Posted By: Doffy90
RAN review, short one. - 07/21/09 09:30 PM
Nancy Drew – Creature of ooops I mean Ransom of the Seven Ships is the latest installment of the 3D detective series. Like always it brings hopes of a great and mysterious adventure which is just waiting to be solved by eager minds. Unfortunately I think that RAN was a disaster.
First of all let’s talk bout the graphics. I’m what you would call a hardcore gamer and I love beautiful graphics. When it comes to adventure games I don’t expect spectacular graphics like those new games for the PS3 or Xbox360. Nancy Drew like always have decent graphics, but omg what is up with the people? I really would like the developers to spend more time and use higher graphics on the people because they look awful. Like someone else said George looked like she could be Nancy’s mom!
As this is a treasure hunt it’s appropriate to set the setting to an island, but wait haven’t that been done before? Yes! Creature of Kapu Cave! We’ve already seen this and it’s so uncreative to do this again. Hopefully the next game which will take place in a school will be better since that’s not been done before (except for one of the earliest games, but they don’t count!). On top having the same setting, navigating through the Island is an absolute mess. I cannot stress the fact that I drove around like 12 times before I eventually found the place I was supposed to go to. The Bat Steep I didn’t even find until I accidentally drove of road. I mean come on, how are people supposed to know that we’re supposed to drive of the road?
And the 3rd person games, absolutely dreadful. There were too many of them and there was no escaping them either, you had play through them all. The mini games were okay but the difficulty didn’t match the junior vs senior level at all. The junior puzzles were impossible. I tried and I tried, but eventually I gave up and emend up using a walkthrough through the whole game. Meh.
Anyway I won’t write a long detailed review but I give this game a 2 of 6. It’s the worst of the new Nancy Drew games in my opinion but still one can find little joy if you have a lot of patience.
First of all let’s talk bout the graphics. I’m what you would call a hardcore gamer and I love beautiful graphics. When it comes to adventure games I don’t expect spectacular graphics like those new games for the PS3 or Xbox360. Nancy Drew like always have decent graphics, but omg what is up with the people? I really would like the developers to spend more time and use higher graphics on the people because they look awful. Like someone else said George looked like she could be Nancy’s mom!
As this is a treasure hunt it’s appropriate to set the setting to an island, but wait haven’t that been done before? Yes! Creature of Kapu Cave! We’ve already seen this and it’s so uncreative to do this again. Hopefully the next game which will take place in a school will be better since that’s not been done before (except for one of the earliest games, but they don’t count!). On top having the same setting, navigating through the Island is an absolute mess. I cannot stress the fact that I drove around like 12 times before I eventually found the place I was supposed to go to. The Bat Steep I didn’t even find until I accidentally drove of road. I mean come on, how are people supposed to know that we’re supposed to drive of the road?
And the 3rd person games, absolutely dreadful. There were too many of them and there was no escaping them either, you had play through them all. The mini games were okay but the difficulty didn’t match the junior vs senior level at all. The junior puzzles were impossible. I tried and I tried, but eventually I gave up and emend up using a walkthrough through the whole game. Meh.
Anyway I won’t write a long detailed review but I give this game a 2 of 6. It’s the worst of the new Nancy Drew games in my opinion but still one can find little joy if you have a lot of patience.
