#nd33

[netscapenavigator-official]

There being a five year gap in between ND33 and ND34 is really confusing to me. I get that money is tight for HeR Interactive, and their CEO clearly cares more about turning the company into a profitable business rather than a crowd/user-funded indie dev studio... but like... where did those fives years go, exactly?

A lot of the assets used in ND34 were reused from ND33. Like all of the ambient NPCs in KEY being models of Frank, Joe, Lauren, Mei, the Judge, etc. wearing different clothes. The visuals were... a minor improvement, but five years of improvement? I don't think so.

The controls weren't exactly smooth. The P&C System was extremely finicky, and the Freeroam mode was typical Unity gliding around bullshit. The puzzles, out the gate, gained a reputation in the community for being improperly balanced and extremely difficult.

I know spitting out 2 games per year isn't sustainable (and even wasn't back in HeR's prime)... but five years for Nancy Drew: Mystery of the Seven Keys... What the fuck did HeR Interactive spend that time doing, exactly?????

[likealayka]

Kudos to her interactive for making Salem and the upcoming game so fucking... Uncosy, ugh.

All of the spaces look obnoxiously big (because they need to have "good" camera angles at all times or people will in fact combust), people are full on unnaturally existing dolls and it's just so, so uncomfy - there is no clutter around that feels natural, nothing seems to be lived in, nothing makes the player think about how they'd like to be there, not even speaking of any kind of overall immersion in the game.

Replaying Sea Of Darkness full on made me cry a few weeks ago; I got so, so sad that the last crumbs of my childhood were gone :c

Proprietary engine upgrade my ass.

[magic-multicolored-miracle]

MID Thoughts #3: So the Hardy Boys show up because Nancy suddenly can’t handle a ghost on her own and freaks out? The fuck?

Is this a joke?

[bibliosauruswrecks]

These two look like they’re about to start a boy band in the early 2000s...

[discussingdrew]

Midnight In Salem

So I thought it was time to bring out another prediction to MID since it has been several months since we have heard anything.

Here we go.

Upon looking at the MID section in HeR Interactive's website it states: "Game Story Nancy Drew: Midnight In Salem - Coming Spring 2019" which leads me to speculate we will get the full low down of the game in May.

If we were getting the actual game, we would have another trailer and game footage by now, AND have pre-orders, AND have more hype and advertisements not just little dabbles of characters and oohs-and-ahhs of the Hardy Boys making a return. Excuse the overly grammatically incorrect use of a run-on sentence above. I'm just a little hype.

Another "clue" to this happening?

Jack-o-laterns. Fire. Witches. Halloween-ie feels throughout the entire ORIGINAL trailer. No one from HeR has stated they are actually pulling the game out of their ass for the speculated May/spring release.

So here's my spiel: MID will be released in the fall.

Point. Blank. Period.

[magic-multicolored-miracle]

MID thoughts #4: Is Deirdre giving genuine relationship advice?

Also it sounds like its meant to hint at the next game that we will all be inevitably disappointed by (unless they go back to some old practices) if it ever happens at all. If they try to drag us back in with promises of Ned visuals and then “deliver” with their bad Sims graphics, I’ll flip tables.

[bibliosauruswrecks]

Words cannot begin to express my complete apathy towards MID. The more I see and hear, the less excitement I feel. I’m actually starting to regret preordering.

HER, in case you weren’t sure, this is the opposite reaction you want for an upcoming game release. Someone who’s been a loyal customer since 2004 should not regret giving you more money. This is a problem.

I don’t know how else to say it.

This. Is. A. Problem.

[bibliosauruswrecks]

Ten bucks says this rendering isn’t final.