
I tried for eons to get various codes to work.

I had a wallet full of numbers including the character's boyfriend's birthday.

In the second sticker, I had a PDA with a secret code required to get into it. But apparently I wasn't clicking on the piece in the exact right spot, and my boyfriend had to fight with it for a while before chancing on that. I must have clicked on the pieces hundreds of times. In one, I read the manual several times and tried everything I could think of to get the pieces to spin. The two puzzles I didn't solve immediately were both incredibly annoying. I played at the senior level, but found most of the puzzles extremely easy. but suddenly after doing one trigger action they've vanished, or have thought up something new to say? And you don't ask the obvious questions like 'where were you?' until much later? So you end up wandering around the theater, going back to every single room, going to talk to every person, multiple times until they move into their 'next stage' of conversation. You've already talked to the main people involved. On the other hand, this can get frustrating. On one hand this is good, because you don't have hours of wandering back and forth to do. You get to know the theater quite well, and the few people that you deal with. The game is on a relatively small map, so you're not trekking around from world to world. Nancy loves to chat with her friends and boyfriend, and shows her youth, but she also has a level head and intelligence.

This definitely isn't the case with Nancy. Other games involving female heroines, like The Longest Journey and Syberia, tend to make them 'girly' and bubble-headed. I was very encouraged to find Nancy done as an intelligent young woman who was still very realistic. Her friend is kidnapped, and Nancy has three days to help rescue her before a theater is torn down - perhaps with Maya inside it! In this installment, Nancy Drew is in St Louis to visit a friend, Maya. These are great games for any puzzle solver in your life, young or old, male or female! There's a series of Nancy Drew detective stories out.
