cast of nancy drew warnings at waverly academy

#Cast of nancy drew warnings at waverly academy movie#
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#Cast of nancy drew warnings at waverly academy tv#

Yet these boffins all seem to lump their projects onto you (at least two puzzles involve taking photos for a website). The part of the school Nancy investigates houses students aiming for Valedictorian, which comes with a fully-paid college scholarship. Along the way you find items that are useful later in the game, such as journals and notes to read, keys to unlock doors, etc. It's pure puzzle/adventure gaming as Nancy wanders about talking to people. No hidden object scenes here (though, oddly enough, I was expecting some. Warnings at Waverly Academy follows a familiar formula that combines puzzle-solving with NPC conversations that uncover new leads to follow, as well as mini-games for variation.

#Cast of nancy drew warnings at waverly academy series#

Her games, perhaps not incidentally, share a similar trend, with over 20 in the series since the late 90s, each from the same developer, Her Interactive. She has been the star of 175 books, which makes her more prolific than pretty much any other literary character I can think of. Nancy, if you are not familiar with this icon of teenage literature, is a detective who has been solving mysteries in pulp form since the 30s. If this is an indicator of the direction the series is heading, things don't look good for our favorite teenage detective.The plucky teenage detective Nancy Drew is back! Hired to investigate a series of strange notes and shady goings-on of academic sabotage and general intimidation of top students at the exclusive boarding school Waverly Academy, Nancy has to uncover the identity of the mysterious Black Cat before another girl gets hurt. Simply put, Nancy Drew: The Shattered Medallion is one of the worst-designed Nancy Drew games ever made.

These involve cross-referencing multiple pieces of evidence in ways that might never occur to younger players (and many older ones) and even the game's built-in hint system fails to lessen the chore-like aspect of the more arcane ones. For example, why would there be an arcade (and an auction house) plunked down in the middle of a reality show? Plus, the game's main puzzles often are problematic, and many are borderline unfathomable. In terms of gameplay, Her Interactive has been chucking in optional mini-games for some time now, but they're becoming a pointless distraction. With every new game, we hope developer Her Interactive will modernize its mundane graphics, and, with every new game, that hope is crushed. Along with the incomprehensible character dialogue, it also fails in terms of graphics.

#Cast of nancy drew warnings at waverly academy movie#

Beyond that, its characters and dialogue make it feel more like a David Lynch movie than something you'd see on network TV. From the closed-room feeling of the announcer's voice-over to the complete lack of visible competition, The Shattered Medallion feels nothing like the competition reality shows we're all so familiar with.

It starts by putting its heroine in a ludicrously uncharacteristic setting, then fails miserably to pull off the locale.

Despite the current popularity of such shows, the premise of putting Nancy Drew on one is inherently flawed, and the game repeatedly confirms this.

#Cast of nancy drew warnings at waverly academy tv#

Is this what it's come to? The Shattered Medallion wastes the skills of the whip-smart sleuth by putting her on a ridiculous reality TV show.