Welcome to my Nancy Drew: Danger By Design hints page. (-: If you're new to my series of low-spoiler computer game walkthroughs, the idea is to point gamerstowards things they might not have thought of in each game rather than divulging puzzle solutions or giving step-by-step instructions. There's not muchpoint in playing an adventure game if you know the puzzle solutions in advance, and there's no point at all in investigating an ominous mystery likeDanger By Design's if you've already had the story spoiled for you.Sponsored LinksSo these pages are as close to spoiler-free as possible while still providingsome valuable Danger By Design hints and game recommendations. If you are looking for the solution to a particular puzzle, I recommendUHS-due to their unique website setup you can only see one hint at a time,so you can get the answer to one pesky puzzle without ruining all the others for yourself.Here's the if you're interested.My site here focuses on exactly the things traditionalwalkthroughs don't: the non-critical bits of Danger By Design, detours you can take, little things you can do to smooth the gameplay out for yourself,extra details you might miss if you did only what was strictly necessary to complete the game. If you want even fewer spoilers-you're considering whetherto buy the game, for example, and want to know whether there's anything you're going to detest in it-please try mypage to find all the pertinant information in one convenient spoiler-freepackage.Now, on with the game!Nancy Drew: Danger By Design is a modern PC adventure game in the popular.Like the other Nancy Drew games, Danger By Design offers a simple 1st-person point-and-click interfacewith which to navigate a small gameworld, solving puzzles and interrogating suspects. This one isset in Paris. These are relatively easy games, designed with young teens in mind, andDanger By Design is very much plug and play.
However, there are a number of things you may wantto be aware of before beginning to play in order to get maximum enjoyment out of the game.Without spoiling anything:Difficulty Setting: There is very little difference to the gameplay depending which difficulty setting you use.There are no additional puzzles if you play on Senior Detective, but a few of them are made easier for Junior players.If you play as a Junior, Nancy also makes a few more leading comments as she goes along, keeps track of more things in hernotebook, and can ask her American friends for hints over the telephone. None of these are very important differences and ifyou've played the game on one setting, there is no need to go back and play it again on the other.Savegames: Like other games in this series, Danger By Design is well-constructed and does not sufferfrom serious bugs; in fact, the Nancy Drew games have a 'second chance' feature that allows you to automatically replayany scene in which Nancy dies or fails at her mission, so you theoretically shouldn't need to worry about savegames at all.Even in practice, one savegame should suffice. Which is good, because the savegame mechanism in the Nancy Drew games is extremely annoying.Time Management: There are several timed sequences in Danger By Design- ringing telephones that must be answeredin a certain amount of time to avoid annoying Minette, and so forth.
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If you run out of timeon any of these, though, the 'second chance' feature will restart the timer and let you try again. Except for these timed challenges,time does not matter in Danger By Design- every night as the sun sets Nancy will automatically go back to her bedroomand the game will start again the next morning, but this is irrelevant to the gameplay.
It doesn't matter if you conclude this quest inthree days or thirteen; other than the newspaper headlines changing, there is no difference, and nothing in the gamechanges except in response to actions you've taken yourself.Interrogation: You have a selection of different dialogue choices during most conversations with suspects inDanger By Design, but in most cases your choices do not affect anything in the game. (There is one exception, which the gamewarns you may have an effect: if you investigate carefully enough you will have a choice whether to tell Minettea secret about Heather or not, and the plot will progress differently depending on your decision.) Other conversational choicesdo not affect gameplay. You should, however, make an effort to exhaust every line of conversationwith every character, both because it gives you more details so that you can figure the mystery out for yourself, and also because the actof conversing with an NPC sometimes triggers an unrelated plot event to happen somewhere else in the game.Using French: Everyone Nancy has to talk to speaks English, and she automatically translates letters and signs that she readsfor you. However, there are a few puzzles involving French words which you will need to translate for yourself.
July 11th, 2014Instead of a weekend puzzle, I have a REAL Nancy Drew mystery for you to solve! It’s something I’m working on solving, too.For many years, I have seen discussions on the message board as well as seen emails come in that question about the Easter Eggs in. Now before you jump to any specualtions, keep in mind that “Easter Eggs” can be actual artistic eggs in your inventory as shown in this image, or they can simply be a fun item or reward or reference in the game, like spotting a Koko Kringle sticker in or something.However, I need your help in defining the Easter Eggs in The Creature of Kapu Cave! Are you ready for the challenge?Based on my research in the Her Interactive archive files and notes, here is all I have gathered:Clue #1 – The Early Design NotesThese are the notes our designer gives to the production team to write the code for an Easter Egg to be entered into the game.
This is awesome! And what great timing too! On the message boards, myself and two other users are doing a Group Play of CRE to try and find if there are Easter Eggs. We’ve been discussing possibilities the last few days. I have gotten the trinkets before, and I can confirm they were from Wiki Tiki. My trick is to save the game right as the screen is about to shift over to the prize slot.
Then you can reload a bunch of times until you get one of the two 😉 But that blue Easter Egg is very interesting! I really hope we can all find a way to access it! Wouldn’t it be so cool to find an egg now after all these years! П˜€ Anyways, this is such a cool blog post to see after thinking through what could possibly trigger the egg, especially since you can help all the fans with your availability to the archives and such. Ooooooooh fun challenge! Right now I’m playing The Captive Curse, but soon I’ll try to put Kapu Cave on my computer and do some investigating with you! Sounds like fun!
П˜€ (That is one mysterious Easter Egg 😉.On another subject.I had an idea for a video, so I thought I’d run it past you to see what you think. I think an interview with the game cover artists would be super! I myself would LOVE to know how they design a game cover and how they come up with ideas. You could (maybe) show early sketches (if that’s what they do) of a past game cover or show that cover in its stages of making. Just an idea for you and/or Dahlia!.ALSO. I painted two oil paintings of Nancy a while back.
I was wondering if you could post them here on the blog. Could you tell me the email address I should send them to?
What should I mention in the email? I’m on the case! While I don’t yet know if the two shown trinkets are won in Wiki Tiki, I have figured out a nearly fool proof way to beat the game.
It works best if you start with Ahi, as the computer tends to begin with Pohaku. In the next round it will likely try to beat you with Ahi, so choose Wai. Sometimes this will result in a tie, and if that’s the case, follow in the next round with Pohaku since the computer usually sticks with Wai. From this point forward, figure out what you should choose next by figuring out what the computer would use against your most recent attack, and then choose its corresponding attacker. For example, if you chose Pohaku and beat Wai, then the computer will likely follow up your attach with Ahi, in which case, you should choose Wai as it defeats Ahi.
Hopefully that makes sense; it works 95% of the time, and the key is winning the first round. Good luck, and I’ll report any other findings here to the blog!
Well, I’ve opened all the lockers in the Hilihili five times each, and inputted every single employee code with Level 3 access into the computer in the greenhouse thing, but haven’t come up with any Easter Eggs. And Banana, A.
Were both dead ends; I opened Banana, A.’s locker 10 times and nothing popped, and Surprise, A. Didn’t have a locker, so I put the employee code into the computer in the greenhouse several times, but nothing came of that either. As for the trinkets, I’ve played Wiki Tiki so many times that I’ve lost count, but I’ve only ever gotten the shark tooth, however I will keep trying. Things aren’t looking good so far, but I will follow this mystery through!
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