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ME NEXT:

-Shiny horse make bad things happen...

-Instant death over Veggies

Explain a Nancy Drew Game to me without telling me the title.

I’ll go first:

Toasted lettuce sandwiches

Parent Trap

Henry Bolet’s soulmate cello-ing on a forever loop

Spider monkey climbing up a tree after a squirrel

A bunch of reject A’s from Pretty Little Liars meets under tree at the witching hour

Gossip Girl here, your one and only source for the scandalous life of boarding school’s elite. XOXO

#I thought I could be clever #turns out I can't

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You ever just start a Nancy Drew game just cause you want the vibe. And then you don't even end up finishing the game, it's more about it keeping you warm for a moment. Like all the memories you have for each game. And when you start each one up again those memories come back to you like a warm blanket. That's the life.

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To celebrate finishing all my work for the semester I made another uQuiz. Answer some dumb questions and get a SECOND CHANCE.

#of course i got the boat explosion LMFAO

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What other generally accepted headcanons are there for the ND games? The big one that comes to mind is Charlotte finding out that Clara was a product of incest.

#THESE ARE SO COOL WTF

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im thinking about hilda from DDI…. im still so sad that she stopped talking to nancy like you both have each other’s phone numbers!!! and i feel like a woman who leaves notes in bottles and puzzles around is the perfect person to be a mentor for nancy

like why is this so sad

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So last time I re-played DDI I just got. No clam chowder. None. I never got offered any. And I listened to the podcast and everyone was talking about clam chowder and it made me realize how weird it was that I never got any. There was also talk of a cupcake you can only get once, only first time if you remember to ask. I have not seen or heard about this cupcake in the game.

I traced my clam chowder failure to saying something Kaitie-aligned to Jenna, which means if you ever imply you agree with Kaitie while talking to Jenna, she will not find you worthy of her delicious treats. The food is there to change your political alliance to Jenna.

And I am in for it, so this time playing, I made sure to never, ever pick a dialogue option that would favour Katie. To hell with her, I have clam chowder to gain. Sorry Katie your stinky mayonnaise will not do. So, after trashing Katie for a tiny little bit, what happened? Not only I had clam chowder, but also, unlimited cupcakes. Thats right, I could ask Jenna for a cupcake thru the entire game, for as many times I wanted to, and I got one each time. My playing experience was greatly amplified after selling my opinion for unlimited food.

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at least they admit it

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Why is my comfort game Legend of the Crystal Skull

#honestly the atmosphere of it is so cozy though #like no other game besides maybe ICe do it

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I’m replaying SAW and I want to emphasise how much I love the music in this game. Like HER could have gone the route of making that fake “oriental” music that gets used with this sort of setting a lot but instead we get tracks that sound convincingly like traditional shamisen music, with the dark twist of being terribly distorted, that just fits the game perfectly. Then you have the upbeat pop music on the subway and the expo centre which has a kind of generic video game-y sound to it that I absolutely associate with high Japanese consumer culture? And my absolute favourite, that grinding metallic track you hear when things get ghostly that is absolutely inspired by Ju-On and Ringu and has that industrial vibe that modern Japanese horror strikes. I love it

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as someone who just spent all summer being a camp counselor, I would kill to see a summer camp game where Nancy is a counselor

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Thanks for the tag!!!!

senior detective or junior detective | cooking minigames or arcade minigames | fox and geese or scopa | summer scenery or winter scenery | frank hardy or joe hardy | coucou or loulou | hidden basements or hidden attics | jump scares or spooky sounds | bess marvin or george fayne | horse shirt or mom jeans | older games or newer games | scary games or comfort games | hard puzzles or light puzzles | playing with friends or playing alone | quick save or second chance | ghosts or monsters | playing during the day or playing at night | hints or no hints | keeping notes or no notes

I don’t know who all has seen this but it has alot of notes so if you see this and you want to do it-DO IT! Consider this me tagging you <3

tag game: this or that

starting the @nancydrewnetwork‘s new tag game! 

copy/paste this and mark your preferred choice in each pair with bold:

senior detective or junior detective | cooking minigames or arcade minigames | fox and geese or scopa | summer scenery or winter scenery | frank hardy or joe hardy | coucou or loulou | hidden basements or hidden attics | jump scares or spooky sounds | bess marvin or george fayne | horse shirt or mom jeans | older games or newer games | scary games or comfort games | hard puzzles or light puzzles | playing with friends or playing alone | quick save or second chance | ghosts or monsters | playing during the day or playing at night | hints or no hints | keeping notes or no notes

i’m tagging: @mrshenrybolet, @papenniesandbentoboxes, @hotchkiss-and-tell, @ladylindaaa !! 

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Tag which one you wanna try the most

For, you know... science.

#either cudsmackers or udder pops

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Just finished The Shattered Medallion, one of the games I constantly give flack and for once today...that might end. Now I know that is shocking. This game has a reputation for being disliked for many reasons-most I agree with but this time around I actually had a fun time playing it.

I don’t know if it’s because I actually paid attention to what was being said by Sonny and Jamila this time around or what but I finally caught on to what the point of the game is-albeit it is silly and not on par with ANY previous games it was a more light hearted mystery. That isn’t awful per say but it isn’t as gritty as you would like it to be. I mean you could even say it really wasn’t a mystery just a treasure hunt in a sense.

But that in itself is kind of fun along with the whole competition aspect of the game. The only issue is I’m super competitive and it drove me up a wall how I would basically win but also NOT. I hate that so much. But once again I feel like this game was missing a lot. I felt like they were trying to do too much all at once and therefore the game feels like a cluster fuck. I would love another game about a competition show where the contestants seem to be being sabotaged and Nancy is brought on to figure out who is doing it and why.

I would’ve loved a game that is kind of like another archeology one but this time we’re searching for alien relics. But I didn’t necessarily like the two together. I also love the setting in this game.

I want to play all the ND games in order to be honest.

So I just finished Stay Tuned for Danger. I seriously love it just because there is a lot more sleuthing done by you rather than just fifty million puzzles (which I mean I do enjoy those as well).

Also sadly I won’t be able to do WAC or Old Clock because I can’t get Wineskin to work with them. If ya’ll got tips for that they are welcome!

#the shattered medallion #Nancy Drew #Nancy Drew Pc Games #HerInteractive #MED #review

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When you are so low on points in MED that the creators throw you a bone and leave a million 100 point cards around for you to find. 

#i suck at this omfg #Nancy Drew #Nancy Drew Pc Games #the shattered medallion #this is why i can never fully get all the awards

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Why am I just now realizing you can call George and Bess in MED????

#Shattered Medaliion #Nancy Drew #Nancy Drew Pc Games #WHAT THE FUCK AFNKDJK

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Just finished The Silent Spy. This is one of those games where I much prefer the game play, puzzles, location, and plot over the characters we meet-the only one that is tolerable for me was Moira. She didn’t talk around everything like every other character and it was nice for a game where no one talks to you straight.

The puzzles in this game are a bit more challenging and I like doing them but also the fucking bagpipes are too damn loud that my mom could hear them all the way downstairs from where I was upstairs in my room with the door closed. And I hated that Nancy asked the same questions about fifty different times to people who never gave a straight answer.

Also I like the entire vibe we get from this game but I kind of wish we got some Irish scenery or well more of it but the setting was stunning nonetheless-also the jam cookies are so much fucking fun to make, easily one of my more favorite cooking mini-games. Also like I said I really enjoy the plot of this game because we learn more about Nancy and her past and her family. It’s refreshing to also see Carson actually be like a real dad. 

I want to play all the ND games in order to be honest.

So I just finished Stay Tuned for Danger. I seriously love it just because there is a lot more sleuthing done by you rather than just fifty million puzzles (which I mean I do enjoy those as well).

Also sadly I won’t be able to do WAC or Old Clock because I can’t get Wineskin to work with them. If ya’ll got tips for that they are welcome!

#the silent spy #nancy drew #nancy drew pc games #review #SPY

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The main reason I started that long reblog chain for me reviewing each game I replayed in order was so I could eventually get to MID and review that-but I guess that can’t happen since my MAC is too old for it. 

So I’ll just use it to make a ranking of the games based on my current tastes. I already began writing some stuff down and fuck is it going to be a rough list to make.

#Nancy Drew #Nancy Drew Pc Games #HerInteractive