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by Randy Sluganski |
Nancy Drew: A Retrospective |
Nancy Drew: The
Haunted Carousel
One of my
favorites, as I’m
a sucker for any game set in an amusement park. This time Nancy
travels to the Jersey shore and a seaside amusement park
where an antique carousel horse has disappeared and the merry-go-round has
mysteriously begun operating on its own. The Haunted Carousel is probably the tightest and most solid game in the series to date.
Once again Ray Ivey begged
to review the newest Nancy Drew game and he came away with this
conclusion, ‘The tightness of the game’s construction,
plot and location mean that the game is pretty short. This is not
a complaint. Nancy Drew books aren’t long, and it wouldn’t
make sense for the games to be epics, either. Modesty becomes Nancy
Drew. Indeed, the compactness of the game even adds a welcome sense
of urgency and immediacy. You really feel like you’re Nancy,
rolling up your sleeves and getting to the bottom of things without
any nonsense.’
