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Point-n-Click, Mystery |
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First Person "While I don’t pay as much attention to the fine details of animation and graphics as some other reviewers, I still pay plenty of attention to characterization. And boy, do we have some good characters in this story! First, there is Minette, of course. She is so eccentric, what with using special tea and resorting to unusual ways of relieving stress...And you’ll never guess why she wears that mask! "Heather McKay, Minette’s senior assistant, is a fine long-suffering assistant, but she has her breaking points, as you’ll see when you actually play the game. Then there’s Dieter von Schwesterkrank, a photographer. As someone who dated Minette (until she broke up with him), he turns out to be someone who’s connected to both the mystery involving Minette and the back-story involving Noisette. "Nancy stays with Jing Jing Ling, an Australian model who is Minette’s finishing model (someone who has to try on the garments a designer works on to make certain they fit.) Jing Jing is a fun woman, but she tends to lie for fun a lot, apparently she was tricked into becoming a fitting model, and she has engineering books in her cupboard...Finally, there’s Jean Michel Traquenard, a fashion critic who writes nasty reviews for a fashion magazine called Glam Glam. He sees Minette as an unthinking, socially inept egotist. "The plot is very interesting, more so than those of the previous two games, Secret of the Old Clock and Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon. This is largely because the back-story is more interesting this time around...The fashion aspect of the plot wasn’t quite as interesting for me, but was still enjoyable...The puzzles were fairly easy for the most part, requiring minimal hair-pulling. The main exception was trying to develop the films for Dieter in the darkness! You must click in the right areas to put the film in the chemical baths or else the whole thing would blow up and then you are forced to start all over again! "There were also a few suspenseful moments. One involved diving underwater and navigating my way to a secret location before running out of air!...Also, when Nancy confronts the villain, it becomes necessary to block martial arts punches. "Generally, I liked this game better than the last two Nancy Drew games...I highly recommend it to anyone who likes Nancy Drew, and many who like adventure games."
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