Wow, I can not believe that it's 2020 last year just flew by.
We've been seriously slacking in reading lately. So I am in hopes we have more time for reading. We have met so many fantastic people last year. I hope that it continues. January is almost finished with and well I am sad to say that I have yet been able to sit and read. It looks like I am going to have to double up on reading in February.
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Nancy Drew "Midnight in Salem" Game
Midnight in Salem by "herinteractive" Nancy Drew https://www.herinteractive.com/, is the worst game that herinteractive has come out with. Let us hope that the real game will surface.
This game did not live up to the Nancy Drew Game Genre.
Herinteractive stated that Unity would be something great and that the wait is well worth it. If you have already paid I am sorry you have been fooled too.
I was excited about this game. My husband was excited about this game. Being from Massachusetts and partly being raised in SALEM itself. I couldn't wait for this game to come out. Salem has such an amazing history. But yet not much was said about this history. I feel really gipped on this game. I finished it in about an hour on Master while doing other things at the same time. Bob finished the Easy part in about 30 minutes. With no help from me! Neither of us used help/hints or even the guide.
So disappointing. Not only did you have to wait over a year for this game to come out. The HYPE that herinteractive gave up to the game actually coming out. Stating that the graphics are amazing blah blah blah. The reasoning they gave for the game not coming out on the original due date.
The Graphics are THE WORST TO DATE. The game lags and a newborn baby can move faster than Nancy and crew. herinteractive please go back to the old format. Oh never mind the problems with just trying to download it.
With the promise of new and better graphics, I held out hope that you would be able to search around rooms more. Interact with just about anything in a room. Hardly any puzzles or mini-games. Oh, let us carve a pumpkin, and place them around. Oh but to bad, you can only make one pumpkin at a time and you will have to travel with it and go back and forth with this mindless mini-game or Easter egg if you want to call it that. But with the huge LAG, We did not even try to place all pumpkins.
The game ends way too quickly. Even at the end of the game with loud music, you could hardly hear what people said over the music.
So my review:
Graphics 1/10
The graphics were okay. Brought back memories I had as a child. In high resolution with a considerable lag of mouse action and gameplay.
Dialog 2/10
The dialog was funny at times but offered little to no player choice. Basically, I felt like a hostage in a conversation that lasted way to long. So much more history could have been used but yet was not. I will give it some credit for some puns placed here and there but even then there were inconsistencies with things said in the game and facts being reported incorrectly later on. Along with NO BOSTONIAN Accents????? Ummm! Hello! You are supposed to be speaking with people who have lived in Boston/Salem their entire lives. They will have the accent that let us just face it almost everyone loves. Since moving south at least 13 years ago I STILL HAVE MY BOSTONIAN ACCENT on most words.
Puzzles 0/10 (or -100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)
I think that might be enough (0's) at the end.
We play these Nancy Drew games because we love puzzles. We love solving things and working out the mystery. I was very excited to play this game and was anticipating new or puzzling challenges but was sorely disappointed. This game has 4, let me repeat myself, FOUR puzzles. Each with a solve time of approximately two minutes or maybe 10 for one puzzle that just painstakingly makes you translate a code by mouse over and over again.
Mystery Concept 7/10
As a native of Salem, I was thrilled when this game was announced. Finally something in our own backyard and truly historical. Something that would bring back childhood memories, I loved the concept of a modern-day sort of witch hunt and this game truly tried to tackle that idea. I was a bit disappointed with the lack of historical knowledge of the lack of interaction that could have been given. Please! It could have been presented but sadly it was mostly given in the form of books that people almost never read in games. Such a disappointment.
With all of this said.
I might play another Nancy Drew game. I have hope that Herinteractive is actually reading all of these disappointing complaints/reviews.
This game did not live up to the Nancy Drew Game Genre.
Herinteractive stated that Unity would be something great and that the wait is well worth it. If you have already paid I am sorry you have been fooled too.
I was excited about this game. My husband was excited about this game. Being from Massachusetts and partly being raised in SALEM itself. I couldn't wait for this game to come out. Salem has such an amazing history. But yet not much was said about this history. I feel really gipped on this game. I finished it in about an hour on Master while doing other things at the same time. Bob finished the Easy part in about 30 minutes. With no help from me! Neither of us used help/hints or even the guide.
So disappointing. Not only did you have to wait over a year for this game to come out. The HYPE that herinteractive gave up to the game actually coming out. Stating that the graphics are amazing blah blah blah. The reasoning they gave for the game not coming out on the original due date.
The Graphics are THE WORST TO DATE. The game lags and a newborn baby can move faster than Nancy and crew. herinteractive please go back to the old format. Oh never mind the problems with just trying to download it.
With the promise of new and better graphics, I held out hope that you would be able to search around rooms more. Interact with just about anything in a room. Hardly any puzzles or mini-games. Oh, let us carve a pumpkin, and place them around. Oh but to bad, you can only make one pumpkin at a time and you will have to travel with it and go back and forth with this mindless mini-game or Easter egg if you want to call it that. But with the huge LAG, We did not even try to place all pumpkins.
The game ends way too quickly. Even at the end of the game with loud music, you could hardly hear what people said over the music.
So my review:
Graphics 1/10
The graphics were okay. Brought back memories I had as a child. In high resolution with a considerable lag of mouse action and gameplay.
Dialog 2/10
The dialog was funny at times but offered little to no player choice. Basically, I felt like a hostage in a conversation that lasted way to long. So much more history could have been used but yet was not. I will give it some credit for some puns placed here and there but even then there were inconsistencies with things said in the game and facts being reported incorrectly later on. Along with NO BOSTONIAN Accents????? Ummm! Hello! You are supposed to be speaking with people who have lived in Boston/Salem their entire lives. They will have the accent that let us just face it almost everyone loves. Since moving south at least 13 years ago I STILL HAVE MY BOSTONIAN ACCENT on most words.
Puzzles 0/10 (or -100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)
I think that might be enough (0's) at the end.
We play these Nancy Drew games because we love puzzles. We love solving things and working out the mystery. I was very excited to play this game and was anticipating new or puzzling challenges but was sorely disappointed. This game has 4, let me repeat myself, FOUR puzzles. Each with a solve time of approximately two minutes or maybe 10 for one puzzle that just painstakingly makes you translate a code by mouse over and over again.
Mystery Concept 7/10
As a native of Salem, I was thrilled when this game was announced. Finally something in our own backyard and truly historical. Something that would bring back childhood memories, I loved the concept of a modern-day sort of witch hunt and this game truly tried to tackle that idea. I was a bit disappointed with the lack of historical knowledge of the lack of interaction that could have been given. Please! It could have been presented but sadly it was mostly given in the form of books that people almost never read in games. Such a disappointment.
With all of this said.
I might play another Nancy Drew game. I have hope that Herinteractive is actually reading all of these disappointing complaints/reviews.
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