Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave focuses on science using bugs, including butterflies (while plugging scientific terminology like Lepidoptera). While the GPS puzzle isn\'t terribly innovative, this is an area that general girl culture doesn\'t include. For instance, Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave requires players to use basic GPS coordinates. Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave addresses biotechnology, and girls and science more largely. Nancy Drew: Danger by Design addresses girls and food with respect to the fashion industry and healthy eating habits. The Nancy Drew games are formulaic-collect items, solve puzzles, make phone calls-but they innovate on that formula by emphasizing different cultural concerns. The Nancy Drew games by Her Interactive provide this bridge in a usable and enjoyable format. On the other hand, girls and women who play casual games or other atypical games don\'t necessarily have a way to bridge into other games or into technology in general. Girls and women that already play games have already committed to enjoying typical games and the requirements therein (fighting, skilled eye-hand coordination). Her Interactive\'s Nancy Drew games aren\'t serious games in the normal usage (a usage which is still being established), but they are serious because they appeal to the atypical girl and women players. Serious games-while not always as stellar as mainstream games in terms of visuals and graphics-reshape typical requirements by adding innovation in terms of concerns that the games address. ![]() Instead of advances in technology or interface design, Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave stresses the character of Nancy Drew and the game\'s story. While this would be a firmly marked point against them, their intended audience, intent, and emphasis change the normal reviewing criteria. The more Nancy Drew games I play by Her Interactive, the more formulaic they seem, because they are formulaic in many senses. The game and the narrative progress together with the player solving puzzles to learn more about the story, which in turn leads to new puzzles. Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave again relies on the typical adventure gaming point-and-click interface. While this could be a problem for many games which require new controls or displays to differentiate themselves from the earlier games, games in the Nancy Drew series are individualized primarily through the storyline. With this exciting mystery, the game opens for Nancy to again find clues and solve the mystery.Īs a series game, Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave is much like a book in a book series with each game following the same character and the same general design. ![]() At the outset, Nancy only knows that the pineapple crop has been devastated and that rumors on a mystical power have begun to spread. The Hardy Boys are also on the island, on another mission that may have ties to Nancy\'s investigation. Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave begins with Nancy traveling to Hawaii to work as Dr. Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave is another solid entry in the Nancy Drew series by Her Interactive.
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