But even with the busywork I finished the game within five hours feeling that it had ended almost before it began.Ĭlock is one of the shortest and easiest games in the series, and the main reason to buy it is that there's not much else to buy this time of year. Since this isn't especially fun I couldn't understand the reason for its inclusion until I reached the end of the game and realized that it was simply a desperate effort to stretch out the playing time. To get around town, Nancy has a roadster, and to earn gas money she must deliver telegrams to the locals. The game design feels a little lazy, as in a generally amusing miniature golf game that doesn't give you enough room to swing the club in some spots, or in such ridiculous plot devices as a banker who insists Nancy sew a dress before he will unlock a safety deposit box.
The puzzles are interesting but among the easiest of the series, and the mini-games are generally fun but poorly integrated into the story.
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To find out, Nancy must work her way through a series of puzzles and activities, decoding clues, answering a logic quiz and playing a variety of mini-games.Ĭlock is pleasant but inconsequential. Her only hope to save the inn was the promised inheritance from an eccentric neighbor, but instead a will was found leaving the entire estate to a local psychic. This first mystery of Nancy's illustrious career revolves around a destitute young innkeeper. The game is based on the first Nancy Drew book, published in 1930, and Her Interactive has decided to replace the modern Nancy of previous games with a Depression-era version who reads a newspaper headline on the recent discovery of Pluto and talks to people who use words like moxie and jeepers. I began my journey with the grand old lady of teenage heroines, Nancy Drew, starring in the latest of Her Interactive's adventure game series, Secret of the Old Clock. While I could claim this as a journey to explore my feminine side, the real reason is less profound: there just wasn't anything else to do.
In the last couple of weeks I have been vicariously living the lives of a series of spunky teenage heroines, engaging in typical heroine activities like collecting clues, trekking through the Amazon and saving the world.