Nancy Drew®: Shadow at the Water's Edge

This is one of the longer, more difficult games (at least in my opinion). However, it is easily one of my favorites. PROS: Great music, difficult puzzles, immersive atmosphere, and decent storyline/characters. CONS: There are a lot of phone conversations (personal preference). Nancy is also extremely nosey and apathetic in the game.

Other than the stupid sudoku puzzles, I really like this one.

I enjoyed the Bento, I did enjoy the plot of the story and the characters.

Game 170 of my backlog A much better overall entry into the series after playing The Ghost Dogs at Moon Lake (which I didn't like). Longer and more difficult but the puzzles were not outlandish and annoying and not complete fetch quests. The minigames were fun, and tied into the actual game. The only potentially annoying part of this one is the Sudoku portion. It's required to play it. While it is not a difficult game (in general) to play, the one in this one is very forgiving and overall straightforward. I actually like Sudoku so this was a relaxing experience for me

Love the spooky factor of this Nancy mystery and the cutesy Japanese vibes of things like Bento, Plinko, and Suki the Robot Cat. I got addicted to Sudoku and Renograms - but HATED the nonograms. Overall the plot, location and characters are likeable and the puzzles are good, but I wish we didn't have to keep on skipping days to trigger things happening as sometimes it felt like all I was doing was sleeping until 7 pm, then again until 1 am. More could have been done with the hotel setting as was done in Carousel/Blackmoor/Tower with things like room service or helping with hotel tasks instead of making Nancy just another guest, but that's just nitpicky! Still has a spot in my top ten.

This is a classic Nancy Drew game and its a joy to come back and be able to play these games again. This specific game is great if you're someone who's into puzzles like nanograms and sudoku. My one qualm with this ND game is that some of the events didn't make sense to me, like [spoiler] getting all of the images from Yuri; they came in a weird order at weird times and I was missing one until I just...walked around for awhile [/spoiler]. Overall this is super nostalgic and fun.