Nancy Drew: Danger on Deception Island
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| | Product Details: Release Date: 03 October 2003 Publisher: Her Interactive Rating:   Sales Rank: 4127 | | Look for similar items by category: | | Customers who bought this item also bought:
| | Customer Reviews: Plunge into Peril and Excitement in Danger on Deception Island!! (14 July 2010)From canoeing to playing games in a whale-watching headquarters, this well-thought out game had it all. I have played most of the games in the series and was very pleased with this one. It was on my Christmas list and the first one I played, partly because of the intriguing-looking cover. I'm now very glad I chose this one as my first to play, because I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm going to divide this review into sections and rate each particular area how many stars I think it deserves. Setting/Graphics- Okay, the graphics were incredible!! The characters looked genuine, and the beaches were pretty. The water looked amazing: it was just so REAL-looking!! I loved the graphics!! Unfortunately, the setting disappointed me just a little bit because it was dark, gloomy, and foggy on Snake Horse Harbor. I prefer the bright, sunny games to the dark, gloomy ones, but that is okay. It didn't ruin the game, and I suppose that it looked realistic, though depressing. That is the only reason I'm giving the setting/graphics a measly 4 stars. Plot- You don't really know there is one until you start the game. But just moments after you begin, you see that the boat you're staying on has been vandalized!! You learn later in the game that the boat is not the first place to be vandalized or stolen from recently. But why? Your goal is to find out why all these strange accidents are happening, and by who. Nice plot that is a little different from other ND games, I'll rate 5 stars easily. Characters- There are the typical ND amount of characters in this game, plus the usual Bess and George, Frank and Joe Hardy and such. I'll separate the characters and briefly describe each one. Katie Firestone is the young lady whose boat you are staying on. She is really into sea life, but spends most of her time in this game fixing her engine that the culprit tore apart. Katie is not well-liked in the harbor, and often doesn't see eye-to-eye with the other characters, but accepts that fact pretty well This character is a good asset to Deception Island. Jenna Deblin runs the Hot Kettle Cafe and has for two years. She is kind, and you can eat her delicious clam chowder and blueberry muffins if you're bored. Jenna is a sort of average person, and nothing about her really stands out that much. But that does not at ALL whatsoever make her a bad character; she's probably my favorite. Holt Scotto spends his day usually at the Hot Kettle drinking coffee. He's running for harbormaster, and the time he spends not in the cafe he usually spends at campaign meetings, but that's funny because he isn't exactly what you'd call a politician. Katie despises him, and the feeling is pretty mutual. Holt's a little amusing at times, especially when he flips out if you try to get into the lighthouse when he's watching you. A good, solid character. Andy Jason runs a whale-watching business just like Katie. But his is all decked out, and is at a special place called Whale World. You can play games in her center, and he is the friendliest of all the characters to Nancy, though I find him slightly obnoxious and WAYYYYYY too enthusiastic about what he does. Even so, he fits well into the game. A character you can never meet face-to-face but is a HUGE and crucial part of the game is an older lady named Hilda Swenson. She went "crazy" after her husband died, and moved to land across from Snake Horse Harbor without taking any possessions along with her so she could escape all the people of the harbor, whom she grew bored of. Hilda has a lively personality and is very active, and a request she makes to Nancy is a major part of the case. I have nothing to complain about the characters, they are all very different and have different stories to tell. Great characters!! I'll give them 5 stars. Transportation- There are two methods of transportation in this game: bike and canoe. By bike you can go to 4 places: Katie's boat, the Hot Kettle Cafe, Whale World, and the Lighthouse. If you're traveling by canoe, you can get lost and go anywhere you want, but sophisticated places to go are the beach, the sea caves, and a few places in the water that Hilda assigns you where to go. Unlike some ND games, there are plenty different atmospheres and places to go. All the transportation stuff I'll present with 5 stars. Puzzles- Great!! The puzzles were fun and didn't usually require cheats, but not so easy that they took you five minutes to figure out. There weren't really any "big" puzzles, and you wouldn't know right off the bat that it was a puzzle, but you can't really qualify them as anything else. They were fun to solve and as usual about half the game. The puzzles were brilliant, so I'll easily give them 5 stars. Ending- I was very, very, very pleased with the ending of this game!! It all happened so well and fit together perfectly. I won't give you too many details, but I'll say that this ending is one of the best ones!! There was a bit of a twist and it made playing this game all worth it. Unlike some of the ND games, this ending was brilliant. It didn't leave you feeling cheated, and it fit well as a part of the game. I'll give it 5stars before you can say "Alacadabra!!" Extras- This game, along with most Nancy Drew games, had various things you could do other than solving the case. You could go to Whale World's centers and play 4 different mini-games. Also, you could visit the Hot Kettle Cafe and eat lots of clam chowder and muffins. Lastly, you could go to the beach and build sandcatles or tickle a goldfish. The extras came in fun bundles, and I'm glad they were there. They deserve 5 stars. They were great to play when you got bored of or stuck in the mystery. Though I didn't find myself get bored, they were fun do anyway. Overall- Altogether, this game was FAB!! It was SO much fun to play the first time, and the second, and the third, and on and on and on. You will not be disappointed if you purchase Danger on Deception Island. And, for the final tally- Setting/Graphics- 4 stars Plot- 5 stars Characters- 5 stars Transportation- 5 stars Puzzles- 5 stars Ending- 5 stars Extras- 5 stars Add those up: 34, and divide by 7, and round to a total of: 4.9 stars!! Yay!! Thanks so much for taking the time to read my review!! I really hope it helped!! Nancy Drew rocks (17 June 2010)The Nancy Drew series is one of the best available for kids, and Deception Island is one of the best games. The graphics are great, and the music is better, and the whole island has a great atmosphere. The puzzles are clever and every character is interesting--I recommend it to any one of any age or gender. The game that got me addicted to Nancy Drew games (06 February 2010)Well this was the first Nancy Drew game that I ever got and I was about oh 10 when I got it. After about 20 minutes of playing it I loved it. ^_^ Graphics: The graphics are not as good as the newer games but that happens with every game, but back to this game. It has some rough areas every here and there and sometimes may leave an after image but it doesn't happen very often. over all in the graphics area it's great. Gameplay: The game play is pretty simple ((a rough draft of the story line)) Nancy Drew ((the main character and also the person you will be playing as)) Is visiting Katty Firestone ((a friend of Nancy's friends Bess and Gorge)) for the week. When you get there her boat has been messed with O_O. This then starts nancy's instinct to find out who did it. This leads to puzzle,((WOO!)) exploring, talking to people and playing some games in the game. Well thats a rough draft of the story line. Sound: The sound is great but sometimes for me it was slow and took a few seconds to......become hearable. Other then that it's really good. Places: You can go to 4 different places ((Katty's boat, The light house, The cafe and a little game slash souveniar shop.)) Each place has lots of stuff you can such as at Katty's boat u can make food for your self to eat. At the game slash souveniar shop u can play about 5 to 6 games and also learn about sea animals. At the cafe you can, right you guessed it EAT ((WOO!!)). At the light house u can wonder around and find clams and crabs. over all it's a really good game thats fun, fun and you guessed it again fun. I would buy it for anyone who loves puzzles or who loves to learn. Too many coordinates (14 December 2009)This is one of the best games in the series, I think, but there are just a few tiny issues I have with it, and therefore, I can not give it 5 stars. However, this what I thought of it. Story-Bess and George have arranged for you to vacation with one of George's friends, in a place called Snake Horse Harbor. She owns a whale watching tour business, and when you arrive you find out that someone has vandalized her boat. She sets to work repairing it as you question suspects to find out that a whale recently spotted in the water might be what has driven someone to wrecking Katie's boat. Graphics-In this game, they were a little hazy, but that works perfectly with the story, as the island you are on is foggy year round. The characters were pretty much the same as the last game. Sound-The music is not that upbeat. It's rather lazy music. Pretty much makes you think you can just take your time with this mystery. And you can. Although you can die, it's usually from stupidity on your part and not because someone attacked you or something. Gameplay-The third person point-and-click hasn't changed, and neither has your cell phone. As in the last game you have your cell phone to call people whenever you have a signal. But sometimes you don't have a signal which is realistic but annoying. The puzzles in this game are kind of hard, and they require patience and logic. This makes the game last a little bit longer. As in the title, I DID NOT like all the coordinations that you have to find in this game. You have a GPS, and it seems every challenge is to find a new coordinate. Not fun. Fun-Other than that, the game's puzzles are really quite fun in spite of their difficulty. The mystery is fun, too, as everyone has a motive to have vandalized Katie's boat. Length-The game lasted me a few weeks, but I think playing it straight through takes about 10 hours. This is a near perfect game, but because of just a few flaws I have to take a star away. Don't let that discourage you from getting it, though. This is a must have for fans of the series! A game of second chances (28 November 2009)This is beyond a doubt the Nancy Drew game that killed me the most, and I do not consider that a good thing. Nancy apparently can't even ride a bike or kayak unless you remind her every time to put her safety gear on. It gets a little old, particularly when you want to run off and explore a new clue, so you click on transportation only to die and then have to reload. The ending is very suspenseful, but a lot of it is left to chance (read reloading). I may as well finish up with the one other bad point, the puzzles. Some of them were quite good. But you get to a point where you're communicating directly on the phone with the person giving you some of these puzzles, and she refuses to tell you point blank what she wants, insisting that you must run hither, thither, and yon at her command, and thus keeping you from solving the mystery. Consider it a personality quirk, but I don't do pointless tasks in real life, and I don't consider them fun to do as part of a story in a game either. I lost all interest in completing that series of puzzles, and read the answers on a walkthrough so that I could get BACK to the mystery, which is the whole point of the game so far as I am concerned. Now to the positives: I'm not normally a science buff, but I enjoyed looking at samples under a microscope and describing them. The Whale World exhibit was beautiful and informative. The kayaking landscapes were also beautiful. The mystery was well-crafted, and the suspects are well developed and diversely modeled. I would have preferred more intereaction with them, but what did occur was good. And this is definitely the game to get for children interested in marine life or sailing. |
