Nancy Drew, Kleptomaniac

For girls who are not afraid to spend several addicting hours with a mouse.                                                                       (Anne) 

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games in order: the creature of kapu cave (2006)

[nancydrewgamesofficial]

Twenty years later and #DangerByDesign is still serving drama and mystery ✨🇫🇷 To celebrate the game's 20th anniversary, we rounded up a few of our favorite fashion icons and imagined them in Nancy's Parisian adventure! 🇫🇷💙

[incorrectnancydrewquotes]

Nancy: Let's go steal the keys to Prague’s crown jewels! Zane: Isn't that treason? Nancy: We'll give them back.

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games in order: danger by design (2006)

[hrjafael]

If you could add one F-bomb in a game, which game would it be and where?

Treat it as the game is rated PG-13 and you only get one use.

Miles in Haunted Carousel: “Joy Trent is a fucking party-pooping stick in the mud.”

[doyoudrew]

"Drew! I don't think you fucking understand what jail means!"

[kleptonancydrew]

Mel: you just climbed out of my fucking closet!

[trubbishrubbish]

Wait. I want to talk about how much I love the Nancy Drew games and how they are a comfort series for me. (I can’t remember if I ever talked about the series on my blog.)

I was introduced to it by my sister playing them. We were both young and I watched her play a few games, like Secret of the Old Clock. I remember being quite scared whenever my sister went through the secret passage ways of the Lilac Inn and having a hard time on the Sewing mini game. I think she also played Danger on Deception Island, Secret of Shadow Ranch and the Creature of Kapu Cave. I really like DoD, the mystery of a orca in a gloomy coastal town isn’t as interesting as other mysteries that involve ghosts, conspiracies and murderers, but i really like it for the vibes, the funny fish politics and the fact that I can play it without being scared! (Yeah, this is my comfort series but I get very easily scared by it ha ha)

OH. I almost forgot about Ransom of the Seven Ships. That’s one I believe my sister played. That one I like too. That was all years ago. Nowadays, I can but Nancy Drew games off steam (and using a mod to fix the aspect ratio for the older games) and relive my childhood. Unfortunately, I’m still a coward so I haven’t even played all the games yet, especially the scary ones. One of my favorite game is The Final Scene. I love the old theater environment, the intense 3 day time limit before the demolition and the fact that Nancy is in 11/10 mode with trying to save her friend Maya who’s trapped in the theater. She’s more aggressive in this game and doesn’t have the patience for other people who keep her from saving her friend, it’s great.

Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake is another fun game. I like exploring the forest of moon lake. It’s scary but I was brave enough to beat the whole game and I even live streamed it with a friend on discord, that was fun. I wish I could stream more Nancy Drew with friends because sharing these weird games with people is fun.

This was a just a ramble so I’ll say one more interesting fact about these games. There’s a character in one of these games that is a younger version of my mom. Like it’s uncanny in how she looks like mom when she was in her 20s-30s.

[natalyakayak]

Nancy Drew: Stay Tuned for Danger (1999)

[hannah-in-drewland]

In Stay Tuned for Danger, there is a locked drawer in the desk in Mattie’s apartment, but it cannot be opened with any key found in the game environment. The key intended to open the drawer (which would later be reused in MHM as Nancy’s suitcase key) would have been located in  Mattie’s dressing room. The unlocked drawer contains letters written by Mattie pretending to be a fan of Rick. She (as the fan) begs him not to leave LOOL. Finding these letters would place suspicion on Mattie, triggering this conversation:

(Courtesy of the Cutting Room Floor: https://tcrf.net/Nancy_Drew:_Stay_Tuned_For_Danger/Unused_Audio/In_the_Studio)

Mattie:  Hi Nancy! We need to talk. I found out you took my keys to get into my desk. How could you? I know you need to investigate and everything, but, I thought we were friends. I thought you could trust me.

Nancy:  Oh Mattie, I’m sorry. But I had to find out what was in those letters you’ve been sending to Rick. And why so many. /  Sorry Mattie, it’s important that I follow all of my leads, even this one.

Mattie: I understand that. I just thought you could’ve been a bit more considerate. I guess those letters did look pretty mysterious if you didn’t know what was in them. And to tell you the truth, I guess they look pretty silly now that you’ve read them. But I’ll miss Rick terribly if he leaves the show. Hrm. To tell you the truth, I’m still in love with him. But, I need to realize that we’re through, and move one. 

Nancy:  I’m glad that your secret isn’t as sinister as I thought it may have been.

The key was was never added to the final version of the game, which might have been due to issues with space. However, the key is still in the game files and can be added to the inventory by accessing the developer’s menu. The conversation with Mattie is not available, but Nancy can still unlock the drawer and read the letters. I’m too afraid of inciting HER’s wrath by showing how to access the developer’s menu, but it is a pretty open secret on the internet and a quick google search will allow you to find it ;)

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games in order: secret of the old clock (2005)

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games in order: last train to blue moon canyon (2005)

[4okra]

shadow at the water’s edge

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games in order: danger on deception island (2003)

[unclewarwick]

Nancy Drew DVD covers

[magpie-marvin]

I NEEED them to make another nancy drew game. Are you kidding me Penny Milliken

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games in order: curse of blackmoor manor (2004)

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games in order: ghost dogs of moon lake (2002)

[turbosocks-wifi]

Being a Ned Nickerson enjoyer in the Nancy Drew fandom truly be rough. Like yeah my boy is a little bit of a stale cracker, but you neglect his important role in the story as just "the guy".

where every other mystery story has a single woman character and she fulfills the role of "the girl".

Theres Ned. It's him, the gender role breaker, "The Guy". Leave my mans alone, i need Nancy and her friends competent, and any time i see Ned not present i must suffer with the women becoming less competent from the writers and I WILL NOT HAVE IT. LET MY MAN BE A LITTLE DAMSEL IN DISTRESS, JUST A LITTLE GUY. HE LOVES HIS COMPETENT MYSTERY SOLVING GIRLFRIEND.