I remember going over to my friend’s house and playing this game on her computer. When the “do you smoke?”/“only when I’m on fire” joke played her mom verbally laughed from the other room 😂
Also, if you notice- they attack, and then the next day, the culprit finds out that Nancy is trapped and CAN'T leave. There's no point in trying to scare her off when they've already succeeded in scaring away the OWNER of the house, and Nancy doesn't have the option of leaving yet.
I think the paw prints on Mickey's grave suggest that Emily had gone to extensive measures to convince others that the dogs haunting Sally's property were in fact Mickey Malone's as they wanted to join their owner in the grave. It's like she wanted to add tremendous and perhaps unnecessary detail to the illusion she was creating. Too bad the rest of Emily's plot was a complete and total failure. Perhaps she'll pull a Dwayne Powers and reappear in a future game as a "wiser and more cunning" villain. I'm not holding my breath though. Her voice gave me a headache.
Also, Akers and the bird watcher are the two of the most incessantly butt-hurt individuals I've ever seen in the Nancy Drew series with the exception of Lillian Weiss. Remember kids, empathy and sympathy are virtues. Without them you end up completely anti-social, vindictive, manipulative, or portrayed in a video game.
What about the lock thing? Red says that Sally locks all the doors and sits tight until morning/Sally tells Nancy to lock all the doors and windows, but Nancy says there are no locks on the doors and windows.
@@jamesgotte4552 Yes Message in The Haunted Mansion is My Favorite Nancy Drew Game The Music is Chilling and They did A Great job for what They could do with Ghost Scares with A Limited Budget it just goes to Show You that Sometimes A Lower Budget can Make A Game Much Scarier than One with A Huge Budget
Most of the Nancy Drew games are rated E for Everyone, with a mention of "Mild Violence". Two of the games (Icicle Creek, and Sea of Darkness), have a further mention of "Alcohol Reference". But this game doesn't, despite the fact that part of it takes place in a speakeasy.
I think the main problem with this game is that the whole task of earning the spark plug and everything that went along with it (birds, critters) takes up about half of the game! I wish there were a few more scarier moments as well.
Some Rebuttals: 9. The floorboards have clearly deteriorated further since Sally put the note up. 20. Red's boat is probably near Red's campsite. As we never see the campsite, it's not surprising that we don't see the boat. 26. The paw prints came from the dogs. We don't need to assume they "attacked" the mausoleum. They wander around a lot when they're loose. The game doesn't explain if Emily put them there deliberately or if it was inadvertent, but it doesn't matter. 32. This one is okay but it raises another question. Did Red also build a treehouse on Sally's property without permission? Or was it already there? 36. Presumably Emily borrowed the recorder, but Red didn't want to hand over his own personal tapes as well. 38. Even professionals use reference works. Also, the recorder might be used to attract birds. 51. The tape must have been recorded on another recorder.
Red implies that he's been coming to Moon Lake for years. Sally only bought the cabin a few months ago. Either Red built his deck while it was abandoned, or he got permission from a previous owner.
When I played this game I seriously thought that Red was for sure the culprit. All his bird watching, and only doing it at night, seemed like it must for sure be a cover for being on Sally's property. The entire game, I was certain it would be him. Everything about him screamed "Sketchy!"
Me too, only my brother did most of the solving lol. We did the whole game without learning the internet had walkthroughs XD I gotta say, our commentary was golden
@@theblackswan723 If this Game ever does get Remastered Her Interactive definitely needs to edit out The Bird and Bug Puzzles for Nancy doing more Investigations about Mickey Malone and His Dogs
This is seriously the best series on your channel. I've loved these games ever since I was a little girl, but it would take forever for my dad and I to figure them out on our own. I'm older now, and still absolutely in love with the ND games. I love your guides on IGN (by the way, the Nancy Drew figure you create out of D's is literally awesome), and I appreciate all the time and effort you put in to making them and the video walkthroughs. I will forever be a fan :)
I know the dogs don't attack more than once, but when you're out at night, they do howl, which is scary if you don't already know they can't do anything. My first game and a great introduction to the series. Annoying chores, sure, but historical subplot and the amount and difficulty of the puzzles was just right. Everyone loves Secret of Shadow Ranch even though the vegetable puzzle sucks
3. According to UHS-Hints, Her Interactive says the house is L-shaped, so Nancy moved her car into the crook of the house so it would be out of the way... But when?!
Just played this (happy Canadian thanksgiving!) for nostalgia. I laughed so hard at how everyone torments Nancy and ignores her brush with death when she escapes the shed. I also found her letter to Ned at the end hilarious. Surely she would get to River Heights before the letter does? How did helicopters and vans full of reporters know to get to the cabin AS the culprit is caught? Why are we forced to go to the cemetery, try a password, go back to the cabin, get the password, go back to the cemetery, batteries fail, go back to the ca... you get it!
This game is so nostalgic for me, this was my first ND game. :) Couldn't finish it though back then though, I was just a little kid and it scared the shit out of me. Didn't help my sister told me it can turn night when you're in the forest and the dogs can get you. My sister was a jerk. Nowadays I beat it regularly because of nostalgia, as well as Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon.
When Red came running to the fire, he said he came running from his platform. When he enters the screen he hurries in from the left side of the screen, but the path to his platform is located to the right of the screen.
Something that always bothered me is that on the first night Red doesn’t check on Nancy after the ghost dogs attack. If he were truly innocent, wouldn’t he also be concerned about the attack?
Missed scary opportunity! When you're out at night, you face like a 30 or 40% chance for a dog attack and so your guard always has to be up. If you hear them howling, Nancy says "I've gotta get out of here" and retreats to the house. Death scene optional probably, but man that would've added a whole new level of scary to the game
I can't remember if I already commented on this and don't want to search through 145 comments to see if anyone else did but Michael is incorrect about 56 & 57. Red gives you the sparkplug and the camera at the same time. You do NOT have to take the bird pictures in order to acquire the spark plug. I got tripped up on this myself the last time I replayed the game this past summer and ranted about it on my tumblr and then realized that I had the spark plug from the same time I got the camera and somehow missed it in my inventory. I made another post on my tumblr after this discovery saying how sheepish I felt.
Emily found one of Mickey Malone's keys, so she probably just went in through the cemetery as Nancy did. Mind you, this doesn't explain how she knew the key went to the tombstone, but c'est la vie. I was ALSO let down by how eerie the Haunted Carousel trailer at the end of Ghost Dogs is...and how not scary the actual game is.
Ghost Dogs was my first game and Message in a Haunted Mansion was my second. Only reason I finished them the first time was my Dad took over for me when I got scared. Years later he still reminds me of this when I play through these games for the 30th+ time by myself.
This was one of two games (Danger on Deception Island being the other) I played growing up. As an adult, replaying the two games and playing the other ND games I realized I only enjoy Ghost Dogs cause of nostalgia lol. It's an objectively frustrating game.
MEMBassist2 we found out that she had planted speakers so I'm guessing that not only did she use them for the dog whistle, but that she used them to play dog howling noises
Well at 76 , is obvious that nancy 'changed' her clothes because this is a 2002 game , developer were needed to save recources because back then computers weren't good at drawing graphics on the screen
"Nobody cares that a creepy bird watcher stays at Sally's property without permission" I mean hunters come into our yard to get into the woods without permission. That's accurate to Pennsylvania.
Some Additional Problems: 1. Moon Lake is a location from the Nancy Drew books. Game's title suckers buyer into thinking the game takes place in River Heights. 2. Nancy tells Red that Mickey buried gold in the 20's, but the Heist was in 1931. 3. Red says the dogs died one by one, but the tombstones say the dogs all died on the same day. 4. Aker's diary mentions the dogs being alive after their tombstones say they were dead. 5. re #96. Not only is the electricity working, the lights were left on all those years. Emily will have to sell the house to pay her electric bill. 6. The Poem and the Clock are clues to the Dog Puzzle, but are unneeded. As the Dog Puzzle only has 256 possibilities and it's easy to zip through them, you can easily solve it by trial and error.
The listed death date is Mickey Malone's. The dogs themselves were still alive at that point. Why exactly William Akers (or whoever did it) decided to put that date on all the tombstones is beyond me, though.
Has no one else pointed out that, when this 18 year old girl approaches this 40+ year old man asking for help, his first response is, "Well, you could take some pictures for me...." That's creepy as fuck, Redd.
yea i didn't enjoy this game either i actually got creeped out while playing it! i actually ended up selling it in a yardsale so i could get rid of it e-e
@@dreamielynn1264 Yes I'm definitely going to have to disagree with The Characters in this Game The Ghost Dogs clearly have Green Eyes when They attack Sally's/ Mickey Malone's House
