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Nancy has downs!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 16
Date: June 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Ok, in this game, Nancy's very existence and direction is governed by small yellow arrows. If an arrow doesnt appear in that direction , you cant go that way, For instance, there is a traincar, in which you can only look at two coffee tables! This game is extremely poorly made, and is a blatent insult to digital entertainment. Instead of bieng able to walk seemlessly though a train and freely investigate a crime, you are constricted to whatever the lazy game programmers actually ALLOW you to look at. Never buy this game unless you like playing as a detective so stupid that she barges into haunted mansions without so much as a Derringer to her name! she has down syndrone!!! She tries to open a box by finding a code that wont even work, instead of just taking a screwdriver, and removing the hinges to open the box. nancy is a retard. end of comment.

Nancy Drew: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: January 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Didn't like it. And the kicker is, that it won't uninstall! ARG! Have to reformat the whole harddrive! Avoid!

Looks good but...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Looks good but....unfortunately this game arrived from Interactive and was not playable at all. Very disappointed as it was a Christmas present. All the other Nancy Drew games play just fine...so this one must be a dud. Hope they chuck it away after we return it so no one else gets it.

We'll buy another...but NOT from this company.

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

Not as fun as the other Nancy Drew games...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I love the Nancy Drew game series for its ability to creep me out and make me scared to sleep in my room alone. However I found this particular game lacking. The mystery wasn't as interesting and was more 'find object 1 to unlock object 2' than the usual sleuthing and sneaking that you do in this series. I didn't feel the adrenaline rush that I did with the other games. I would recommend this game if this is you're first Nancy Drew game. Otherwise I would skip it.

Oh Nancy...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When I first saw this game, I got a little too excited. I thought that the name of the train on the front cover was Nancy and who wouldn't get wound up over a train named Nancy? Well, it turns out the train's name is not Nancy. The person playing the game becomes Nancy Drew and that might be a problem for some males. If you don't like being called Nancy, then I wouldn't recommend this game for you. I started thinking about this and it can't be good for sales since the game only caters to half the population (plus guys who don't mind being called Nancy, which I don't think is very common). So if you're ready to become Nancy, slap on those heels and get ready for a wild and mysterious train ride through the land of secrets and Toronto.

Eh....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game was not one of HERinteractive's best. It was way too short (I solved it in about 6 hours), the puzzles were way too easy and the story line was okay. And, I'm not the only one who thinks this either. My friend and her two brothers have the same exact opinion.

Oh, and I just wanted to comment on Katie "bookworm"'s review. The graphics in LTBMC were good, but they were no where near as good as MYST. I've played MYST for years, and the graphics are TONS better than the Nancy Drew games, so don't think that they are the same.

Entrancing graphics, Dull plot and characters

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The graphics in all of the Nancy Drew games keep getting more realistic and fine-tuned. However, I find when there are more characters, they have less personality. Also, Nancy Drew has been invited on this mystery with Frank and George, but she didn't stumble upon it. This made the plot rather dull. It wasn't much of a mystery, but this treasure hunt was more of an adventure. The clues were incredibly simple to figure out, and there even more unanswered questions in this game. If you are the type of person who always has to use wlakthroughs because you get stuck, and enjoys basic characters, then this is the game for you.

OK but not great

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I had just finished Shadow Ranch (one of the best games in the ND series) and Deception Island when I started on this one, so I guess I had higher expectations than this could meet. It isn't a bad game-it's just that there seems to be no real mystery. You're goal is to find a mine, not to put someone behind bars-and most of the other characters just seem to be along for the ride (including a Paris Hilton-type character.) Most of the time it seemed like I was wandering through the train finding and solving puzzles that seemed to have no (immediate) effect on anything. Overall it's not a bad game (you finally get to meet the Hardy Boys-they're not, incidentially, as cute as they're cracked up to be, and almost entirely worthless to the outcome of the game, but anyway....) just not one of the very best. Still, if you're a die-hard ND fan, (or a newbie) you're probably going to like it, more or less.

Fun, but a little scary

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a fun game, but I got creeped out from all the talk of ghosts. It is pretty hard, as you have to figure out a lot of puzzles and open a lot of locked boxes and doors before progressing on to the next part of the game. I was disapointed when I learned that Frank and Joe Hardy will not help me much. They prefer to sit in the dining car and sort through evedence. It is a pretty scary mystery because strange things have happened on the train and everyone thinks that the ghost of the train conductor's wife has done it. That, along with the rumblings that the train makes and all the big empty cars, make for a creepy game. My favorite part is finally catching on to a part that was giving me trouble. Still, if you are one of the chicken-hearted, DON'T GET THIS GAME!

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