Clara, Jessalyn's mother, seems fairly objective about the ghost, but she seems to be following the example of past family members by abusing her employees. Unlike previous games in the series, however, all of the characters in this game are somber and serious, with very little humor to break the mood.
The eerie, fog covered grounds and creaky mansion are unsettling enough, but the haunting screams, ghostly visages, and tense music all ratchet up the creep factor.Ĭharacters are a major part of any Nancy Drew game. The developer has again done a good job incorporating some real life history into the game's mythos, with plenty of historical facts about the Civil War and the plantation economy of the deep Southern Colonies. Fortunately, there are plenty of rooms in the creepy old house for Nancy to explore, as well as a graveyard, a tomb, and many crypts on the property. Once the boat that brings Nancy there pulls away, she is stuck on the island for the duration of her investigation. The game is set in a ruined old plantation home, inconveniently located on a small island. It is up to Nancy to figure out who (if any) among the current family members and friends can be trusted, whether there really is a ghost at Thornton Hall, and, of course, the whereabouts of the missing Jessalyn. The blame for their deaths lies squarely on the family's ancestors, whose unscrupulous business practices including locking workers in overnight to keep them working around the clock. The older tragedy involves the deaths of dozens of workers at the cotton gin, also from a fire, decades ago. Her ghost is now rumored to be haunting the place. The most recent tragedy involves the death of Charlotte, the cousin of the family's matriarch Clara, in a suspicious fire. However, it soon becomes apparent that they have brought their old family dramas with them. The old family, descended from wealthy cotton plantation owners, show up to help.
This time, Nancy travels to a small island in bayou country, where she must find Jessalyn Thornton, a bride-to-be who has gone missing during a ghost hunting adventure. All in all, it is a fun game that fans of previous Nancy Drew games will not be disappointed. Compared to those games, this game stands out as the scariest and creepiest of them all, with some genuinely hair-raising moments that may well frighten even an adult (much less a youngster).
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Ghost of Thornton Hall is a nice fit with other games in the Nancy Drew series that also have a horror theme, which include Message in a Haunted Mansion, Curse of Blackmoor Manor, Legend of the Crystal Skull, and (most recently) The Haunting of Castle Malloy. As fans of the series will note, previous games in the series tend to fall into one of the recurring themes: horror, science, history, or travel. Nancy Drew: Ghost of Thornton Hall is the 28th title in Her Interactive's popular and long-lived Nancy Drew series of first-person graphic adventure games.
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