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Nancy Drew and the Creature of Kapu Cave
Home : Games : Reviews : PC / Windows : Nancy Drew and the Creature of Kapu Cave
When reviewing games intended for a young audience there are certain things that one has to take with a grain of salt. The puzzles will necessarily be easier than one would expect in a more “grown up” title, for example. The gameplay will need to be more linear. The story will need to be fairly straight forward and lack much of any real drama or any overt sense of danger to the main characters. These things I take as a given and then try to place myself in the shoes of a much younger individual.
For this Nancy Drew game, it didn’t work. I loaded it up, played through it in about two hours and said to myself “wow, what a waste of drive space.”
Since I knew that this would not make a suitable review for a child’s game, I decided that I needed to grab from the demographic pool of the game’s intended audience. I don’t keep a supply of prepubescent girls around my house (the courts tend to frown on that sort of thing), so I got the closest thing I could – my own thirteen year-old son – and had him play the game.
After three hours he finished the game and said, “wow, that really sucked.”
The graphics and visuals in Creature are actually pretty good. The gameplay itself is fine, if not overly simple (click the book to read its contents, click the file to see what it says, etc) and does include a somewhat amusing driving feature (apparently a first for the series). It also allows the player to play as multiple characters (another first) whether Nancy herself or Frank and Joe Hardy (yes, the famous Hardy Boys, Nancy’s masculine counterparts, appear in the game – another first in the series). In fact, various parts of the game require that the player be one of the other characters, so the character changing is a requirement and not a choice on the player’s part.
Home : Games : Reviews : PC / Windows : Nancy Drew and the Creature of Kapu Cave
Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys go to Hawaii. I smell an MTV Spring Break episode in the making!
Nancy Drew and the Creature of Kapu Cave apparently marks the 15th game starring the famous teen gumshoe. I had no idea. Of course, since this and all the previous Nancy Drew titles were apparently targeted at an audience of ten to thirteen year-old girls, it’s probably no surprise that I was blissfully ignorant of their existence. 
The Hardy Boys. Total dweebs. Who knew?
When reviewing games intended for a young audience there are certain things that one has to take with a grain of salt. The puzzles will necessarily be easier than one would expect in a more “grown up” title, for example. The gameplay will need to be more linear. The story will need to be fairly straight forward and lack much of any real drama or any overt sense of danger to the main characters. These things I take as a given and then try to place myself in the shoes of a much younger individual.
For this Nancy Drew game, it didn’t work. I loaded it up, played through it in about two hours and said to myself “wow, what a waste of drive space.”
Since I knew that this would not make a suitable review for a child’s game, I decided that I needed to grab from the demographic pool of the game’s intended audience. I don’t keep a supply of prepubescent girls around my house (the courts tend to frown on that sort of thing), so I got the closest thing I could – my own thirteen year-old son – and had him play the game.
“Luuuucyyyyy… you got some ‘splainin’ to doooo…”
After three hours he finished the game and said, “wow, that really sucked.”
The graphics and visuals in Creature are actually pretty good. The gameplay itself is fine, if not overly simple (click the book to read its contents, click the file to see what it says, etc) and does include a somewhat amusing driving feature (apparently a first for the series). It also allows the player to play as multiple characters (another first) whether Nancy herself or Frank and Joe Hardy (yes, the famous Hardy Boys, Nancy’s masculine counterparts, appear in the game – another first in the series). In fact, various parts of the game require that the player be one of the other characters, so the character changing is a requirement and not a choice on the player’s part.
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