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2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: November 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My daughter and I have played all of the previous games; we've enjoyed them overall. Some of the games are fantastic, challenging and fun. This game was quite lame in comparison to the others. The puzzles weren't really puzzling, just boring tasks. There were not many clues to find. Because there weren't many clues, there was no real sense of detecting anything. The game ended abruptly and was very short. We did NOT use a walk-through to solve the mystery in record time, just experienced a lack of challenge. We did like the newness of becoming Frank and Joe Hardy occasionally. The rest was pretty boring. If you are looking for a Nancy Drew game, try one of the others instead.

Too short for the money......VERY disappointed!!!!!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: October 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have played every Nancy Drew game that has come out, and I have never been this disappointed!! This was too short, and you didn't even know what the people had done who were arrested in the end!! The story line was good. Seems like it should have really went somewhere, but no, it didn't. The puzzles were too simple (and believe you me, I have the most trouble with puzzles). Very disappointed in HER Interactive! Don't rush it next time...it's better to wait for a great one, than to get it fast and beat it too fast.

Great Idea But the Game Didn't Live Up to It

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: November 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love all the Nancy Drew games, and The Creature of Kapu Cave was not a disapointment. It was a little short, and some of the tasks were booooring, but overall CRE was a really good game. I bought it from Her Interactive ASAP and it was worth it! It was a little slow-moving but still very good. You get to play as the Hardy Boys too by calling them on your cellphone. I didn't like that part much but whatevs. I definatley reccomend buying CRE!

Disappointingly Brief - but the Hardy Boys Were Fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 14
Date: October 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I admit it... I'm a 40 year old addict to the Nancy Drew games. It s a great "retro" escape from work related woes and I special ordered this game to occupy my whole weekend and distract me. To my dismay, the whole game was completed by 1:30 p.m. on Saturday. And that included a lot of extra fishing and bead stringing that was not relevant to the game progress. I loved the addition of the Hardy Boys (always had a crush on them) but that did not make up for the utter lack of puzzling puzzles. I didn't even have to web surf to a cheat to get past the ONE major task. On the whole the game was not up to the standards of the previous ones.

Sheer Boredom

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love the Nancy Drew games and was highly dissapointed with this one. This is definitely the worse game yet. The title sounds exciting, but the game is sheer boredom. The puzzles not only fail to challenge the player, but they are useless and boring. There is barely any mystery-solving in this game. It is mostly comprised of needless and mundane tasks that others are telling Nancy or Frank Hardy to do. Most of these mundane tasks include looking at plant smaples under a microscope, fishing, and making necklaces. Come on HER Interactive, where is the action? the mystery? the intrigue? Let's hope the next one is up to par with the previous Nanvy Drew games.

On a positive note, the graphics were pretty good, but that is it.

Not up to the normal quality

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: January 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was a little disappointed with "The Creature of Kapu Cave". First, it wasn't very challenging, second, the activities were not much fun, and third, it didn't take very long to finish. I have all of the Nancy Drew games and this was my least favorite. The one thing that was interesting and fun was that we switched from Nancy to one of the Hardy boys.

Disapointing for a Nancy Drew game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: November 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Seems like they just huried this game. Too much running around to get answers. The phone did not even have web acsess. Actually i did not like it at all.

Short and Sweet

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: October 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave is the fifteenth game in the Nancy Drew Computer Game series. Based on #143 Mysteri of Maui, Nancy goes on a trip to Hawaii to assist a bug scientist and her findings.

(You) As Nancy Drew go to Hawaii to see and entomologist. However, upon arrival she discovers somone has trashed the camp and Kim Quigley (the entomologist) is missing! Now, it's up to you as Nancy Drew to find out where Kim QUigley went and what happened to the camp.

Some other features in this game are you can play and switch between playing as Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys at any time during the game. This is veyr fun indeed. You also get a sneak preview of the next Nancy Drew game (The White Wolf of Icicle Creek), which (if following the pattern of the release dates of the previous Nancy Drew games) should be released sometime next year around mid-July.

This is one of the shorter Nancy Drew games and an easier one. If your buying your first Nancy Drew game- I highly reccomend you start out with this one. It is not as difficult as some of the past games (Curse of Blackmoor Manor and the Secret of SHadow Ranch are VERY difficult and quite frustrating) but still has a complete feeling you get your money's worth when you complete the game.

My only criticism about the game is it's length, being longer certainly wouldn't hurt, but it was not too short. Definitly a game worth buying though!

Good graphics...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: November 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

...but the game was too simple and too short. I do like Creature of Kapu Cave better than Danger by Design.

While I appreciate the quality of graphics, sound effects, and music, it seems like the producers of the Nancy Drew games have changed hands in recent years. We're seeing a stark difference in the newer games compared to their past games such as: Shadow Ranch, Danger on Deception Island, Treasure in Royal Tower, etc. (Those games are fantastic!) With the recent games, play is not as fluid, the tasks are too simple-minded, there's not much mystery or suspense (if any), and game play time is too short.

In 'Creature', you can collect shells and make necklaces and you can go fishing - for as long as you want to! Or until you get bored with it. The beach and water graphics are cool. There is some humor with some the character conversations. I enjoyed that.

You get to move between four locations that intertwine and make sense. I didn't see any problem with the auto-switching (via cell phone calls) between Nancy and the Hardy Boys. That was not a problem for me. I almost rated this a 3 star, but gave it 4 due to the graphics, characters, and variety of locations.

Hopefully, Her Interactive will hear their customers disappointments and revamp upcoming games. Fans do want the Nancy Drew games to keep coming!

Why bother? No comparison to other Nancy Drew games.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was very disappointed with this game I have all but "Danger By Design" and this one I could have done without. There were no real puzzles in this game. You mostly ran around completing tasks for people. I gave it two stars for: the new GPS map, the cell phone switch, and the scenery. But as for the actual game play I give it 1 star.

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