Nancy Drew®: The Shattered Medallion Reviews

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Ah, I just replayed this game with friends and it was so much fun!! My friends and I have a semi-bi-monthly game night where we play video games together. For my birthday meeting, I got priority pick, as we had just finished our latest venture (the entire Phoenix Wright trilogy). And when I realized I had never introduced them to my childhood obsession—the Nancy Drew games!!—I knew I had to rectify that. Now, I own all the games, so I had to make a choice here, and while I remember a lot of games fondly, if not all of them, one of my immediate contenders was The Shattered Medallion, and ultimately it was the one I went for. Why? Well, there are several reasons, but mostly… [b]the characters are so damn insane in this one[/b]. They are utterly hilarious. Patrick? [i]love of my life[/i]. Bess and George? Utter gems. The mythological Sonny Joon? Lives up to his hype. They’re all so kooky and funny that I knew that, at the very least, my friends would enjoy that aspect of it. The setting is also one of the more unique and fun the ND games have ever gone for – a reality TV show, with Nancy and her friends as contestants. And of course, the aliens. The setting also gives more credibility to the many puzzles in the game (after all, sometimes you do wonder why this ship, school building, house, ranch, etc, etc, have so many secret nooks and crannies with hidden compartments and puzzles to open them. My house sure doesn’t come with any of those!). Speaking of the puzzles – I really like them. Their level of difficulty varied, but they all felt solvable to me, in a way some Nancy puzzles do not. I’m not going to lie, I am the type of gamer who, if stuck too long on a puzzle, will go to look for spoilers. I didn’t really need to do that with this one – we had all the information, and each one of us got to solve at least one puzzle on their own, so bonus points for feeling good about ourselves, lol. While I feel like the mystery element takes secondary importance in this one, I genuinely had so much fun with the game that I am likely to replay it again sooner rather than later!