Nightmare Ned

Description:

Nightmare Ned is an adventure game that both surprised and enlightened me. The program starts off with a little story before entering the game. The game begins with a ten-year-old boy named Ned, in bed. Since Ned has an overactive imagination, he thinks the shadows on the wall are monsters and during his sleep you enter the nightmare adventure. The game starts in the quilt on Ned's bed and there are five worlds in which you can enter. You must conquer all of them in an eight-hour period while Ned is asleep. There is no mouse used during this game; you move Ned by using the arrow keys, and by other specified keys you will gain additional abilities.

The game has a save feature, which you will need for it will take a while to complete. You will have to combat creatures and solve mind-boggling puzzles to advance, there are also secret passages. With a yo-yo for a weapon, you will combat each creature three times to reveal its true identity. There is also a help button; but every time you use it you lose an hour, so use it sparingly. You can still finish the game if you run out of time but you won't see the real ending. So start the adventure again, but remember it changes each time you play. This game will have a long life span for anyone that uses it because you will need a lot of patience to figure everything out. So if you like adventures and remember it was developed by Disney, here is a game for you.

Features:

• Adventure!
• A Yo-Yo for a weapon
• Lots of grossness kids will love!

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Report and Conclusions:

The lower end of the age range is in my opinion a little optimistic, 8-up would be more like it. There wasn't anything gruesome or too disgusting but I would recommend the parents to check it out first before letting their young children play. Although the game explains all the shadows and sounds and turns fear into fun, some young children who frighten easily may have to wait until they are older, especially if they already have a fear of ghosts and strange noises in the night.