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title: "Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister - Mac"
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# Arcade mini-games Cross-platform play Storm chaser role Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister - Mac

**Brand:** microsoft
**Price:** $81
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🌩️ Unravel mysteries while chasing storms!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister - Mac by microsoft
- **How much does it cost?** $81 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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- microsoft enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted microsoft brand quality
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## Key Features

- • **Collect & Conquer:** Play arcade games to earn candy and rewards!
- • **Choose Your Challenge:** Select between Junior or Senior Detective levels!
- • **Storm Chasing Adventure:** Experience the adrenaline of tornado survival!
- • **Educational Meteorology Fun:** Learn about clouds and Doppler data while playing!
- • **Unleash Your Inner Detective:** Dive into the thrilling world of Nancy Drew!

## Overview

Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister for Mac invites players to step into the shoes of the iconic detective, Nancy Drew, as she embarks on a thrilling storm-chasing adventure. With cross-platform compatibility, players can immerse themselves in meteorology, tackle challenges at varying difficulty levels, and enjoy engaging arcade mini-games to collect rewards.

## Description

Product Description          Apprehend a Saboteur Stirring up Turbulent Trouble! $100,000,000 is at stake in this competition to discover a formula to predict tornado touchdowns. But when equipment starts failing and crew members are injured, you as Nancy Drew, must join the team to keep them in the competition. Is it just bad luck that's plaguing the storm chasers or is someone sabotaging their chances of winning?             .com           Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister is a single player point-and-click adventure for play on either the PC or Mac computer platforms. Based on the Nancy Drew novel, The Mystery of Tornado Alley, the game tasks the player to solve the mystery behind a string of accidents surrounding a $100 million competition involving tornado storm tracking. The game features classic Nancy Drew investigative gameplay, multiple non-player characters and a wealth in-game items to interact with, meteorological tools and theory, puzzle-solving gameplay and varying difficulty levels. .caption { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica neue, Arial, serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; } ul.indent { list-style: inside disc; text-indent: -15px; } table.callout { font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1. 3em; } td.vgoverview { height: 125px; background: #9DC4D8 url(https://images-na.ssl-images-.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/callout-bg.png) repeat-x; border-left: 1px solid #999999; border-right: 1px solid #999999; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px; width: 250px; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; }  Classic Nancy Drew sleuthing. View larger.  Integral puzzle-solving play. View larger.  Loads of item interaction. View larger.  Immersion into storm tracking science. View larger. Apprehend a Saboteur Stirring up Turbulent Trouble $100,000,000 is at stake in this competition to discover a formula to predict tornado touchdowns. But when equipment starts failing and crew members are injured, playing as Nancy Drew you must join the team to keep them in the competition. Is it just bad luck that's plaguing the storm chasers or is someone sabotaging their chances of winning in Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister? Gameplay Like other games in the popular Nancy Drew series, Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister is a single player mystery adventure game with additional puzzle-solving elements and the ability to read case files, save clues and items found, etc. Players assume the roll of teenage sleuth Nancy Drew, going under cover as a tornado researcher/storm chaser, utilizing the familiar point-and-click game mechanic to explore game areas and interact with non-player characters and in-game items. In order to solve this mystery you will also need to immerse yourself in the science of storm tracking. With the help of the Canute storm chasing team that is just what you will do. To help gather the data, and keep the team safe, the chase team brings along trucks full of equipment, including the actual trucks themselves. A sampling of the hardware players can expect to come across are: weather balloons, doppler radar, wind speed measuring devices, computers, cameras and more. Pay attention to all of this because eventually you will be tested on it in a number of ways, not the least of which being sleuthing in game areas rife with tornado activity.  The game also contains an economy that revolves around mini-game play. Players collect pennies through a variety of mini-games that will allow for the purchase of additional items in-game. These in turn allow for further progress in other aspects of the game. Additional gameplay features include adjustable difficulty settings. Key Game FeaturesPlay as Nancy Drew and go undercover as a storm chaserImmerse yourself in meteorology by studying clouds, reading Doppler data, and surviving tornadoesCollect pennies by playing arcade games to purchase candy from the storeChoose from Junior or Senior Detective difficulty levelsPlayable on both PC and Mac platformsMinimum System RequirementsPC: Mac: OS: Windows XP/Vista/7 OS X 10.5.8 Leopard/10.6.3 Snow Leopard Processor: 1 GHz or greater Pentium or equivalent class CPU Intel processor RAM: 256 MB 512 MB Hard drive: 1.1 GB or more Drive: 24 x CD-ROM Video card: 32 MB DirectX 9.0 compatible video card Intel GMA 950, ATI X1600, NVIDIA 7300 graphics card or better Sound card: 16 bit DirectX compatible sound card   Other: Mouse and speakers

## Features

- Playable on both PC and Mac platforms
- Play as Nancy Drew and go undercover as a storm chaser
- Immerse yourself in meteorology by studying clouds, reading Doppler data, and surviving tornadoes
- Collect pennies by playing arcade games to purchase candy from the store
- Choose from Junior or Senior Detective difficulty levels

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## Customer Reviews

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    Nancy Drew and the Ceaseless Chore List
  

*by L***A on Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2016*

This is a title that I skipped over for years. It just didn’t sound interesting to me and I knew that the reviews of it were mixed. It ended up being okay. It’s one that I would recommend only to established fans of the ND series. I'm going to split my review up into different sections so I can give the game a more accurate rating.PLOT - 3/5: Nancy is hired by PG Krolmeister to go undercover as an intern to investigate some suspicious happenings with the Canute College Tornado Chasing Team. PG is funding the team and providing their equipment for a competition in which college tornado chasing teams try to learn the most new information about storms.  The winning team wins an insane amount of money ($100,000,000!!) so obviously a lot is at stake. PG believes that someone within the team is sabotaging his equipment to prevent them from winning the competition.I had three problems with this plot. 1 – It was boring and lacked a sense of danger or urgency. 2 – The sabotage was kind of lame (i.e. luring mice into the house, broken video camera, broken GPS) 3 – There was little depth to the story line. Probably because it lacked any sort of sub plot.What kind of redeemed the game for me were the little extra things HER put into the game. I loved the TV in the farmhouse that played goofy TV shows and had references to past games. I loved that you could give candy to the suspects (and feed Nancy candy until she throws up). I especially loved that you could drive Nancy’s car like a maniac and crash into things.CHARACTERS – 3.5/5: The characters had a lot of potential here. The suspects were everyone on the storm team - Scott, Debbie, Chase, and Frosty - and Pa who owns the general store in town (who was my favorite). The voice acting was excellent and the personalities of the characters seemed very realistic. Unfortunately pretty much the only reason you talk to the characters is to receive chores from them.  I definitely would have liked to have better interaction with the characters, and also would have liked to see more developed relationships between them. Phone friends include PG Krolmeister, who was a lot of fun to listen to, and the Hardy Boys who unfortunately were pretty boring this time around.SETTING – 3.5/5: The setting was gorgeous but pathetically small. There were only two areas you could explore; the farmhouse and Pa’s store. There were no more areas unlocked throughout the plot. There were a couple more areas that Nancy could stop at in her car but they were only viewpoints for looking at clouds. But everything was so beautiful and lifelike. The rain looked awful however.PUZZLES – 2.5/5: So. Many. Chores. It was ridiculous. Every day in the game starts with Debbie giving Nancy a list of chores to do for that day, and then pretty much every time you talked to a character the conversation ended with them saying “Hey while you’re here, why don’t you do this for me?”  I get that Nancy was undercover as an intern, but she was also an intern in Danger by Design and her chores in that game weren’t nearly so numerous or obnoxious.  Her Interactive should have realized that a puzzle loses 99% of its entertainment value the minute it becomes a chore. So I really can’t say that I had fun with the puzzles in this game EXCEPT the mini game Land Rush at Pa’s store. I haven’t had that much fun with a mini game since playing scopa in The Phantom of Venice.IS IT CHALLENGING? – Kind of. The puzzles weren’t as difficult as the puzzles in the last game, Ransom of the Seven Ships. Some of them I could solve on my own and some of them I used a walkthrough for. I’d give it a 3.5 for challenge.ENDING -3.5/5: The ending was interesting. It was weird because Nancy pretty much discovers who the culprit is – she finds incriminating evidence against that person in the room where that character stays – but the game kept going for probably 45 minutes before Nancy actually realizes that that person is the culprit. And she accuses like two other characters of being the culprit in the meantime.  It drove me crazy. Nancy has caught culprits with less evidence than that in the past so it was just weird why the game didn’t end there.But once Nancy finally realizes who the culprit is and confronts them the ending was better. Nancy had to chase the culprit while simultaneously running from a tornado which made it a lot more exciting. I also liked how Nancy finally catches the culprit and I liked how everything was wrapped up in the monologue.FINAL SCORE:Plot: 3Characters: 3.5Setting: 3.5Puzzles: 2.5Challenge: 3.5Ending: 3.5= 19.5 divided by 6 = 3.25 rounded to 3

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A Pleasant Surprise
  

*by C***J on Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2013*

I purchased Trail of the Twister without expecting too much from it compared to the rest of the Nancy Drew series, because the majority of reviews on Amazon and elsewhere are unfavorable. I just finished playing through, and I was pleasantly surprised to discover a great game that contradicts much of what I read online.This was the 20th game of the series that I have played, out of 28 that currently have been released. I love so many of the games and marvel at the high quality experience they offer. Trail of the Twister is no exception to this standard:-The setting is beautiful. The game includes great visuals of the landscape and weather events. In contrast to some of the games, this one is extremely realistic, which I thought was a positive characteristic.-The background music is charming and well-written.-The story is engaging and real, which is refreshingly different from some of the games that include fantastical treasure hunts and supernatural events.-Although we don't look too personally into the lives of the characters, each one is unique and interesting.-The puzzles were my favorite part of the game. There are many of them, none of which are too difficult, but many of them are challenging enough to cause some momentary head scratching, which I love.-In contrast to many reports, I did not think this game was particularly short. This may be due to the two mini games that are used to earn money. There are plenty of reasons to earn as much money as possible, so I spent a lot of time playing and enjoying these games.Besides the entertainment value of the game, there is a lot of great information to be learned about tornadoes. I happened to be playing the game yesterday as a powerful tornado ripped through Oklahoma, and I found that I have a much greater appreciation of that event because of the game. Not only does the game take place in Oklahoma and touches on the devastation that these storms can bring, it also teaches about proper procedures for safety in case of these storms, cloud formations that can foreshadow tornadoes, and scales used to measure the storms, all of which is integrated seamlessly into gameplay.A lot of the reviews for Trail of the Twister are negative, but my experience with this installment was just the opposite. You may not enjoy this game if you don't like a lot of puzzles, but in that case you might consider a different game series altogether. This may be one of my favorite games in the Nancy Drew series.

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    Why do Trouble and Tornadoes follow me around???
  

*by H***H on Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2013*

Her Interactive's 22nd installment of Trail of the Twister was an installment filled with twists and turns and, oh, almost forgot, tornadoes! In this mystery, your main goal is to figure out why all of the team's equipment has been repeatedly breaking down, and who is responsible for the damage(it's not a tornado:)).  When you arrive in Oklahoma, you immediately find a tornado right in your own backyard!!! You run inside to find an immediate easy task or two for you to do. After you do each of the tasks, you get to meet all the characters after a bit. You also get to drive around town and explore, fix stuff, and hunt tornadoes.  One thing I like about this game is that there are plenty of places to explore, characters to talk to, and puzzles to solve. It is always fun when you get to explore a lot of places instead of just staying at the same spot the whole mystery.  One thing I didn't like about this mystery was that some graphs were hard to read or understand and the instructions weren't very clear. But then again, the instructions never seem to be all that clear...  At the end of the mystery, you have to outwit your culprit by going on a car chase and help them take shelter from an upcoming tornado! I was very surprised at how the ending turned out, and thought it was very well played.  Overall, this is one of the best editions to the Nancy Drew series! With plenty of action, adventure, and sabotage, you are sure to be thrilled! Thanks for reading my review of Trail of the Twister, Why do Trouble and Tornadoes always follow me around??? I hope you like this review and read my others! Thanks!

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