nancy drew 13: last train to blue moon canyon

last train to blue moon canyon marks the end and the beginning of a number of things in these games. it's notably bigger than previous games--the first to come on 2 cd-roms, a trend which would continue until the most recent game. it's also the first time where you can play as a character other than nancy. and! the hardy boys are here. that's right, after teasing us with phone conversations for years, her interactive finally let us see some of nancy's pals. just don't get used to what they look like (more on that later).



the premise of last train to blue moon canyon is that lori girard, a paris hilton clone, has gathered a group of people on an old steam train which once belonged to a man called jake hurley. he had a mine which he would never reveal the location of, but the train was fitted out to take him and his tragically short-lived wife, camille, across the country in comfort. lori's plan is to take the train out towards where he was last seen to give the group time to solve how to find the mine and ideally what happened to him. naturally, everyone except for nancy and the hardys are immediately uninterested in solving those mysteries, but the hardys can't be going about getting underfoot, so they post up at the dining table and offer encouragement. nancy does all the work.
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