#HerInteractive

[hrjafael]

Can you imagine if Nancy wrote a recipe book with those long stories on how the recipe came to be?? Except to get to the recipe she just gives a rundown of the case she was working on that the recipe came from?

“In summary, the house was probably haunted or a lot of carbon monoxide was in the air. Anyways, here’s a recipe for the best Southern sweet tea you’ve ever had.”

Or:

“I was on a murder case in Florida when I had the best burger of my life. The body had been thrown down the stairs just like how the tomato was thrown on the beef patty.”

That would be unhinged.

[mxgicdave]

nancy drew and the extended clue crew....had a very fun time actually drawing my designs for everyone 🔎💘

[hyperfix-8-ion]

Tex and Mary starring in American Gothic <3

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[prettymuchpotter]

there should be more homosexuality in nancy drew. sure we have whatever the fuck rose and abby got going on, and we have dagny, but we need more. give nancy a girlfriend. give frank a boyfriend. fuck it, i dont care, theyre all gay to me

[mrsdylancarter]

Has this been done

[thenonbinarydetective]

Even Nancy Drew books understand color theory for the superior interior design choices for hospitals

[naancypants]

while we're all playing KEY on may 7, richard topham will be meeting with jim archer about the $$$

[that-one-fandom-girl]

She calls it this like it's a legitimate product 😂. Where would you even GET Spicy Devil Villain Venom? xD

[okay-seeya-mr-egan]

forever obsessed with the fact that the clue crew just reblogs the same posts so i’ll be scrolling through my mutuals’ posts and it’s just the same meme about koko kringles 43 times in a row

[detectivecatsuitdrew]

I finally played through Mystery of the Seven Keys! Wanted to type out my initial thoughts and whatnot, spoilers below!

I managed to avoid spoilers for this game so I was able to go in completely blind. I tried to avoid reviews as well to try to come in with no expectations. Overall, I say it’s a decent game. Not my favorite, but definitely a massive improvement over MID.

In terms of gameplay and graphics, WOW. So so much better than MID. I really liked the environment and getting to roam around. Just like with MID, I did suffer some motion sickness at first, but it went away after a little bit. And I really appreciate that they offer the two different modes.

In terms of characters, it did kind of feel like a lot and I forgot about Oskar half of the time lol but again, better executed than MID. Love Patricie and Radek. I also hope we get to see Agent Zane again.

I think the balance between puzzles vs dialogue/character interaction in comparison to other games (like MID having way too much dialogue vs puzzles and RAN having way too many puzzles vs dialogue).

Speaking of puzzles, maybe it’s just me, but I thought a few of them were fairly difficult and not super intuitive. I really enjoyed the cyber block, puppet, and the alchemy puzzles. But like the puzzle to open the book in the cafe? Again, maybe it’s just me, but that did not make sense to me at all. I really struggled with the Zlaty safe puzzle too.

(I guess the captcha when trying to open the DEGAS file is a puzzle, and it wasn’t hard albeit a bit annoying, but that jumpscare GOT ME. I jumped lol)

In terms of mini games, I like the coffee making. It’s no snack shop boss but I enjoyed it more than Johnny cakes. It reminded me a lot of the tea remedy mini game in MID.

The story/plot was decent. If LIE and CUR had a baby, it would be KEY. Little splash of SPY in there too. I did figure Elka was behind the cyber portion of it pretty much immediately, especially when she took the laptop and Nancy’s phone to “wipe.” (Like come on Nancy you know better than that!!! Geez) and then doubled down on that suspicion when it’s revealed Elka lost her mom almost essentially the same way Nancy lost hers. I did feel it was a little too obvious, but I’m glad she wasn’t the sole culprit and I’m even more glad that the culprits had concrete motives that made sense. I was worried it was going to be Patricie or something 😂

I understand why they didn’t include more phone conversations, but I kind of missed them! Though tbh I know when I replay games, I don’t really call Nancy’s phone contacts all that much, so it’s not a huge deal for me.

I thought the final confrontation was pretty on par for a Nancy Drew game, but the final conclusion is lackluster. I miss the letter summaries with the photos/cut away to images to what’s happening. I think it’s more visually interesting/concise that way, but I do appreciate that the final conversation between Adela, Zane, Marek, and Radek is more diegetic/natural.

Idk if anybody else feels this way, but what is it with Ned??? Is it Nancy trying to be a better girlfriend??? Make her more relatable, fleshed out as a character? Idk It felt out of place to me. And I find it so odd that three consecutive games are hitting heavy on tension between them. In SEA, we have their anniversary drama, in MID there’s that weird jealousy of Frank Hardy/that random girl in the background of one of his phone calls, and now we have Nancy really emphasizing with him how much she misses him and whatnot. I swear, if HeR continues to make games, I really want Ned to make an appearance!!! I was really hoping he’d be in this one, but there was no place for him honestly so understandable.

Okay I think I’m done rambling. These are just some initial thoughts and I don’t really know anyone personally who cares about ND games, so figured I’d post here.

If you made it this far, thanks for reading~!

[lickieloo]

The actual outdoor clock in KEY suggests that the game takes place in May!

And Leo's calendar suggests it's around the 15th since we know he was supposed to leave for his conference! So mid-May game if anyone was wondering!

[hrjafael]

My new favorite just dropped

[mxgicdave]

last train doodles 🚂

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[prettymuchpotter]

nancy drew should be bitter. she should hate the world and everything she has experienced. she should hate the evil that stole her mother from her and came back for her years later. cases should bring her dread.

we see the sanitised, her interactive version of every case she gets. where things are hinted at rather than outright said. even with the softening of the blows, there are moments that just hurt. the palpable grief in the ryokan. the fear in niobe's voice when she speaks about thanos. elisabet's voice on magnus' house phone voicemail. the way alexei's voice goes quiet before he gets loud again, because anger is so much easier than opening up. nancy's voice as she begs for anyone to take maya's disappearance seriously.

nancy has seen the worst of society. she's had her life threatened. her friends have been kidnapped. she's been falsely arrested. and yet, despite everything, she takes new cases with a smile. with the attitude of "i'll solve this and come home". never with the fear of the case going cold, of the evil in the world catching up to her eventually. it seems that no matter how many times the world hurls horrible things at her, she picks herself up and continues on. for everything she has seen, she should be a hateful, bitter person. but she's not. she's warm and cheerful, and yeah, maybe a little socially inept, but i can't fault her for that. she hasn't lost herself to the cases that she constantly gets called away to.

[kleptonancydrew]

Alright, so my brother got me a new water bottle for Christmas and I put this sticker on it:

Today I am trying to teach a lecture/discussion class when the children decide to ask "what is on your water bottle and can you explain each in great detail". (They were not feeling a lesson on Friday - these are all senior val-cans, my eyes took quite the roll.)

My response was, "you know how people are obsessed with things and can talk about them forever - these are that for me, I could go into great detail about each and I am choosing not to".

I have actually assigned CRY as a French assignment for one of the kids in the class so some are at least aware of them. They were not a fan of having to do it in French though.