Jake caught her removing her mask on camera, and subsequently forced her to date him. Jake blackmailed Tanaka into doing his homework for the remainder of the semester, otherwise Jake would reveal the plagiarism to Hal's family.Ĭonnie Watson was struggling to get enough money for college tuition, so she decided to use her Judo expertise to compete secretly in a men's tournament (the prize money was significantly better than the women's tournament), which Connie easily won. He slowly became overwhelmed and buried in work, so he decided to plagiarize an English essay from a school library book, which Jake Rogers caught on camera. He knew that if he didn't get the scholarship, his family would send him back to Japan.
Hal Tanaka took on additional coursework in order to be approved for a scholarship. Throughout the game, Nancy discovers that Jake Rogers was blackmailing several of the other characters by videotaping their misdeeds: Eloise asks Nancy to investigate, so Nancy goes undercover as a new student and attempts to solve the mystery. A student named Jake Rogers is murdered at the local high school, where Eloise works as a librarian. Nancy Drew takes a semester off of school to stay with her Aunt Eloise in Florida.
Sales of the original Secrets Can Kill were discontinued on August 1, 2010. The game was loosely based on a book of the same name Secrets Can Kill (1986).Īn enhanced remake of the game, subtitled Remastered, was released on August 24, 2010. There were three levels of gameplay, Junior, Senior, and Master detective modes, each offering a different difficulty level of puzzles and hints, however none of these changes affected the actual plot of the game. The game is animated in 3D, but unlike later games, the characters are 2D. Players took on the first-person view of fictional amateur sleuth Nancy Drew and solved the mystery through interrogation of suspects, solving puzzles, and discovering clues.
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Secrets Can Kill is the first of many installments in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive.