Nancy Drew - Midnight in Salem for PC and Mac

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• By Mblake3

  1

  Many many flaws

  I’ve been playing Nancy Drew Mysteries for years and have never had a problem with Her Interactive before. I have all of the available Windows downloadable games and have never had issues until downloading this game. Midnight in Salem does not have the same type of gameplay as the other games. After playing this game for 15 minutes I believe this choice made by the developers was a huge mistake. The graphics are extremely choppy. It’s super difficult to move around and get Nancy to select objects. It says to right click to look around the frame. Whenever I right click the frame shoots to the left. There is a ton of lag and the game freezes constantly. I’ve had to give up on the game completely because one of the puzzles you have to complete to move on to the next scene just opens up to a black screen when you try to solve it. You can click on the puzzle and hear pieces moving but you can’t see what you’re doing so it’s impossible to complete. This game is a huge dissapointment to us Nancy Drew fans who waited forever for it to come out. What’s truly dissapointing is this game has a great concept and could have been amazing had they chosen to stick to the original format. I’ve filed an issue with Her Interactive on their website. If they can fix these issues, I will update my review. Until then, do not waste your money like I did. I recommend you download any of the other games. Ghost of Thornton hall is especially great.

  
  
• By emcdonaugh17

  2

  should have stuck to the old technology

  I appreciate the fact that Her Interactive wanted to improve things and make the game more realistic (or whatever their aim was), but the 3D feeling was just unnecessary to me and I honestly hate it. It took me forever to even learn how to navigate and to realize the fact that you can interact directly with the objects you pick up (SPOILER BUT HELPFUL- the key you find in the first scene is in fact the key, you just have to like twist it right). I am not finished with the game yet, as I have little motivation to play and am regretting spending $22 on it. It’s disappointing because I LOVE Nancy Drew games so much AND I just taught a mini lesson (I’m a college student) on Salem so I was stoked for this game but the graphics and technological features really fell flat to me. If this game used the old features, I’m sure I’d love it. Overall just really disappointed and honestly sad :(

  
  
• By Pleyto427BC

  1

  Dissapointed

  I do not normally leave reviews let alone add a comment; Howerver, Nancy Drew games have been a part of my life for nearly two decades now and have always held a large plot of land in my heart. Upon purchasing a PC I was excited to learn that a number of these familiar titles were accessable even on laptop. After a good period of time and money and joy finishing these games repeatedly I updated my IOS to find that none of them worked on this computer any longer. I saw this game pop up and knew i had to play it despite the horrid review section. I soon realized that every poor review was saddly justified as the game proved to be a barely-playable atrocity, its few strong points greatly paling in comparison to its predecessor. The old games were beautiful adventures full of charm and intrigue. This game is so deeply disapointing and I hope that the backlash of the equally perturbed Her gaming community is a strong enough message to the developers that the change, as ambitious and well-intended as it appeared, was very poorly executed and unecessary stylistically and functionally.

  
  
• By meh meh baybay

  5

  Great game!

  I’ve been seeing a lot of people hating on this game, but I loved it! I’m not too keen on the new naviagation and it did take me a while to get the hang of it. However, once I did, this game was so much fun! It had fun mini-games, the details are beautiful and the plot was fantastic! I thought I had the culpret all figured out, but there were curve balls up until the end! It’s not just a clean cut, this person is the bad guy kind of case and I love that so much! Super fun to play and DELICIOUSLY dramatic! The drama with Ned, the Parry family drama, the Hardy brothers; it’s too much excitement! I LOVE the new look for the Hardy boys and I relly enjoyed doing another case with them! This is seriously one of my new fave Nancy Drew games! TLDR: Don’t give up over the new navigation, stay for the DRAMA! You wont regret it!!!

  
  
• By MediaQu33n

  5

  I Was Overly Harsh In My First Assessment....

  Most notably the controls are different, and at first they felt impossible (especiallly the way you interact with your invintory) but after playing a bit there are things about the "new" Nancy Drew games that i really like--being able to skip through conversations. The smart phone. Playing as different people. I will say I did find some of the puzzles on this game quite challenging, never a bad thing. The graphics were a little too much for my old Windows, but i got through. Overall, i think i won't mind going back to the older games, but there will be things that i'll miss about the newer era games.