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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 15
Date: December 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I read Nancy Drew religiously in my early teenage years so I was really anxious to try these games when I heard of them. I really wished I had skipped this though. It was terrible. The graphics are too cartoonish. The characters are flat and one dimensional. It doesn't take very long at all to play. I finished it in a fraction of the 20 hours that the package promises. And the thing I disliked most about it was all of the coded messages. It has a lot of messages hidden around but they do not advance you in the game and do nothing more than give away each of the characters secrets. The messages just kill any suspense in the game. Oh and the game also has two discs and you have to go keep going from one disc to the other throughout the game. It's not too much of an inconvience, but this game just isn't worth it. I don't recommend this game unless you just have to own all of them.

worst one ever!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: August 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i have played and beaten all the nancy drews and this was my LEST favorit ones.the graphics were cartoons and you dont even get to meet the bad guy.do not ever play this game!!!!!!

don't buy this one

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

i really love all the other nancy drew game but this one is really bad. theres two cds which you constantly have to change throughout the entire game as you go from place to place. The graphics are awful. I have a really good computer and it was still freezing it so i had to start over. all the sluething i did during the game didn't really matter by the time i caught.
i would really recommend you choose some other nd game besides this one becuase this ones just a dud

YUCK

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: February 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I did not like this game at all. It is buggy and the Save and Load area is slow and does not work very well. I also dislike the switching back and forth between DISC 1 and 2. Save your money, this game not worth the money. Buy something else.

I want my money back.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I was extremely disappointed with this game. First of all, it didn't take very much time at all to play. The package claims that the program has 20+ hours of game play but I finished it in about six hours. The ending of it was pathetic. It was way too easy to catch the bad guy. I also thought that the graphics weren't very good at all. And the program has two cds and you have to keep switching back and forth between the two and I found that to be really annoying. I'd only recommend this game to the die hard fans who have to own everything with Nancy Drew's name on it.

Secrets Can Kill Your Computer

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Buyer beware: This was the second copy of this game I have purchased - I returned the first copy when I couldn't get it to install on my computer. My PC is new (purchased July 2005) and has plenty of power and memory, but this game crashed my computer three times, and the last time - immediately after I uninstalled the game - it had a hard time recovering from the crash. (I have played three of the later Nancy Drew games on the same computer with no problems.) In addition, the game is muddled and confusing, with a poor plotline and an unsatisfying ending. It relies too heavily on decoding secret message after secret message (most of which did nothing to help me advance the game), and not enough on sleuthing or interacting with the other characters. Switching between discs was no big deal at first, but about halfway through the game, it started to accelerate until I was switching discs every 5 minutes (NOT an exaggeration). I absolutely DO NOT recommend this game - go buy one of the later Nancy Drew games instead.

Awful!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I absolutely DO NOT recommend this game. First of all, it was way too easy. I finished it in about 4 hours and since it is really no fun after you've played it once, I felt that the game was a total waste of money. Secondly, the game contains two discs and you have to keep switching back and forth between them which is positively annoying. Third, the graphics look way too cartoonish. I wouldn't really mind the cartoonish graphics if everything else about the game was cool, but it's not. I would not recommend paying money for this game unless you've played all the other games and are just desperate for another.

Dissapointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

...First of all, I noticed there were two CD's, which got to be extremely annoying when I was playing the game. The characters were to cartoon like, they didn't have a lot of dialog, and they were..well...quite boring to be honest with you. There wasn't enough puzzles and clues either, making the game lack in excitement and mystery. The game was really short, and I really didn't like the ending. All in all, I really wouldn't recommend this game to anyone unless you like staring at your computer screen and clicking aimlessly on stuff and solving a boring mystery in just a couple of hours. But I would definetly recommend Nancy Drew: Treasure In A Royal Tower (lots mystery and fun mixed with a lot of interesting French History)and Nancy Drew: Message In A Haunted Mansion (nice story line, and it was really fun and didn't bore you to death like Secrets can Kill. It also has a lot of interesting Chinese history)...

Lower than the LOWEST LOW!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: January 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game [is bad]. Period. I would rate it negative 500000 if I could. I mean, you can buy a LOAD of Nancy Drew games and love em all and trash this one. But the teachers lounge IS kind of cool.......... Wish you could e-mail me but I can't give you that vital info. Too bad if you are a challenger seeking a debate.

DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I BOUGHT SECRETS CAN KILL AND WAS VERY EXCITED!I LOADED IT ON TO MY COMPUTER,AND I WAS VERY DISAPOINTED!I HAD DIFFICULTY TRYING TO GET NANCY TO TALK!I HAD TO CLICK THE WORD I WANTED SEVERAL TIMES BEFORE I ACTUALLY GOT HER TO TALK!THERE WERE SEVERAL OTHER PROBLEMS LIKE I COULDN'T GET TO THE SCHOOL,AND THE CHARACTERS TALKED VERY SLOW!EVERY OTHER NANCY DREW GAME IS GOOD!BUT DON'T WASTE YOUIR MONEY BUYING SECRETS CAN KILL!

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