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It took me nearly 3 days to complete this game. One difficult thing for me was navigating the forest because its all left and right type of a maze. out of all the ND mysteries I solved this is top 10. If you are a Nancy Drew fan and liked other mysteries you'll like this game. The story is interesting and so are the puzzles.
So is calling Bess and George for hints. It does have a replay value, but the puzzles are rather dull that I just don't bother with this game that much.A great game with an excellent story but rather dull puzzles. I was expecting another game like "Message in a Haunted Mansion" when I saw the cover for this game, but although the first scenes in the game were a little freaky, it's not as scary as the box makes it seem.Story-One of your friends, Sally McDonald, has asked you to come help her with a mystery at her house (which is really a log cabin in the middle of nowhere). You soon find out that dogs with glowing eyes have been attacking her house, and they have scared her away. Still, the story is not the least bit scary, but it is still a great story.Length-Not as long as the last one, playing this one through is about 10 hours, but of course, the first time you play it, it will be longer. The voice acting could have been better, but it's not as bad as it's been before.Gameplay-The car you drove up in is blocked by a tree that fell down right behind it, so you have to get around via motorboat, which you have to fix first. Point-and-click is the same.
The puzzles aren't great, but the story really makes up for it. You have to choose day or night, however, and you don't have an alarm clock in this game.Fun-Yeah, this is a fun game, but as before mentioned in other reviews, the puzzles don't have much to do with the story, and they revolve a lot around Roman numerals.
The characters still need some work, and the backgrounds could be better, but overall, I love the graphics.Sound-The music has a slight country twist on it, and although I hate country music the music isn't that bad in the game. Thank goodness.
She won't tell you over the phone what's scaring her, though, and when you get to her house, she's gone. There is a tad bit of history in this game but not as much as in the last game.
I definitely recommend buying it, though. You can call her in the game, so don't think she's been kidnapped or something.Graphics-They were pretty good, and the dogs didn't look that bad.
Also, there are only 3 characters in the game, so it really gives you the feeling that this is definitely not the city anymore.
I dislike having to go to walkthroughs for solutions, but even worse is reading the solution and finding that the writer doesn't know why that's the solution either, it's just simply the way the game works. Instead you're supposed to solve a number of the puzzles not using information gathered from research, but by a conveniently placed modern primer on Roman Numerals. This was very frustrating to find that all the hard sleuthing work would turn up nothing. The game was a good mix of elements. I'm just not a fan of poking things until something works, I like to go in armed with the info to solve the problem.The modern puzzles/tasks were fine and interesting if you're in the mood for a nature hike and learning about birds and birdwatching. The idea of the historical mystery was also good and realistic, it was simply the execution that was lacking.And by that, I mean the puzzles related to the historical componant made no sense. It had a good plot -- find out who is scaring people away with phony ghost dogs and why -- and the three suspects were all interesting and all suspicious in their own way. Or rather made no sense with the information you were given by the historical figure.
I would recommend this game. The only downside to the game was that it seemed shorter than other games. I played this game quite a while ago and I still remember how much fun it was. What I really liked about it was the "spooky" factor that it had.
The dogs give you a nice scare at the beginning. This one was really fun.
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