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Nancy Drew 8: The Haunted Carousel (PC)

Another one down! And I thought the last title was lulzy because you only meet the ghost dogs once. The Carousel in this game isn't even haunted. You find out early on how it's activated, and the rest of the game is spent unraveling another unrelated mystery. To be fair, it was quite the engaging set of events and it didn't feel like it was an excuse for Nancy to do some chores around the park. More interestingly, the crappy attempt to scare people was not a Scooby Plot either. Turns out it was to drive the prices up for the carousel's designer-made horses so that the bad guy---a forger could make a better killing when he sold them.

New things in this game are mainly two things: Nancy has a checklist now to determine her objectives, so the game doesn't rely on unseen triggers to move the plot forward. And she has a celphone with speed-dial! No more manually dialling numbers although charmingly enough the option still exists. I miss the 90s Nokias and this brought back some nostalgia. I think this is also the first game that has multiple locations on a map seeing as the setting is an amusement park. There's also this extremely terrible real-time portion where you have to grab something while riding the carousel. It's as stupid as it sounds.

All in all, a very fun and intriguing mystery.
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