New Nancy Drew detective game heads to DS
Majesco announces The Mystery of the Clue Bender Society
She's been knocking around so long now she should be approaching 90, but the beauty of fictional characters is everlasting. So Nancy Drew is still firmly a teenage detective in her latest DS game, Nancy Drew: The Mystery of the Clue Bender Society.
It's her second game for the handheld – the first one being the just-released The Deadly Secret of Olde World Park. This follow-up promises more of the same detective adventuring but with a whole new plot revolving around the Clue Bender Society, which is an oddly named group of the world's greatest detectives.
When it offers to accept a new member, Nancy Drew is among the top three applicants. But during the preliminary detective examinations a real-life test arises when a secret book containing the solutions to history's greatest mysteries goes missing from the society. And yes, Nancy gets on the case to find it. As much as anything because she wants to have a leaf through to find out why toast always lands butter side down when you drop it.
The game has nine chapters in total and features all sorts of touchscreen interaction for retrieving fingerprints, playing various detective games, accessing the suspect file and using a special map feature.
In between all this studious work and trailing and interrogating suspects, Nancy even gets to take to a snowmobile and a boat. The DS microphone is also used for certain hidden clues and Nancy's been dragged into the 21st century so that now she possesses a mobile phone, too.
The Mystery of the Clue Bender will be released this summer – presumably that's for the UK as well as in the US. Unfortunately there aren't any screenshots yet so the one above is from the previous game (and should at least give you an idea of what to expect).
