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Nancy Drew: The White Wolf of Icicle Creek

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I don't think this is one of Her Interactive's better games. The two mini-games are very frustrating. You cannot continue the game until you are successful at both of these games. The walkthroughs don't help either.

The story line is interesting, and I do like some of the activities that Nancy is required to complete as a maid. Cooking the food for each meal is a good memory exercise. Another mini-game (I think it's called the duck and wolf game) is fun.

I have stopped playing the game half way through because several puzzles lack logical steps in solving them and I had to resort to the walkthrough to move forward. After reading the walkthrough, I even went back in the game and tried to find the clues that would have moved me in the correct direction, but I couldn't find them. Oh well - I am a little ADHD and it is easy for me to overlook blaringly apparent pieces of information. Needless to say, this type of frustration has soured the game playing experience for me.

I have enjoyed all the other Nancy Drew games and one dud will not keep me from buying other Her Interactive games.

The Wolf= Amazing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I loved this game. I think it was because of how the wolf had a lot to do with it. Many people wouldn't think of a wolf to use in a game the way HerInteractive did. The end does take a while which makes it be very annoying and the ending wasn't as thrilling as some of the other ND games. I think HerInteractive is running out of ideas for the chase. But, other than that, the game was really fun and of course, there are more different types of puzzles. Great game for ND lovers.

Nancy Drew-Detective or Cook???!?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love the Nancy Drew games and find them fun, but challenging! This one was more on the challenging side and less on the fun. When I say challenging I mean tediously annoying! First of all, I thought Nancy Drew was a detective not a maid and cook. It is very time consuming to have to cook meals for 6 every 4 hours. You put too many slices of lettuce on a burger and you have to start all over again. Also, this Nancy game seemed a bit too far fetched. How does winning one game 3 times in the lodge make something happen to a map in the needle, 2 miles away? I don't know how I would have gotten through this without a cheat sheet. I found myself looking at it time and time again to figure out how to do some mindless game. And don't even get me started on the ending! I think real snowmobiling is easier to do then the computer animated version!

Save your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've played all of the Nancy Drew games with my daughter, and this is by far the worst. For one, although we were able to play all the other games just fine, this one suddenly required a memory upgrade to play. After the upgrade (thanks Her Interactive for thinking of us parents!), plus updating all my drivers and video cards, we finally get to play. And boy was that an enjoyable experience! The story is terrible, and the game is tedious, if not annoying. The characters are all unlikeable, from the hired hand who spends the entire game working on a foot trap for a wolf (nice touch!) to the self-absorbed owner of the cabin who puts profits before people (great message). My daughter, who has played all the games, became frustrated many times, as she was stopped from progressing in the game, for some arbitrary reason (a phone call needed to be made or she had to follow a specific order). After one tedious task after another, we finally make it to the end of the game. Then we "enjoyed" a snowmobile chase that took at least hundred times of mind numbing repetition to get to the final scene and completely hokey explanation. Finally, the mystery is completely third-rate - there is absolutely no motivation for the villain, and nothing in the game seems to lead to anything mildy resembling a coherent solution.

Save your money. This is the turkey of all turkeys.

disappointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

We have purchased and played every Nancy Drew game as a family. Our kids currently range in age from 6-15. We have been playing these for 6 or 7 years. Although there are some interesting twists and turns, overall this game lacked the excitement of many of the prior games. The kitchen,the snowball fight, and the snowmobile chase were all boring and repetitive. We like the puzzles which require thinking and remembering, and there are precious few in this game. This game also had so few characters and such a limited setting that it lacked much depth. This was our least favorite of all the Nancy Drew games. We hope for improvement in future games.

Give this game a cold shoulder

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you enjoy doing the same thing over and over this could be the game for you. Very slow moving and actions are greatly restricted.

Not So Hot!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My 5-year-old daughter and I just finished Kapu Cave, which we both enjoyed playing together. My daughter was then looking forward to this newest release. But...

Firstly, it wouldn't run video at all (only audio) on our older laptop which runs XP. Very annoying start to say the leaast! We borrowed my husband's...

Then started playing - er, cooking...tediously...MANY times a day...completely interfering with our progress in the game. After a couple of days, we finally just stopped playing White Wolf, and my daughter hasn't asked about it since.

We hope the next game doesn't involve tedious "chores." We have enough of those already. Give us some real clues!

Be aware there are technical difficulties with this game!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: June 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Up until about 70% of the way through this game I was giving it a 5 star rating. The first technical glitch, about 40% into the game, involved not being able to move the game forward any further. Couldn't talk to anyone, go anywhere new, etc. Finally I discovered technical glitch #1: I couldn't just have Nancy say "better not go any further or else ___(insert something bad happening here)____" to trigger the game to move forward; I had to actually have her die and go through a second chance. Then, the game let me move forward. That was the minor glitch.

The major glitch happened 70% of the way through the game. I don't want to give away too much here. This game for Windows XP & Vista lets you do many cool new things. There are pop up windows that let you look at phone numbers, notes, items you can use, etc. while still seeing through the window at what's behind it on the screen. The pop up window takes up about 1/4 of your screen so it's nice to be able to see behind it. Another window that pops up later in the game has a series of commands you use to solve a puzzle, and you only need this window when you are in one particular location during the game until you solve that puzzle. The major glitch is this: at one point the window pops up on the screen and never goes away for the rest of the game. You still need to access the other window that lists the items you can use (which are shown in 4 columns), but you can't click directly on any of the items in the window.

My 12 and 13 year old daughters and I have loved playing the Nancy Drew games for years. We finally found a way around the window problem, which involved clicking on the edge of an outer column to pick up only the item in that outer column, and the maneuvering was quite involved to be able to retrieve an item that was located in one of the two inner columns.

Happily, we were able to finish playing the game and it was a fun game. We did look at the HerInteractive.com website for hints on how to get around the glitches, but there was little there at the time because the game had just come out. However, we discovered that the glitches were not triggered by everyone who played the game, so I can only assume the glitches occur if you perform certain functions in a given order. You should be able to find plenty of hints now for how to work around these glitches.

As with all the Nancy Drew games, some people like some puzzles better than others--that's simply a matter of personal taste. But the game was more enjoyable for us than some of the other more recent ND games, and we liked the newer features.

Best game after deception island

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: June 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game was so good i can actually compare it to my my favorite nancy game danger on deception island. the graphics were amazing. But the ending wasent like the other games Ive played where you actually have to think. the snowbobileling was really a bad way to end the game. The puzzles were satisfying because they were hard enough where you had to actually think about them but not so hard I had to go online for hints. making meals was a little disapointing but still fun. Ive only played 3 of the nancy game but The wolf of icicle creek made me really excited for the the next one that I play.

Other than the cooking, great fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: July 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I played this as senior detective for the first time and enjoyed it. The only nuisance was all the cooking you had to do in the midst of sleuthing. I thought the games were simpler than before except for snowmobile chases, just cause I'm no good at that stuff. Overall, good mystery and lots of suspects. Enjoy!

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