Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion GBA

This port of Message in a Haunted Mansion meant that HeR Interactive would no longer be making games exclusively for the PC. They opened up their gates to a more mobile audience.

Available on: Nintendo Game Boy Advance
ESRB: E for Everyone
Release Date: November 13, 2001
Release MSRP: $39.99 USD
Current MSRP: N/A
Number of Cartridges: 1
Game Abbreviation: MHM GBA
Inspired by/Based on: Nancy Drew Mystery Stories Digest Paperback #122: The Message in a Haunted Mansion

Game Description: Discover who — or what — is behind the mysterious accidents in a house full of secrets!
Nancy Drew is invited, by a friend, to San Francisco to assist in the renovation of a Victorian mansion. But there are other uninvited guests, visitors from the past–spirits who want the place all to themselves. Nancy suspects that there is another force at work: greed. In a house full of trap doors and secret tunnels, breaking glass and suspicious fires, one misstep and Nancy won’t stand a ghost of a chance in Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion!
Console Requirements: Nintendo Game Boy Advance

Fun Facts:

This was the first Nancy Drew game to be ported to another system/console: Game Boy Advance. It released a year after the PC version.
The graphical resolution was about 1/4 of the original resolution and there weren't any animated scenes.
The only constant game audio was an 8-bit version of the Message in a Haunted Mansion soundtrack. There were a couple other audio clips that played, but there was hardly anything aside from the music.
This game used a chapter system. Every time you completed a chapter, it would give you a sequence of buttons to press in order to load up the next chapter should you choose to close the game and return to it.
Almost all of the character lines and dialogue were cut, shortened, and/or slightly rewritten in order to fit a smaller game.
Nancy has a cell phone in this game instead of accessing the landline in the living room.

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Characters
Walkthrough
Soundtrack
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Characters

Abby Sideris

She met Rose Green in River Heights during a stint directing a school play and together they purchased the Victorian mansion. Abby has a fascination for the supernatural and believes the mansion is truly haunted. Is she trying to turn her beliefs into reality?

Charlie Murphy

Charlie is working on the house renovations and secretly lives in the mansion’s hidden room. Affable, adorable, endearing and sincerely nice, is Charlie causing the delay in renovations so it will extend his job and free-of-charge stay?

Louis Chandler

An antique dealer and Victorian era expert, Louis has agreed to consult with Rose on decoration in return for access to her library. However, he doesn’t seem to know as much as he says he does, so could he be causing the distractions?

Rose Green

A retired teacher who invested all of her savings into the Victorian mansion to convert it into a bed-and-breakfast. Is Rose starting to have second thoughts about the wisdom of her investments given the delayed schedule in renovating the house? Find out in this amazing adventure game!

Walkthrough

You can watch the full video walkthrough for Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion GBA on YouTube!

Episode 1 - The Seance

Episode 2 - DIEGO

Episode 3 - Secret Passages

Episode 4 - The End