Nancy Drew®: The Final Scene Reviews

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The Final Scene is the fifth game is the series. In this game, Nancy's friend Maya is kidnapped while doing an interview in a historic theater. Nancy has three days to find Maya before the theater is demolished. I really enjoyed exploring the theater and solving the mystery here. Like many of the other games in the series, this one ties in some real history, in this case the history of stage magic. There weren't that many suspects, but they all had strong motives and most of them seemed helpful and cooperative from the beginning. I wasn't really sure who the kidnapper was until almost the end of the game. Your gameplay isn't actually timed, but having a three day time frame gave it a sense of urgency. The puzzles were pretty logical and probably the most straightforward of the Nancy Drew games I've played so far. There were a couple of places where I wasn't sure what I was supposed to be doing and needed a hint, but that was usually because I had forgotten to go back to finish a logic puzzle. Navigating the theater was probably the most difficult part. The movement hotspots were sometimes difficult to use and there were a couple of screens you had to approach in a pretty specific way. The game was old, but I didn't have any issues getting it to run. The graphics didn't look great on a big screen and some of the smaller words on items were hard to read. I couldn't tell what a couple of the inventory items were supposed to be until it was time to use them, and I think at least one of them might have said what it was on the box. There was once place where I had to repeat an entire long conversation after clicking on the character again because the conversations aren't skipable and it didn't count that I had already had the conversation. The Final Scene is one of the stronger Nancy Drew games I've played so far. The mystery and puzzles are both solid, on par with or better than the other games. It had fewer annoyances than some of the other games, and the issues I had with it were minor. 8/10