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I liveblog and post random posts about the Nancy Drew games made by Herinteractive. Usually being overdramatic for comedic effect and not actually as upset with the games as I may seem.

[nancythedrew]

hi all I'm still alive and would like to report that I just finished the remastered version of the Dark Eye (1995) which is now available on Steam as Edgar Allen Poe's Interactive Horror: 1995 Edition and its giving me all the feels

Cause it's literally just a point and click narrative game there's no puzzles or real challenge to it you just float through three Poe poems playing once through as the victim and once as the murderer and it's so insane to me that in 1995 when the medium of PC games was barely emerging that someone decided to devote the time and money to create a game that is literally just story telling through the medium of PC first person point and click adventure game?

It's certainly not flawless but reading a bit about the company's story it feels so similar to HeR where it started as people wanting to make video games for art's sake and as a new medium and got some intial funding but there just wasn't enough there to make it profitable or scalable and ugh i kind of am now going to go on a quest to play every PC game from the 90s whose creators couldn't survive after the venture capital ran dry but until then made cool unique shit?

Is this not how art has always been? Rich people paying people to make art for the sake of art? And not that it was ever going to be financially lucrative but we just counted on rich people have money and wanting to spend money just beause art is good? and we just somewhere along the way stopped ??

anyway I'm not paying what they're asking for Mystery of the Seven Keys so I guess I am just the capitalist hoe

[nancythedrew]

btw everyone I am alive and well and still think of this fandom offten as some of our best memes live in my head constantly like everytime one of my cats tilts her head at me and seems very confused I immediately think of "woah. how she talking inside a box?" and it brings me joy both bc nancy drew but also bc I'm sure my cats believe I am just a sack of liquid in a skin casing and how am i making the verbalizations that I do

[nancythedrew]

honestly trying to give assignments and work that summer interns can do is making me feel like an NPC in a nancy drew game

like sure here's something you can assist with that has no hard deadline or purpose and it's going to take me longer to explain to you in extreme detail how I want it done than for me to just do it myself

[verballowfunctioner]

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I DON’T EVEN HAVE WORDS THERE IS A MINUTE AND A HALF OF NANCY JUST DOING THIS SHIT IN THE SOUND FILES OF THE FINAL SCENE MAKE YOUR OWN COMMENT OH MY GOD

[trademarknickersoncharm]

How

[enrico-tazza]

i can explain

[karenplaysnancydrew]

I would probably die of liver failure too if I had my own speakeasy.

[sassydrew]

Waldo Mathias’s real identity REVEALED

[vote4holt]

“whoa. how she talkin inside a box?“ 

[turkeynugg-deactivated20170523]

This is my favorite Clue Crew post ever. Sometimes I’m sitting in class and I think about it and I start laughing. 

[nancythedrew]

just bringing this one back for old time's sake

[naancydrew]

the cast of mystery of the seven keys

[nancythedrew]

oh they UGLY ugly

[nancythedrew]

you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

[nancythedrew]

Ok less salty thoughts there are definitely some promising things in the trailer. Some of the locations look really beautifully rendered, and there's some promising looking puzzles.

I still have no idea what the plot is and I think the character animations are not good.

Given what we know of MID and the degree of outsourcing necessary to make that one happen I can only assume the same is happening here which is what explains the wild inconsistencies in the quality of the renders. It's pretty disappointing to see a scene like this and know that HeR thought this was the "best" they could show out of the entire game:

[nancythedrew]

so many thoughts but why the hell would you drop the release date less than a month out?? Just seems like bad marketing and hype for something you've been doing teasing of for a year+?

honestly seems like they finally pieced it together from all the vendors they outsourced it to and are trying to release it so they can get some cash to stay afloat through June??

[nancythedrew]

AYO WHAT THE FUCK

[nancythedrew]

at this point it's just a race between how long it takes HeR to release a decent game and when those NDAs of former HeR employees finally expire

[nancythedrew]

ayo why does this map in Fortnite on the shittiest graphics settings look like the kitchen in MID

[lachrymosestories]

I love howbin ghost of Thornton hall you can get murdered by a hallucination if you say a rhyme wrong