Nancy Drew: Danger on Deception Island
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Developer(s) | Her Interactive |
Publisher(s) | DreamCatcher |
Platform(s) | Windows |
Genre(s) | Adventure |
Mode(s) | Single player |
Danger on Deception Island is the ninth installment in the Nancy Drew computer game series (made solely by Her Interactive). It is based on the Nancy Drew book Whispers in the Fog.
Gameplay
Outline of the game
When Katie Firestone, a friend of George Fayne, invites Nancy to Deception Island for a whale-watching excursion, the sleuth arrives to find Katie's tour boat heavily vandalized.[1] A threatening note was left behind that warns Katie to "stop meddling". As Nancy investigates, she learns that the town of Snake Horse Harbor is up in arms over what should be done about an orphaned orca whale that has recently settled in the channel. But one person seems to stand in way of everyone's plans: a meddling Katie Firestone! As Nancy begins to question her allies, a simple vandalism case begins to unfold into something more mysterious and sinister.
As soon as Nancy investigates, she uncovers a dark plot concerning someone in Snake Horse Harbor, the orca does not appear what it seems to be and someone isn't who they are. Everyone has a secret to hide!
Characters
Katie Firestone
Katie is a marine biologist, and owns a whale watching tour. She is a friend of George Fayne's. Katie likes to talk when she has time, and admits that she and Holt aren't exactly friends. She is passionate about the resident orca and believes it should be taken to a facility to be researched.
Holt Scotto
Holt is an influential community member and veteran fisherman who won't take nonsense from anybody. He is a good storyteller and is running for public office as harbormaster. He believes that the whale is a nuisance, and is making it harder for the fisherman of Deception Island to do their job. Holt usually hangs at Jenna's cafe, The Hot Kettle.
Andy Jason
Andy is the owner of Whale World, which rivals Katie's whale-watching tour. He is nice mannered, but an aggressive businessman. A stickler for rules, he has offered to hire Katie and buy her boat just to own a larger tour chain on the coast, which she has refused several times.
Jenna Deblin
Jenna is a conservationist and the owner of the local coffee shop. She is usually very friendly, but when it comes to Katie and her research she gets pretty nasty due to their conflicting viewpoints about the orphaned whale. Jenna is passionate about ecology and nature.
Hilda Swenson
An unseen character that Nancy talks to on the phone. She is generally assumed to be crazy by the residents of Deception Island, as no one has seen her face-to-face in years. When she retired to a neighboring island, she left behind bizarre coded messages and strangely decorated gifts for Holt, Andy, and Jenna. She is only spoken to a few times towards the end of the game.
Accidents
As with all Nancy Drew games, in Danger on Deception Island, there are many fatal accidents, such as:
- Failing to put on a safety helmet when biking
- Giving Katie a rotten sandwich
- Eating a rotten sandwich
- Giving Holt a female Dungeness crab twice
- Slipping on rocks at Sandcastle Beach
- Failing to dodge falling lighthouse pieces
- Failing to wear life jacket
- Paddling past the buoys
- Crashing the kayak
- Failing to hide when the culprit is coming
- Not throwing the scuba tank at the whale so he can hit the culprit in the end
- Not running from your hiding place in the ending
- Getting caught by the culprit's henchmen
- Not running as fast as you can from the culprit.
However, if the player makes a mistake, they may click on "Second Chance" at the main menu and it will take them back to the place before they made that mistake.
Cast
- Nancy Drew -- Lani Minella
- Bess Marvin -- Alisa Murray
- George Fayne -- Jena Cane
- Frank Hardy -- Wayne Rawley
- Joe Hardy -- Rob Jones
- Katie Firestone -- Shelley McIntyre
- Jenna Deblin -- Amy Augustine
- Andy Jason/Casey Porterfield -- Jonah von Spreecken
- Holt Scotto -- Richard Stein
- Wood Expert -- Julie Rawley
- Hilda Swenson -- Shannon Kipp
Trivia
- Deception Island is a real place, found among the other South Shetland Islands.
- Snake Horse Harbor, the setting for this game may have to do with the Chinese symbols and animals on Message in a Haunted Mansion. The animals in that game (in order) had the snake followed by the horse.
- Clicking on the fish from the beach many times will result in a surprise.
- When the player is exploring the tunnels, they can open and close the hardware store door seven times to see something.
- In Nancy's suitcase, there are tokens from The Haunted Carousel.
- On the lighthouse, there is a sign that says "No Trespassing" with a red hand print, a reference to Secret of the Scarlet Hand.
- Nancy has a brochure of Beech Hill Museum in her suitcase, which is the museum from Secret of the Scarlet Hand.
- The calendar has a picture of two dogs from Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake.
- When you're clamming, Nancy finds a dog bone that says "Malone's Bones", a reference to Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake.
- When you get in an accident, like when you ride your bike without putting the helmet on or going past the channel markers while kayaking, the newspaper appears, saying "Deception Siland" instead of "Deception Island."
- Sometimes when you put a crab back, after putting it in your basket (when you are collecting a male crab for Holt near the beginning), Nancy will say "Allez bye-bye!" Jacques Brunais from Treasure in the Royal Tower and Heather McKay from Danger By Design have also been known to use this phrase when they say goodbye to you. So does LouLou, the pet bird, in Curse of Blackmoor Manor
- The magazine in Nancy's suitcase can also be found in Secret of the Scarlet Hand and Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake.
- Sometimes when there is a crab in your basket and you click it Nancy will say "Fight the Power, little one". "Fight the power" was the catchphrase of Nicholas Falcone in The Final Scene
References
- ^ "Kidzworld :: Nancy Drew Game". Kidzworld. Retrieved 2009-04-04.