Bought this for my 9 yr old daughter and she struggles with it she said it's frustrating and hard to find objects asked for ... I tried it and I can understand why she doesn't like it , I found more items then she did but it literally had my nerves shot ! Hard to navigate through the game and I often went back to rooms I already searched.... not for us at all .. I'll give it to one of her friends who may like it ....

This game is sooooooo short I finished it in like 5 min. I would not recomend this to customers it's sort of hard to get around the whole mansion. I'm a big Nancy Drew fan but whoever designed the game did it very poorly. The PC games are wayyy better I'd say you'd probably like the PC games better than this game. Try the other Nancy Drew DS games they probably are better. I think this game is a waste of money and time. I sound kind of harsh but it's true, this game is not worth your time. For a game that would be better is mystery case files millionheir, it's like the hidden staircase but a lot better, you have to find objects all over the place. Well sorry to all the people that wanted to buy Nancy Drew: The hidden Staircase, but it's not a good game to buy so dont buy it! That's just my opinion though, ASK AROUND!!!!!!

I never thought I would get a game that I could complete in a day 'till I got this game. At first I couldn't wait to get farther to find out who did it. However when I did, which was less than a day, I never picked it back up again. All you do is look for stuff that has been stolen. You don't even look for clues. WHAT KIND OF MYSTERY IS THAT?! If you get this game, you will regret it, like I do. I wish I never even picked up this game. All it did was waste the money that I had to get a new game. Now the money that I got is in the trash. Then the storyline is totally weird. Then the sounds get ANNOYING. Like when you go over a bed that looks like someone has layed on it, it makes this ghost sound. However, after a while, you want to turn down the volume, ALL THE WAY! Then the setting never changes, so you have to look in the same rooms over and over and over again. Don't waste your money.

I'm a fan of the ND pc games and the other two DS games have been all right. I thought with a new developer (THQ), it would have been pretty interesting and different however, the game was incredibly bad. I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone and please, anyone reading this, DO NOT WASTE *edit* BUCKS ON THIS, IT WASN'T WORTH IT AT ALL. The only good part of the game were the graphics, which were actually not bad. However, it goes all downhill from there. The controls are annoying and its kind of hard to get around. Even more annoying is the gameplay. Throughout the game all you do is find missing items which isn't challenging at all. It took about 20 minutes to beat and there was no challenge at all. PLEASE save yourself the regret and avoid this game at all costs.