Greetings from Sunny River Heights

The Nancy Drew blog I sometimes forget about. Pro-Nedcy. Following via thereadingchronicles.

[nancy-be-careful]

so after the MID disappointment of 2019 I sort of disappeared from here. kind of curious where everything is at. has there been anything notable from HER? have we all just accepted the fates and moved on?

[nancy-be-careful]

Matthew McConaughey?? Is that you????

[nancy-be-careful]

I still firmly believe in this post

[nancy-be-careful]

2020 update: henrik looks like the poster boi for covid safety

[nancy-be-careful]

y’all, a fascinating Q&A with an ex-her interactive dev (2017). he worked on several of the more recent games, including SEA

[nancythedrew]

if this is the criteria that the Venice police use for suspect behavior then I too would be under investigation for a multitude of crimes

[nancy-be-careful]

Alicia: Judge Danforth will show you around.

Judge Danforth: Um... Right this way is the exit.

[nancy-be-careful]

So I finally watched a playthrough of MID... *sigh*. I think the thing that bothered me the most was that Frank, Joe, and Ned all had no personality except for being annoying and dramatic. Does anyone else feel this???

[gjsjtsjgd]

I am SCREAMING

Arglefumph's videos that are like,,, "Everything Wrong With [X]" and theyre normally 8-20 minutes long,,,, and then the one for MID is over an HOUR long

[incorrectnancydrewquotes]

Takae: We are in disagreement. You'll have to excuse me. *leaves*

Miwako: [to Nancy] I'm sorry you had to witness such a vicious fight.

Nancy: THAT was a vicious fight?

Miwako: Of course. She said, “You'll have to excuse me” instead of “Please excuse me.” She may as well have spit in my face.

[nancy-be-careful]

lol so can we just collect all the people that HER fired and make a new game series?

[comeherebob]

Can HeR honestly

just scrap this entire game and go back to the old ND game engine? I would happily wait 5 more years for that…

[starryberry]

Is this in the same house??

[to-drew-list]

the worst part is that it’s not even a nancy drew game anymore. it’s not what we grew up with, wanted, or asked for. it’s not dorky food prep or krolmeister tech or notes from sonny, it’s not jet packs or face tattoos or big island mike. it’s not fun, silly puzzles or nancy getting food poisoning or sand castles or immersion or getting really scared or sad or overjoyed for the characters. it’s no dry gulch, no deception island, no parisian catacomb. they threw all of what made nancy drew nancy drew away when they made this game, choosing a new engine over their lovely, illustrative, perfectly sufficient graphic style, and i’m just very very sad and disheartened if i’m being honest.

[naancypants]

I had a dream last night that for some reason my MID copy shipped early so I was one of the first to play it. I remember that it ran smoothly and the graphics actually looked amazing, but my biggest complaint was with the gameplay. In my dream it felt like you never got the chance to explore. Like you would talk to a character and get a lead, and Nancy would just automatically transport you to the next place you needed to go. And it was like this the whole time; just one linear string of events with no chance to really do things for yourself. Super limiting and annoying lol

Here’s hoping the actual game will have the same graphics/frame rate quality but better gameplay! ✌

[nancy-be-careful]

I had a dream the other night that the scenery graphics were amazing, the character graphics were suffering, but the gameplay was insanely good. ..... we’ll see....

[dagnydrew]

New updates on MID!!

[naancypants]

Okay I actually kinda like Joe’s design. Aside from the fact that it’s another ugly clayified render, obvs.

[nancy-be-careful]

I'm starting to get nervous since ALL of the "not final" characters are super poorly rendered...

[dagnydrew]

What do y’all think about the official cover art for mid?

I’m gonna be honest: I hate it. It’s so lackluster. They just took their logo and expanded it and added very few other details?? I was hoping for something more like GTH because I loved that cover art. Or SEA was amazing as well. To be honest almost all of the cover arts for the past games have been stellar and this was is just so disappointing. I expect more from a company who has supposedly been working on this for 5 years and has produced beautiful art in the past. 

[snack-shop-boss]

Honestly thought this was a joke fan art at first. Wow. My heart literally dropped.

[dagnydrew]

there’s clearly an issue here. I’ve seen better fan covers for mid than Her’s. Much Better.

[detectivecatsuitdrew]

I’m glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t like it. And my first thought was that this fanmade cover

was far superior to the actual one.

(also I don’t know who made this fanmade cover, does anyone know? Props to them they made an amazing cover! Wish the geniuses at her could’ve come up with something as good 😒)

[nancydrew-onthecase]

OH wow. I’m hoping that the effort they did NOT put into this cover art was put into the game itself 😬

[nancy-be-careful]

I feel like it's lacking any actual art or illustration, it's just like a screenshot with a vector graphic and a photo stitched together with some words on top...

[flamboyantlybiboy2]

I want a game where you call Frank and Joe only to find out that Ned was hanging with them while Nancy was gone and they stumbled on a mystery like she does so the two are just dragging Ned along.

Nancy: I can’t hear you. You’re breaking up.

Ned: Frank found a cave.

~~

Ned: *calls Nancy* Joe wants to ask you about identifying wood types.

~~

Nancy: You sound out of breath.

Ned: That was a…really long tunnel…they move faster than you’d think…

~~

Nancy: What do you mean a suspect hit Ned on the head?

Frank: Don’t worry. We’ve got an ice pack on the bump and he’s not showing any signs of a concussion.