Nancy Drew: The Final Scene

The Final Scene was the seventh game from HeR Interactive and the fifth game in the Nancy Drew Adventure game series. Considered to be one of the fan favorites, this is the first game to revolve around a kidnapping.

Game Description

Search a Darkened Movie Theater to Free a Hostage from her Captor’s Dangerous Plot!
When a high school friend gets kidnapped in a historic theater, you, as Nancy Drew, are plunged into a desperate race against the clock. With the theater being torn down in just three days, can Nancy outwit the kidnapper and rescue her friend before the wrecking ball flies? Or will this be Maya’s final scene?

Game Information

Available on: Windows 98/ME/2000 Professional/XP/Vista/7/8/10
ESRB: E for Everyone
PC Release Date: November 1, 2001
Release MSRP: $24.95 USD
Current MSRP: $9.99 USD
Number of Discs: 1
Game Abbreviation: FIN
Game Color Code: AB1319
Inspired by/Based on: The Nancy Drew Files #38: The Final Scene

Game Specs

PC System Requirements:

166 MHz or greater Pentium or equivalent class CPU
16 MB of RAM
150MB or more of hard drive space
16-bit DirectX 7.0 compatible graphics video card
16-bit DirectX 7.0 compatible sound card
8x CD-ROM drive
Mouse and Speakers

Fun Facts:

The creative director at HeR Interactive at the time, Max Holechek, voiced Nick Falcone after having searched through a number of actors to potentially play the character. They had even recorded lines for Nick with another actor and as they were putting the game together, they felt that the voice just didn't fit the character. HeR had to scramble to re-record the lines for the character.
This was the final game to use the original logo for ‘Nancy Drew’ on the box art, and the original design layout of the box art. The logo was intended to be used on Secret of the Scarlet Hand, but was changed at the last second to a new logo of the series. The original logo can still be seen when booting up Secret of the Scarlet Hand, but that's the only place it's still associated with the game.
This was the second of two games released in 2001.
The voice actress who played Maya was the wife of one past artist John Hayashi and asked that her name be left out of the credits in the game.
Simone Mueller comes up with the name ‘Samantha Quick’ as a stage name for Nancy. ‘Samantha Quick’ returns later on in the series multiple times.
The boxed releases of the game from Dreamcatcher all contained a first edition copy of Nancy Drew #162: The Case of the Lost Song. When you bought the game from HeR Interactive later on, they shipped the game in a DVD case which was too thin to allow space for the copy of the book.
In the secret passage from the men's dressing room to the women's dressing room, there's some graffiti on the wall that reads 'Snake wuz here'. 'Snake' was the original name for Sonny Joon before they changed it in Secret of the Scarlet Hand. It was also just an Easter egg that one of the developers put in, but they decided to run with it instead.

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Characters

Brady Armstrong

The star of the show and the last person Maya would have seen before her disappearance. Is Brady worried that his show might not go on after the theater has been demolished?

Joseph Hughes

He has spent an entire lifetime in the theater and is currently its manager. Joseph loves the theater and would do anything to save it, including kidnapping a journalist to stop the planned demolition?

Nick Falcone

Nick’s lifeline might not be tied to the theater, but he’s part of a zealous historical preservation group that uses unorthodox tactics. Would kidnapping Maya be a means to his end?

Simone Mueller

Simone, a Hollywood agent, thinks Maya’s kidnapping is a great opportunity to drum up more press. Could she have set-up the kidnapping as a publicity stunt for Brady?

Maya Nguyen

Maya's goal was to interview Brady Armstrong for her school magazine. Before she could ask her first question, a kidnapper took her hostage! Will Nancy find her before the time runs out?