Nancy Drew: The Model Mysteries (Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSi)
common sense media says
Mysteries combined with easy puzzles, but with tween themes.
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that Nancy Drew: The Model Mysteries is a mystery about sabotaging the upcoming marriage between a supermodel and a reality TV star. All of the activities leading up to and even after the marriage are being filmed for reality TV. Ex girlfriends behave badly and scary things happen including the groom drinking from a punch bowl spiked with poisonous gasoline. While most of the gameplay involves solving hidden object puzzles, the game skews older because some of the themes include scary stalkers, harassment, and relationships between young adults.
Educational value:
Some of the puzzles test spelling and memory.
Positive role models:
Nancy Drew is the primary role model and she is brainy, thoughtful, and tenacious. There are a few bad role models in the game, but they are usually the bad guys (or gals).
Ease of play:
The game is relatively easy to play. With a heavy emphasis on hidden object puzzles, players must find 10 objects in 3 minutes or else start the puzzle again with a different list of 10. Hints are available and if you have to replay, none of the objects move. The interrogation is limited to 3 questions at every interview, so you may not get enough information to solve the mystery and end up choosing the wrong suspect. If so, you will have to play through the act again.
Violence:
Scary things happen to both the bride and groom. Threatening text messages refer to murder, a stalker leaves disturbing notes, a TV set light falls barely missing people, and a body (which turns out to be a mannequin) is found floating face down in a pool filled with poisonous lionfish.
Sex:
At one point in the mystery, a groomsman is suspected of causing life-threatening accident and Nancy asks to search his room. She gets the key to his room from one of the bridesmaids, which may raise the question of why that bridesmaid had the groomsman's key. Nothing more is discussed and the game shows no sexual relationship between the two.
Language:
Not applicable.
Consumerism:
This game is based on the trilogy of Nancy Drew books, and may interest kids in buying/reading the source books.
Drinking, drugs, & smoking:
There is one reference to a food establishment serving good "Mead."
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kid, 13 years old
kid, 13 years old
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awsomeman2
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kid, 13 years old
i haven't actually played nancy drew but i belive its kind of violent
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liverslove123
kid, 11 years old
kid, 11 years old
Perfect and can be scary
I would let kids play it but just to warn you it can get a little scary for some kids.
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Amirshaw
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Great Game
This game is great, really good fun and won't be confusing. Won't even cost a thing to get the game if you did what i did, I signed up at this link gifts4points*/home?ref=amirshaw and did a few surveys and got the game free, but overall this game is great.
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