Nancy Drew: The Final Scene & Treasure In The Royal Tower

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $17.95

Features:

• In Nancy Drew - The Final Scene, Nancy's friend has been kidnapped and hidden in an old theater. You have three days to rescue before the building is demolished
• Use your wits and stealth to sneak around as Nancy & find clues to this mystery
• Meet with over 20 different characters & figure out which of them has a secret
• In Nancy Drew - Treasure In The Royal Tower, you unravel the riddles in an old ski resort, to learn the secret it hides
• The castle itself seems to be riddle or maze -- explore strange detours, mysterious artwork, and dead-end corridors

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine	Zonealarm Internet Security Suite [Old Version]

Customer Reviews:

hard to navigate [Posted on 2005-07-05]
I was excited at first to receive the CD but became dissatisfied when I saw how hard it was to navigate through the game.

Good Job-but not as good as the next ND [Posted on 2005-07-14]
Okay, here are my pros and cons about each game.
Treasure in the Royal Tower
Pros- Mysterious and sometimes frightening
Good, well developed characters
Unknown areas later revealed as game progresses
Cons- Difficult Puzzles with hard-to-find answers
Ending kind of weird and surprising
Can't go outside unless absoulutely needed

The Final Scene
Pros- Really good plot with good characters
An awesome and frightnening ending
Days setting makes gameplay quick and fun
Cons- Bugs make it "freeze up" or not respond
(for example, at a good part I could never get out a door, even after restarting the game)
Days setting makes it a little too short
Some puzzles hard, some ridicously easy
All in all, I think both games are fun and well-devolped, with little quirks, but they don't take away much from the game.

Both are great games!  [Posted on 2006-01-01]
Treasure in a Royal Tower is neat and exciting. You are Nancy Drew and you are on a ski vacation which has been postponed because of a huge blizzard! Therefore you are trapped inside a castle with a couple of other characters. Each of them has jobs for you to do and secrets of their own to hide. Nancy finds out about a plan that Marie Antoinette had in the castle several hundred years ago and is able to figure out some of it by uncovering clues and strange events around the castle.

The Final Scene is really cool -- maybe one of my favorites. It is set in a theater in St. Louis, and right after you get there, your best friend, Maya, is kidnapped as soon as she enters a dressing room! The theater is going to be destroyed in three days, so you only have three days to find your friend! Use secret passageways, trap doors, and secret hallways to help you find Maya. There are a couple of characters .... and as always, the bad guy (or girl!) in the end will turn out to be the person you least suspect! You'll need to look around in the theater itself, the projector room, the front hall, and all of the rooms backstage.

Both of these games have a "Second Chance" feature which gives you as many tries as you need to solve the case if you make a huge mistake. There are two levels, Junior Detective and Senior Detective, for beginners and advanced detectives respectively. These two games are two of the so far 13 Nancy Drew computer games. The graphics are good and there are unexpected turns. These will keep you busy for a while! Happy gaming!

"Royal Tower" and "Final Scene" are Suspenseful Mystery Gaming at its Best! [Posted on 2006-08-24]
Having played 9 of the 15 Nancy Drew games, "Royal Tower" and "Final Scene" rank among the best I've played in the series.

"Royal Tower" is magnificently executed. You are on vacation at a beautiful castle and ski resort in the mountains, and become snowed in because of severe weather. During this time, you must investigate mysterious occurrances that have been happening around the castle. From here, the plot and suspense develops and builds at an exciting pace.

The puzzles are a delight to solve, and the characters are interesting and colorful. Just what is it that they are hiding from you? You must find out, and you will have the time of your life doing so.

Along the way, you will get to learn fascinating details about French Revolutionary history and Marie Antoinette while exploring an exquisite and richly detailed castle, complete with secret rooms, compartments and hidden passageways. At one point, you even get to explore outside the castle when weather permits. Awesome! You are in for a real treat with this one.

"Final Scene" is one of the more exciting and suspenseful games, as you are working against the clock in order to find your close friend who has been kidnapped at the site of a condemned theater set to be demolished in just a few days.

The game begins at a fast and frenetic pace. Moments after arriving at the beautiful Palladium Theater with Maya Nguyen to interview a theater actor, she is suddenly abducted right before your very eyes inside of the actor's dressing room! You immediately receive a call from the kidnapper in the theater demanding that the planned demolition be stopped in order to rescue Maya.

As in "Royal Tower," the theater is exquisitely reproduced in intricate detail. You must investigate its rich and colorful history, solving riddles and puzzles along the way, in order to discover where it is that Maya is being hidden away. Each character seems suspicious in their own way, and each one seems to be hiding information from you. It is up to you to uncover what it is that they are not revealing.

The ending of the game is probably the most exciting and suspenseful yet that I have played in the ND series. It is really an edge-of-your-seat experience. You will just love it!

I wholeheartedly recommend these games to any mystery fan. You will not be disappointed.

Neither game will run for me. [Posted on 2008-02-01]
I'm 42 and bought this because of all the rave reviews, but both games freeze/lock up my computer EVERY time I interact with the stories. In fact, The Final Scene locks up in the very first room, when the phone rings the second time. Dreamcatcher, the manufacturer, has been no help at all and seems to be ignoring me.

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