish that I always imaging that she had some booze or something underneath that dorky plastic costume she always wore. I mean, come on. Nobody's THAT dumb. Are they?? The tone of the game was dark and mysterious with a dash of scary-ness, but Fatima (and her general store, for that matter) just jolted you out of that like a piolot ejector seat. And then, in the very same town, you visited Camille's crypt, which was probably height of the scary-ness of the game. It just didn't make sense to me.
Overall, I thought, this game was the best out of all the ND games. Dark, mysterious, not toned to little kids, and very believable with a great history behind it. My advice: BUY NOW!!

Nancy's Train Ride was Short Lived

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: August 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This review is in reference to "Nancy Drew: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon Game + Strategy Guide" edition.


I've played 3 or 4 of the Drew games. This one played faster and was over before the time it took to install the game.

Before I had installed 'Blue Moon Canyon', I had installed "Morrowind the Game of the Year Edition", which sold for five dollars less than 'Blue Moon Canyon'. Morrowind is a huge 4 disc game that has, at the bare minimum, 400 hours of gameplay, and possibly might literally be endless. The entire Morrowind set had been installed and up and running within 15-20 minutes.

After I had installed and played 'Blue Moon Canyon' we installed and got up and running "Age of Mythology Gold" also within 20 minutes. This is another massive game, a Real Time Strategy game that included the expansion pack "The Titans". Both 'Mythology' games were completely installed. This is another game that can be played and explored for years. The two game set sold for five dollars more than 'Blue Moon Canyon', or the original full retail price of the strategy guide edition.

"The Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon" took so long to download...we went out for dinner and let it download while we were gone. We have a P4 at 3.2Ghz, an 80GB HD, of which only 23GB were used, and 1.5 GB of RAM. There is no reason on earth why Nancy Drew games should take so long, over an hour, to download...unless their copy protection program conflicted with our Toshiba Super-Multi Drive drivers.

The actual installation was not as painful as the download. What was painful was the gameplay. I had a lot of fun playing the 'Secret of the Old Clock'. Whereas most of the Amazon user reviews came across as lukewarm to the game, I liked playing the golf game, and the car chase, and the "bank shots" of reflective light beams to be aligned. I even felt proud when I finally got the sewing completed.

I knew that the Drew games wouldn't deliver the value that the two games (mentioned above) did. But after the reading the reviews of 'Blue Moon' I expected to have more fun than I did with 'Secret', even though I knew it would be short lived.

What a let down. The game was over in two or three hours. Most of the gameplay was a memory test of what order what button was pushed or stick was knocked over, or which way the track leaned to. The 'arcade' games in the General Store were just hit the button or in this case 'click the mouse'. You didn't even have to look. The most complicated task was getting a piece of paper to do a rubbing. It was very boring.

Between the price, the concern over the length of the download, the most unimaginative gameplay set to walking back and forth on a train, I cannot recommend this game as being fun. It had a few moments with the Math/scale problems but it wasn't enough to carry the game or balance the huge amount of needless dialogue the player has to endure listening to.

I realize I'm an adult, but the eight year-old little girl (I bought it for) lost interest after the first 15 minutes. She was wiser than I.

Sorry Nance, this one is a waste of money, and might contribute to hardware damage with driver conflicts.

marf

One Player's Two Centsworth

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Nancy Drew games are the best. They're fun, they have nice puzzles, they have interesting characters/graphics/music, and they seem to be well thought out. I notice that many reviews for other games compare/contrast with Nancy Drew games, and with good reason--after more than a dozen games to draw from, Nancy Drew is swiftly becoming a "bench test" for other games. I also notice that many of the ND fans are in their thirties, like myself. Going through one of these games is something that a young girl can do but it's also something that we can do with members of our families--children, husbands, etc... It's wonderful how Nancy Drew has grown over the years, updating her phones as technology allows and such. Yet, she retains good, healthy habits. (If she opens a drawer to find something, then she *closes* it before walking away. She substitues healthy beverages for sodas with her meals.) There are always interesting things to learn in ND games. On the train in BMC, you can find information on semi-precious stones and, as in other ND games, there's a little piano playing as well. The "ghost hunter" is interesting, showing the little recording and pictures of "Camille" and giving Nancy an explanation of the dancing lights in terms of piezoelectricity. There's always so much to learn and investigate.

This is definitely one of the best ND games yet.

An Amazing Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a game that I highly recommend because Herinteractive did a great job and took their time on making this game.
The games is about you as Nancy Drew getting invited by the Hardy boys to help crack the case about what happened to Jake Hurley.
On the way you meet Lori Giard, the host of the game, The Hardy Boys, Charlenna Purcell (from Secret of Shadow Ranch),
John Gray, a ghost expert, and Tino Balducci a detective.
In the game you can talk to all of them and do favors for them like usual. The game also has alot more video clips and puzzles. The video clips in the game have good graphics and the game doesn't load so you don't have to wait a while to get back to your oringal screen. The puzzles in the game are easy and hard. A couple of the puzzles in the game did get me stumped bad like the dool puzzle where you have to line them up ,and figure out there names, put them into inatlis then make them spell out a word, or this weird machine room inside the train where you have to find several items to get it working to find Jake's mine.
So anyway like I said, I really recomond this game for big Nancy Drew fans out there and thats why i rate the game 5 stars.

Best one yet-out of all 13!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game was sooo good! I highly recomend it! I really liked how you never know what's going to happen next!!! And now you have a camera phone!! Bes and George are also always there to help as always! I liked that.If you're a Nancy Drew fan you should get this game!!! Why else would I give it a 5 star rating?!?! ANd there are also some SPOOKY surprises waiting for you!!!
I almost thoughtI was going to cry at the end because it was over!!!!!!!!!!ANyway i think you shoul get it even if you aren't a Nancy Drew fan!

I LOVE THIS GAME!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love Nancy Drew games! They will keep you at the edge of your seat and I recomend them to anyone 10+.

nancy drew computer games

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

"The Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon" and every Nancy Drew game in this series (aside from the very first one)....has been so enjoyable for my daughter and me! I grew up a Nancy Drew book fan, and my daughter has read all the books. Now, we are fans of the computer games. We have not only had fun playing these games, but we have also learned alot in a variety of subject areas; from historical Mayan facts to logic puzzles. It's been so much fun! We collect the Nancy Drew games and we can't wait for the next one (Danger By Design) to come out! Thanks for the fun ride, Her Interactive!.

One Of My Favorites

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

In this Nancy Drew game the setting mainly takes place on the a train heading to Blue Moon Canyon. In this case you finaly get to meet the Hardy Boys who give you helpful hints when needed. There a couple challanging puzzels but some of them are easy. If you love competiton well its on because another detective on the train named Tino is trying to prove that you need a proffesional detective to solve any case. So its up to you as Nancy Drew to solve the mystery and pove Tino wrong.

Nancy Drew

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have played several Nancy Drew games and this is by far the best one. I recommend this game to anyone.

A lot of fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I liked this game. This was different than the other Nancy Drew games. I think it's worth playing.

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