Nancy Drew: Stay Tuned for Danger

Nancy Drew: Stay Tuned for Danger
Developer(s) Her Interactive
Publisher(s) DreamCatcher
Platform(s) PC
Release date(s) November 13, 1999
Genre(s) Adventure
Mode(s) Single player

Stay Tuned for Danger is the second installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive.[1][2][3] It was officially discontinued in 2011. The game had an ESRB rating of E for moments of mild violence and peril. Players took on the first-person view of fictional amateur sleuth Nancy Drew and solved the mystery through interrogation of suspects, solving puzzles, and discovering clues. The game featured longer game play and improved graphics compared to the previous game, Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill. It was also the first game in the series to feature three-dimensional suspects. There were three levels of gameplay, Junior, Senior, and Master detective modes, each offering a different difficulty level of puzzles and hints, however none of these changes affected the actual plot of the game. The game was loosely based on a book of the same name Stay Tuned for Danger (1987).[4]

Plot

Nancy Drew is invited to New York City to stay with Mattie Jensen, a popular soap opera star. Mattie wants Nancy to investigate the death threats that her co-star, Rick Arlen, has been receiving.

Throughout the game, Nancy discovers each character has a motive for threatening Rick:

Development

Toledo Blade reported that the game was in development in an issue released on April 3, 1999.[5]

Characters

Cast

Discontinuance

Stay Tuned for Danger was officially discontinued on November 17, 2011 due to incompatibility issues with sound cards in newer computers. Although Her Interactive released a remastered version of its first game Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill, they have not announced plans to remaster any other older games, including Stay Tuned for Danger.[7]

Critical reception

New Strait Times wrote that while Stay Tuned for Danger "had a certain voyeuristic charm", the game "suffered from some of the most contrived puzzles ever put in an adventure game"[8][8]

References

Preceded by
Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill
Nancy Drew Computer Games Succeeded by
Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion
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