They know who their audience is they should have figured out by now Really should have found their sea legs by now. But twelve games into this series, the designers
It does still have a controllable interface,īug-free gameplay, nice graphics, some decent puzzles, and a theme with good kid appeal. I probably would have cut this game a lot more slack if it wasn't a Nancy Drew game. The player is probably going to feel the same way. So frustratingly boring, menial and time-wasting that you find yourself writing lines for the heroine herself about how annoying it is,
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Here's a piece of free advice : if you're writing a game, and you're making the heroine perform a series of tasks that are Screens worth of boring dialogue that you can't page past once you've read it because the interface won't let you move on until theĪudio has finished playing, culminating in a 6-minute recording of a boring radio show that you MUST sit there and listen all the way To do anything about it till the pre-scripted endgame if you figure out who the villain is, and screens and So I got to see all its faults up close and personal : dull minigames,Īrtificial puzzles, unskippable repeated animations, lots of tedious errands to run, a mystery that isn't much of one, an inability Weren't about to let me make that decision for them. We can make her stop playing before the end!" Well, they probably could have, except I play this series with my children, who Game in which we put every single thing that annoyed her from previous games, and none of the things she liked! Bet you five dollars It's almost as though the game designers read all my previous reviews and said "Hey, let's make a Here's all the news about Secret of the Old Clock that's fit to print, just not on the no-spoiler review site.īoy, was this game a drag.
Hey, who knows, maybe the Nancy Drew design team'll read this page and be inspired to put a few more twists and turns in their next title.Īh, well, maybe it'll amuse my friends, anyway. Tell you everything you need to decide whether or not to play this game without giving away any of its plot.īackseat Game Designers pages are primarilyĪ place for me to put all my game commentary that was too revealing for the regular reviews, as well as a place to tell everyone exactly how *I* would have done the Please go back to the regular review site, where I promise to If you haven't finished playing Secret of the Old Clock yet, you don't want to read this page. This is the addendum to my Nancy Drew Game Review in which I put all my opinions The Backseat Game Designer: The Rest of The Secret of the Old Clock Review Secret of the Old Clock Hints Secret of the Old Clock Walkthrough Secret of the Old Clock Cheats Secret of the Old Clock Spoilers The Backseat Game Designer: Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock
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