nancy drew shadow at the waters edge face

I'm still very confused about why they decided to change Nancy the way they did. This was barely a game because it was all talking and the gameplay was so linear. The conversations were so excessive we just kept skipping through them. I can't say much for the story because we didn't get very far. But from reading everyone else's reviews there were only a few in the whole game and everyone said they easy and nothing involved collecting any kind of clues. We may have struggled through all the talking and terrible controls and graphics if we knew there were some good puzzles throughout the game. We did not play this game for long so the only 'puzzles' we came across was the first desk puzzle and then door lock. Just because the screen zooms when you click to the next spot doesn't make it less of a point and click. It is still a point and click game (which we had no problem with it being in the old games). They kept saying the changes would be that it be more than a point and click game. You cannot play this with a laptop trackpad and we didn't want to continue playing so we didn't even try with a mouse. The hold and click to rotate was obnoxious. Some objects could not be clicked unless you turned the screen to a certain angle.

Dierdre being right in your face every time you turned around was beyond bizarre, annoying, and scared us every time. It was so hard to navigate, getting around places & people was difficult. The graphics and artworks were better in the older games. Even on the lowest setting the sky was constantly glitching. It had to be on the lowest setting to run smooth, medium setting was laggy, high graphics crashed it. There are so many games that come out in less time with immensely better graphics. This took FIVE YEARS it should have been amazing. There was none of the nostalgic music that give the Nancy vibe. Nancy's voice and all her silly sayings was an important part of what made the games special. The new Nancy voice is lame, another reviewer said it sounded so generic they could never tell who was talking because the voices all sounded the same - I couldn't have put it better myself. Our whole family was shocked that they even released it like this. We were not expecting it to be great, but we never could've imagined it being as bad as it was. Music is different, Nancy's voice is different, quality, graphics, controls, puzzles, everything is different. This does not feel like a Nancy game, it feels like something entirely different. There is zero nostalgic feel, because there's not a single aspect of the game the resembles the old ones. Nancy has always had a special place in our lives and something we looked forward to every 6 months. My sister and I started playing these games with our mom when we were kids.

Nancy drew shadow at the waters edge face