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Nancy Drew®: Curse of Blackmoor Manor is a first-person perspective, point-and-click adventure game. The player is Nancy Drew and has to solve a mystery. Explore rich environments for clues, interrogate suspects, and solve puzzles and mini-games.
All is not well in Blackmoor Manor, a Fourteenth Century English mansion haunted by a tragic past. You, as Nancy Drew, embark on your first international adventure to visit Linda Penvellyn, your neighbor's daughter and newlywed wife of a British diplomat. A mysterious malady keeps Linda hidden behind thick bed curtains. Is she hiding from something or someone, or is a more menacing threat stalking her? Face your fears to find the truth! Dare to Play.™
Travel to England and solve challenging puzzles to break the manor’s evil curse.
Snoop and sleuth through gorgeously detailed rooms for clues.
Meet intriguing suspects, including a sardonic talking parrot.
Erase mistakes by using the ‘Second Chance’ feature.
Play at your own pace with Junior and Senior detective levels.
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Languages: English*, French**languages with full audio support
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This game fills much of its run-time with what feels like time-wasters. To complete the came you will need to play a match-3 game twice, a 20 piece jigsaw puzzle, at least 2 games of "Go Fish", and at least 1 game of what is essentially just rolling dice. More so than previous entries, "Curse of Blackmoor Manor" relies on mazes, timers, and orienteering, something it struggles to communicate with its non-continuous first-person perspective. There is a lot of stumbling around in the dark, trying to remember if exiting a screen turns you around or not. Many of the puzzles also rely on dialogue triggers to be activated. Even if you intuit the solution, Nancy will not allow you to solve the puzzle until you speak to someone else. The connection between the characters and the puzzles you solve feel arbitrary, more manufactured by the necessity of event flags than the logic of the story itself. Particularly in the late-game, there are a number of puzzles that do avoid the two flaws above, but which occasionally have some strained logic to them. A minor example from an early puzzle, if you know anything about carnivorous plants that puzzle will be entirely opaque to you. This is also the buggiest Nancy Drew game I've played. I encountered 2 game-breaking bugs where a critical item was deleted from the inventory, necessitating a restart. To end on a positive note, story-wise this game was solid. Each of the characters has probable motive and contributes to the air of paranoia pervasive in this game's atmosphere. The reveal at the end was so much fun! Also, the game-overs are perhaps the funniest in the series. Nancy, what did you think would happen if you crawled into that pitcher plant? In summation, this is a below-average ND game that falls into some of the series' worst habits, only bolstered by a story that its gameplay only serves to interrupt.
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Многими фанатами Нэнси Дрю она признана если не самой, то одной из лучших частей серии. Признаюсь честно, когда играл первый раз постоянно пользовался гайдом. Загадки казались нелогичными, чересчур сложными и даже бредовыми, самостоятельно в общем не осилил. По факту, правдиво только про сложность. Головоломки в этой игре сложные и по первой непонятные, но как только догадываешься, возникает чувство "Бляяя, да тут оказывается всё ♥♥♥♥♥♥ логично". Прошёл на Старшем детективе и без гайда. Можно считать это победой. Только тот, кто прошёл Блэкмур без гайда - может считаться мастер детектив игр Нэнси Дрю и заслужить почётное звание "Старший детектив"
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Okeyish story and quite thrilling atmosphere, but had to look up stuff in the walkthrough, although I have already knew the correct answer. There were some unobvious/illogical details as the specific order of certain actions because otherswise a cutscene won't make sense, or mouse right-click suddenly becomes a thing in one of the puzzles, timer that is not actually a timer but a strange tracker of your actions. Game throws a whole bunch of names at you (history of the family), and when you need one of them to solve the puzzle couple of real days after, you cannot find it anywhere in the game (not a mention in the journal).
Top 5 for sure. I love the creepy settings, the amazing puzzles, the hidden passageways, how we get to sneak around. Wish more of their games had this.
Blackmoor is a true classic, right up there with The Haunting of Castle Malloy. An amazing game with amazing music and atmosphere. Her Interactive, please erase my memory so I never remember that ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Mystery of the Seven Keys, because I'm still hoping for a great Nancy Drew game
Just finished, but I think I was following the walkthrough guideline more than 60% of the game... I liked the setting but it was quite difficult for me. Some of the puzzles were a little bit too repetitive and annoying than being interesting. As someone who's not native English speaker, I completely gave up reading all the handwritten fonts in the letters/books. I wish they kept the voice over system from the Secret of the Shadow Ranch.
More challenging than some of the other ones that I've played. The limited space is maddening, but the clues are intricate and there's a lot of information; I took several pages of notes for this playthrough. Also had a scary element as the secret passageways were very dark and the imagery was pretty creepy. Definitely had fun with Blackmoor Manor.
I enjoyed the atmosphere of the manor and most of the puzzles. However, compared to many of the other Nancy Drew games, the controls were fairly clunky and navigating through any dialogue was slow and difficult. You shouldn't necessarily skip this one, but expect to be a little more patient with the controls.
This served as my gateway game to Nancy Drew. It was recommended to me by my Girlfriend and we played it together and had such a good time. I'm excited to go on with the rest of the Nancy Drew games. They don't make game like this anymore. So much character to a game. Highly recommend to those who are looking into playing new puzzle/detective games.
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