Stereotypes and prejudices are one of the most destructive forces in the world that you say. Who could lay serious expectations on the new Nancy Drew game? Only fans, or rather – fans, which, oddly enough, quite a lot.
Do not believe it. This time the fans were not far from the truth. Company Her Interactive She jumped above her head and took a grandiose step forward for herself-in the inexorable modernity. Okay, okay, we can do without loud words: just animation and facial expressions were finally adjusted to the standards of the year, this 2005. Great progress compared to graphics in the style of the late nineties, with which the developer studio could not part until 2009 inclusive.
– Report properly, James!
– Tornado, sir!
Well, lovers of a decent image can be happy. But fans of the classic detective will be disappointed: the plot seems very weak Trail of the Twister. Nancy’s previous adventures were usually at least a little older. Betective and more podomic. Here, the good three quarters of the game take place under the motto “A girl on the escapes of adults and responsible uncle-teti”.
Drew is an intern. She arrives in Oklahoma, where she has to help the team of Tornado hunters to win a competition with other same crazy people. That is, also hunters and also for a natural disaster. Gradually, in the process of fulfilling small and even slightly offensive orders, Miss Detector finds out that someone or something constantly disables important equipment necessary for the “capture” of tornado.
Intrigue? Well, like that. The grandiose problem of local. Of those very stories, after which the questions “well, what remain at the end?”,” Who are all these people?”,” In the name of which time was killed?”. And the conclusion: “It was better to go to the beach”.
In fact, only at the very end we will be allowed to swing a little and slightly promote. For most of the time, developers keep us on a hungry ration. Send some sprayers to repair, make a local grocery store, sort folders by name. Interesting, but where did the loud glory of the star of the private and not always authorized detective? Apparently, for the harsh heroes-tranadors of Nancy, the merits to the Fatherland do not look impressive enough. About how for us – successes Her Interactive in the field of creation of adventure.
Team spirit
Probably, the heroine of her newly made team should irritate the order. And only cruel censorship does not allow her to express her thoughts out loud, not otherwise. But we, ordinary players, a team of hunters for a tornado is more pleasing. First of all – with its diversity.
Allegedly passionate about his business, but the pessimistic and nonsense of Scott is the head of the project, a reasonable and calm Debbie – Nancy’s direct chef, cheerful sweet tooth, entrepreneurial Mr. Pa (aka dad) – all these guys seem quite alive. Each of them has its own characteristic features and values, they differ from each other by the manner of conversation, facial expressions and special gestures. No, however, something was shaken in Her Interactive, If, instead of ordinary cardboard-shaped characters, the developers decided to show almost real people.
It is curious that the whole series of Nanceidrushki is one of the few detective-game long-livers who do not demonstrate the main heroine itself in all its virtual beauty. We have already repeatedly wrote about the inexplicable love of most developers for the red detectives. Her Interactive does not lend itself to universal psychosis and continues to keep Nancy’s appearance a secret. Obviously, the company’s marketers believe that an attractive woman on the monitor would not have delivered joy to the overwhelming number of girls, of which the audience of the series is mainly. After all, then not all ladies could identify themselves with Miss Drew, as this happens now.
Alas, unexpected progress is compensated by a completely adequate loss. If earlier we were spoiled at least some, albeit poorly and stamped, but humor, now they were deprived of these crumbs. Dialogues are chewed as a chewing gum: the information useful for passage is hidden under the thickness of the verbal “water” – and not funny, not terrible, and not interesting at all. With this approach, it would be better for the heroes to be silent at all – there is.
Break it immediately
In the field of gameplay, it is not that innovation is waiting, but something unusual-for sure. Almost all the time they occupy different variations of puzzles and mini-games. That is, the usual “find an object is to apply an object” there is almost no place here. If in the previous parts of the series, especially the latter, this trend has already been outlined, now the “restoration” of the gameplay has turned into absurdity. Okay, when it comes to old castles, sea adventures or carnival traditions, bizarre ciphers and riddles only help maintain the atmosphere. But when a reasonable and practical aunt asks Nancy to arrange ordinary, prose folders in order and offers for this purpose to solve a logical problem in the spirit of “A is in front of D, while C.S. should immediately be”, this method of conducting business can cause only unhealthylaughter.
Fortunately, the authors this time abandoned the boring puzzles for transfusion, running and labyrinths. Now we are offered to mainly think about the solution, and not make a bunch of unnecessary body movements in order to achieve a long -understandable goal, as it was in Ransom of the Seven Ships, for example. For lovers to take their brain, they left a couple of infinitely repeated mini-games, with which you can earn a penny of dad. They say that if you accumulate 9900 of these same coins, you can buy an Easter egg – by the way, not the only one in Advenchur.
Partly corrected the misunderstanding with the car. No, c Her Interactive did not abandon the brilliant idea to put a woman behind the wheel. So Nancy still moves from place to place in real time-in a small schematic machine. As before, a clash with the nearest fence or with other cars does not bring either a girl or transport or the slightest grief. But now we have a GPS navigator who shows where we are at the moment and where we need to go. This is very easier for life. In the last episode, I had to look for the road with my mind. Read – wandering, mistaken and get lost.
We smile and wave
And now the player looks at all these contradictory and dubious virtues. And he sees: the animation is good, the miracle is how good. It sparkles just like a diamond against the background of a heap … Well, you know where diamonds usually find. Both the facial expressions of the characters are natural, and with voice acting all movements are synchronized. And the mechanic sweat from his forehead wipes like a real one, and dad’s sudden sadness on his face is very believably portrayed. I even want to take and forgive the developers with an anachonic graphics, take it for a tribute to the age of the series. And management is a museum, Point-And-Click-War-also forgive. What if it is true: they are stylized simply under the old days, under the history of the first adventure. They can make it beautiful when they want.
Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister -This is still progress. Let the plot are unsuccessful, the gameplay is overloaded with puzzles, and I would like to miss the dialogs as unnecessary. But the animation is beautiful, the characters of the heroes are competitive. And many details that were wildly annoyed in earlier episodes of the series are now smoothed out. True, only one who is already familiar with Nancy Drew will notice all these new advantages. For an unprepared person Trail of the Twister will be only another passing game worthy of speedy oblivion.
Pros: diverse characters;interesting puzzles;natural animation;Improved car drive.
Cons: small -scale plot;fresh dialogs;overloaded gameplay;illogical situations;Still inconvenient management.
Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister
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and I know why these farmers are kept by the lifers all the time! Cap says that their lifts have broken, and they stay on a manual drive so that the pants do not fly away, but I think they are holding on the lifts themselves, because they are afraid that someone else will hold on to them.
Very interesting review, thanks. Played and wrote the passage. I mainly agree with the author. For me the golden age of Nanceidnushki is already over and ended "Last train to the lunar gorge". To: [Strong] kampai [/barong] [Strong] [/Strong] And where is the mafia-2? To each his own. I don’t know what the mafia-1 is and I don’t want to know. Here a review of the trail of the tornado is discussed here, and not the game itself. If you want to speculate on the topic of how bad the game of the Nancy Drew series is, go to "We will discuss" in the subfhorum of quests and write how much it will fit. And then questomanians will be won by their logic [IMG] http: // stopforum.ru/images/smiles/biggrin.GIF [/IMG]. To: [strong] redplague [/strong] but not slag? The shooters are stupid? Well, shoot further.
I like it when new reviews come out every day. Although you know that you can’t buy the game, but read it is interesting.
To: [b] eaglehawker [/b] absolutely agrees with you, only I, if I liked the game, download from torrents)))
Good review. I pushed the idea that it was time to get a disk with a dusty shelf with the first myst and remember that the grass used to be much greener.
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[quote] aaaaaaa! Nensi Drew! Again! Dontsova will die from an overdose of Valocordin [/quote] And what do you think Dontsova does when he does not write ? 🙂
To: [Strong] Julia-10 [/Strong], in my opinion, RPG is better than quests and shooters, as it combines action, but at the same time makes it possible to think. (Not all games of course).[Strong] [/Strong]
I do not recognize these of your adventuras in principle. IMHO their time has passed. All these "Find 100500 items and then figure out where to put them" Outward in the last century. One indescribably, unimaginably beautiful winter Empire Bay of the Mafia already mentioned here costs a million times more than the whole series about Nancy Drew.
To: [b] strangerr [/b] well, let’s put that the winter empire bay is really cool (it was itself.. It seems to be fascinated by him, it seems that this is one of the best ideas of the authors, since then such a feeling "close miracle" no longer arose until the end of the game, and the ending at all killed). But there are games in which a sense of miracle does not leave you for a second at all. And, for some reason, this is most often connected with Andweschi than the rest of the games. Take the same Myst series that consisted of miracles. And for a long time after passing the games he persuaded himself that miracles were miracles, but in reality this could not happen. And, it seems, I haven’t persuaded it to the end. And although the century of great quests \ Advencur really ended, but no one bothers to start it again. Here are just good initiators yet have not appeared. But we are waiting, do not lose heart, we turn over the classics.
To: [Strong] zekius [/Strong] And for someone a solitaire "Ring" much more interesting than GTA. What is the genre quest? We discuss a specific game, not a crisis of the genre or who likes what. I played this game and I didn’t like it. Recently, the developers from Nancy-Squader of treasures began to make Nancy-Podai or Nancy-Poshyni something. Oddly enough, adolescents like it, and the ghost of Venice and notes of the black cat, stuffed with simulators, they love more than the treasure of seven ships with its puzzles. And this game is a service center for repairing household appliances: fix the TV, fans for probes, antennas, etc.D. I got bored at the very beginning. No mystery. I did not care who the main villain was the main thing to get to the end. To collect a mousetrap four times – this is really "Cool". I haven’t yawned for so long. Boring.
I, it turns out, is a ducked fan, ok. But in general, Julia is correctly tasting, the age of Nancy has passed. 🙁 although, I did not agree a little, the wolf and the carnival were not very bad. Treasure, it was fun there. And so. Eh. And in general, my beloved is a dress for the first lady, the fogs of the island of lies, the secret of the scarlet hand (wow, I was tormented there with Maia calendars, I remember!), maybe still Blackmur. The skull was very good. To go to the origins. [quote] mafia 2 [/quote] fu, I hate all these GTA-like-like played with GTA herself. All these 10,500 corpses and come up with what to buy athletes, more romantics in the quests are more.