#and some serious bitching about her interactive attempt at a love triangle subplot

[elizabethmarvin]

finished mid

i feel empty inside 

opinions and mild spoilers below

- gonna go for it and say I wasn’t HORRIFIED with it. graphics and game engine definitely sucked, I agree with many other people that if the art and engine were like SEA it might have been one of the better games. 

- the lack of puzzles was frustrating and the fact that so many of the puzzle were just...dumb? I guess? (I’m talking about that stupid frequency thing in the cemetery). 

- also I couldn’t click on ANYTHING. in previous games, Nancy would interact with anything near her. she’d just shove butter in her pockets for no reason. I missed that silly, confusing behavior so much in MID. so as a video game, it wasn’t bad. but as a Nancy Drew game (which I doubt we’ll ever get a true Nancy Drew game again) it was mega disappointing. 

- still loved the plot and characters though. There were also more choices in revealing information and making accusations (once again: knock off Life is Strange) and I enjoyed that.

- also she’s GOING ON VACATION WITH NED? the writers just latched onto this fandom’s obsession with Nancy’s love life and toyed with us. it was cheap and shallow tbh, the drama added nothing to the game and at the end the drama wasn’t even resolved and at least intensified in some way. they just made Ned look unfaithful, him and Nancy need to have a “talk” (never happened), Ned insecure about Frank, and Frank a gd bumbling awkward fool. I’m so mad. they could’ve just left it out, we would've used our imaginations. all we needed was them to say Frank and Nancy were in the same town and Ned wasn’t. we would’ve wrote the accompanying fanfictions ourselves. I might be team “her interactive is not allowed to create a love triangle because they can’t fucking handle it right” from here on out.

I guess I’m angrier about that last point than I realized. anyways.