Nancy Drew®: Trail of the Twister

This one isn't my favorite by any means. But I still enjoyed some moments. Some people in the reviews are complaining about the chores, it makes sense in the game because Nancy is an intern. So she has to do silly tasks. Pros: Pretty much always having something to do. Lot of cute and fun tasks. (Grocery shopping) Cons: Repeatedly catching the mice Lack of convos, not a lot of deep story in this one, more just simple puzzles and tasks. Lackluster ending Some environmentalist garbage. No, you do not need to "save" mice.

if there was a mixed option I would go with that, but I am leaning towards a recommended but with lots of notes about playing it. For me the reason to play this is the cool puzzle ideas, sure they are mostly chores but they actually feel like puzzles and don't feel like busy work. The graphics look really nice as well, though a bit dated. The story and the pacing is what makes it clunky, the story is a little not interesting and does not dwell on the mystery aspect as much as it is with the "Nancy helps out a group" trope, which feels kind of grating at one point. There are also so many times where I got lost on what or how to do something next and there is no indication or person to talk to to repeat instructions, which I find an odd choice for a point and click game. Overall I still had fun, and the game had enough content to take up a lot of time of play, so even though I had so many gripes about it, I still enjoyed a lot of the puzzles so I'm leaning towards a slight recommendation.

As an avid Nancy Drew game player and long-time fan of the franchise, Trail of the Twister is by far my least favorite game of HeR Interactive that I've played. It's very puzzle heavy and light on the story, making it feel more like performing chores than playing a game. The narrative isn't nearly as engrossing as the others, and the drive to complete the game was very low for me. The puzzles tended to come with less instruction than needed sometimes, and I had to use online hints waaaaaaay more than normal. I usually use one or two a game, but for this one I needed it more often than not. There weren't as many interesting plot points as the other games have, which weren't balanced well with the number of tasks or effort/time required to complete them. Very disappointed in this installment of the series.

Trail of the Twister was just okay. The driving function from Secret of the Old Clock is back, but is not as fun and very boring and confusing with the excessive twists and turns with little to act as landmarks. The GPS feature is a life saver. Very straight forward play through. Nancy is directed to go do tasks or talk to people. I enjoyed the mouse trap puzzle and it's a good thing because Nancy has to play it FOUR TIMES. Quite excessive. There are enough puzzles to keep you busy, and several of them are fun. A couple of the puzzles were not explained well at all and I had to look up the strategy. I will say all the random big storms and tornadoes are rather frightening, especially as Nancy goes out driving in them. Overall, I won't be reaching for this one again for a long while, there are several other Nancy Drew games that are better.

I've played the majority of the Nancy Drew games that have been released; while this one certainly isn't my favorite, it also isn't nearly as awful as some reviews would suggest. It is a little more errand focused than other games - the commuting around is a bit obnoxious, but most locations are fairly close so it isn't terrible. If anything, I'd lament that it feels as though part of the intro is missing? The story just... starts, and while it does make enough sense, it feels like part of the exposition was cut for one reason or another and the immersion is a little more lackluster than other games. The puzzles are generally enjoyable, I only really found myself using a guide for a few of them because I couldn't quite get my brain to think about them the way I needed to. The artificial urgency of the puzzles is a little excessive - none of them are timed, despite the background chatter suggesting otherwise. I wouldn't recommend this to someone who doesn't like the other Nancy Drew games - but if you've played most of the other ones, it's a very quick play by comparison (I had 4 hours and probably could have been a bit faster) and it's at least enjoyable enough to justify spending that much time in it.

I've played all games up until this one (game 22) (minus game 20, as I got into ND only recently) and I expected this to be really bad and boring because everyone seems to rank it very low but it's ... fine? I'd actually say it's quite good. Yes most of the puzzles are basically chores but they don't feel tedious and give you variety (unlike other chore-heavy games (looking at you, White Wolf)). I also like how the game has a lot of puzzles of decent difficulty. At first I thought the mystery was really meaningless but it actually got intriguing and I wanted to continue playing to find out what was happening. So don't get discouraged from the bad reputation this game gets, see for yourself and you might find a very solid and fun B-Tier Nancy Drew game. Stay away from the screenshots on Steam though, some spoil the culprit and ending without having a spoiler warning.

I played a demo for this game a long time ago,. and thought the game was pretty fun. Finally decided to buy the full game and finish it. I really like some of the puzzles they have in the game.