#852946 - 11/30/12 12:41 PM
Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device -- A Review by Rushes
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Nancy is taken on at the “Technology of Tomorrow Today” research facility to investigate the death of physicist Niko Jovic. Will she make it out in one piece? Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device Review
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#852950 - 11/30/12 12:52 PM
Re: Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device -- A Review by Rushes
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Wonderful review Rushes! Thanks for the great read. Ana 
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#852965 - 11/30/12 02:14 PM
Re: Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device -- A Review by Rushes
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Thank you Rushes! 
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#853132 - 12/01/12 11:31 AM
Re: Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device -- A Review by Rushes
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Thanks, everyone. :)
I'm glad I'm not the only one, Marian!
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#853192 - 12/01/12 02:55 PM
Re: Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device -- A Review by Rushes
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Same here. Mazes are my least favorite puzzles. Give me a fiendish slider any day or night or day or night and so on again and again for at least 60 clock sets over a maze leading out of a room I can't find again. I even knew about the right hand method but thought that applied only for real world mazes.
The first problem I used the WT for was to discover that what I had mistakenly branded a typical Nancy Drew ploy to get me thrown out of the facility was, in fact, essential to moving the game along. That device was clever in its simplicity. I looked at the object in question at least five times and thought, "You're not going to sucker me, Nancy Drew. I just need to remember that hotspot for the end of the game when some villain is chasing me." Wrong.
While the dialogue isn't as amusing as in Captive Curse (for example, "No castles? Then how do you protect yourselves from peasant uprisings?"), my impression of Deadly Device is that it's a bit better than a solid B and a cut above the usual HER Interactive fare. I haven't finished it yet though so I can't be certain.
I absolutely am not cheating on the code in the notebook. Never. Well, hardly ever. At least not yet.
Edited by 8dognight (12/01/12 02:57 PM)
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#853343 - 12/02/12 11:37 AM
Re: Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device -- A Review by Rushes
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Nice review! I'm looking forward to Ned, who is in full-on “dopey” mode a role usually played by Bess.
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#853344 - 12/02/12 11:44 AM
Re: Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device -- A Review by Rushes
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He really doesn't warrant looking forward to, Becky.  Thanks!
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#853500 - 12/03/12 10:38 AM
Re: Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device -- A Review by Rushes
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The 2 Zap-up puzzles were both trial and error for me. The logic was elusive. My carpal tunnel cried. :lol: The last puzzle; I took a screen capture and worked that at my leisure. Cut and paste the components using my graphics program. Hahahahah. Is that cheating?  I had help from Her Interactive.
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#853507 - 12/03/12 11:08 AM
Re: Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device -- A Review by Rushes
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#857173 - 12/18/12 05:38 AM
Re: Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device -- A Review by Rushes
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Thanks Rushes. I have the game but haven't started playing yet. Sounds like I'll like the master level.
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