Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave

In Nancy Drew: The Creature Of Kapu Cave, Nancy travels to Hawaii as a research assistant for Dr. Quigley Kim to determine why the population of native caterpillars has exploded. The Hardy Boys, on a separate covert operation, are also visiting -- and both stumble across the mystery of the Hilihili research compound and its evil vibes. Some believe it's linked to the legend of Kane ?Okala. Local legend has it that a long time ago, a man was sacrificed to the hungry volcano to appease it. Kane ?Okala, or "the rough-skinned man," later escaped from the volcano, but he was scarred for life with a rough-skinned and frightening appearance. When Nancy arrives at Camp Quigley, she sees a monster ravaging the camp, and soon discovers that Dr. Quigley is missing! Could the monster she saw be Kane ?Okala? She'll have to team up with the Hardy Boys to find out!

Customer Reviews:

Why bother? No comparison to other Nancy Drew games.
I was very disappointed with this game I have all but "Danger By Design" and this one I could have done without. There were no real puzzles in this game. You mostly ran around completing tasks for people. I gave it two stars for: the new GPS map, the cell phone switch, and the scenery. But as for the actual game play I give it 1 star.
--2006-12-15

Sheer Boredom
I love the Nancy Drew games and was highly dissapointed with this one. This is definitely the worse game yet. The title sounds exciting, but the game is sheer boredom. The puzzles not only fail to challenge the player, but they are useless and boring. There is barely any mystery-solving in this game. It is mostly comprised of needless and mundane tasks that others are telling Nancy or Frank Hardy to do. Most of these mundane tasks include looking at plant smaples under a microscope, fishing, and making necklaces. Come on HER Interactive, where is the action? the mystery? the intrigue? Let's hope the next one is up to par with the previous Nanvy Drew games.

On a positive note, the graphics were pretty good, but that is it.
--2006-12-15

It's a dud.
My jaw dropped when I realized I was done with this game, it went so fast. There weren't nearly as many clues to find as some of the other games, and of the games that were set up within the mystery, most were not relevant to solving the case! This game is a let down in comparison to other Nancy Drew games.
--2006-12-12

Pretty good
I liked this game a lot. It was neat because I'm from Hawaii so it was kinda cool. The only reason I'm giving it 4 stars and not 5 is because the game isn't completely clear on what you need to do at times. There were times that I found it more interesting to play Joe Hardy on the beach rather than not know what to do with Nancy. The tasks that Quigly gives Nancy aren't very clear. She doesn't give her very good directions, so you might need to find a walkthrough for those parts.

I liked the new graphics and the new features. Having Frank and Joe Hardy was a good addition. The graphics were wonderful. It was also an interesting plot. Overall this is a good game, my only complaint is that it's not very clear at times of what you're supposed to do.
--2006-12-11

Disappointing
Warning -- some spoilers at the bottom:
We have and have played all of the Nancy Drew games. This one seemed unfinished somehow. There were several clues that were never explained -- the phone number in the locker, for one. The educational aspect of this game was practically nill -- Thy have a game where you have to pay to learn about Hawaii, but only one section is necessary to play the game -- in fact, other than that one section, none of the extra games you play at Big Mikes were required to win the game. I also do not appreciate games where you are very likely to die several times and have to use second chance to win the game. I also really do not like the scuba diving (requiring holding breath) scenarios that they've added lately. I don't mind time limits, but the breath meter can be used up faster than it should if your computer is running slow or you have another program running in the background.

Spoilers:
In summation, they don't even mention if Joe recovered from being clobbered over the head or not!!

And what was Pua doing, directing us to, and giving the map for the secret cave if she was the one causing the problems in the first place??
--2006-12-01

- Her Interactive