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How old were you when you starting playing Nancy Drew games?
5 or younger
6-9
10-13
14-17
18-21
22-25
26-30
30+
But like… Imagine River Heights a few years before Nancy was even born.
Kate and Carson doing cute couple things that you can really only get away with in a picturesque small town, liking riding a tandem bike or having picnics on top of office buildings.
BFFs Antonia Scallari and Linda Petrov staring down anyone who even tries to talk to them because they don’t have time for anyone. They’re too busy listening to boy bands and blowing bubble gum.
Junior Detective McGinnis keeping his town safe, and considering growing a mustache. Toddler John Ryan watching McGinnis catch a thief and telling his moms he wants to be a detective when he grows up!
The Drews becoming close friends with the Marvins, and the four of them convincing the Faynes to move into a new house on their block.
Hannah Gruen and Rose Green working together at the high school. Hannah talks about how she’s considering looking into starting a housekeeping business, and Rose starts saving so she can one day start a hotel.
The Chisholms visiting all the way from Scotland to spend time with Kate and Carson, exploring the town, and even stopping into Alexei’s antique shop. This was during Alexei’s regretful long hair years.
Carson taking a chance and starting his own law firm, working closely with McGinnis to (as Kate put it) “put the bad guys away in a more legal and less dangerous manner”.
FREAKING RIVER HEIGHTS
Everyone watch this if you haven’t already- STAT!
It’s ✨fabulous✨
The entire intro to Scarlet Hand is so weird. The way Joanna's animated, the way she talks, Nancy's Maya 101 questions, all the lights being off but one, Joanna's weird joke about selling her grandmother... It's all so deeply strange.
I've said it before I think but I do still like how this is pretty much the only game that actually starts without the mystery. Like the mystery doesn't get going until like an hour in which some people say is a flaw but I like it because not only is that basically what happens in a lot of the books but it's also what would most likely happen in real life.
And it's just something DIFFERENT, y'know?
Here is Arglefumph’s video of all the hauntings in MHM.
How many did you get?
It's been decades. I was already in high school when it released. And TO THIS DAY this fucking game is the one and only that still frightens and unnerves me basically every second to the point where I'm actively terrified of sitting down to play it again
How to Trigger Spooky Events in Curse of Blackmoor Manor (SPOILERS!!!)
The last time I played CUR, I missed just about all of the spooky events I saw when I played as a kid. I decided to try to track down what triggers any “event” that takes place in Curse of Blackmoor Manor. In a new playthrough, I managed to find all the spooky events. One big difference was unlocking puzzles after the game gave you the clues (and not solving them by memory or intuition). Further details below. I hope this helps anyone in their own playthroughs whether they are playing for themselves or showing the game to a newcomer.
Nancy hears chanting after the first night. No puzzles needed.
Get the nightmare sequence by completing the 13-ghost-hunt on Alan’s computer and looking at all the portraits in the Great Hall)
To hear Linda cry, open the East Hall passageway and complete the parrot door. Walk by her room to hear sobs (I did actually go back and forth between the door and Loulou for each word)
To see meat by Linda’s bedside, I asked Linda about the passageway and eventually got kicked out after asking if I could get her anything. I opened the West Hall passageway (after getting the coat of arms from Nigel). I also saw that Nancy had to see Linda’s hand and call Paliki to follow up. I also had just come back from unlocking the forge. Whether Nancy has to unlock the forge or just be in another location is unknown (kind of like how to get food from Tommy, I order in Nancy’s room then go to the conservatory. When I go directly back to my room, the food is ready).
Nonetheless, I found that the biggest difference in my last gameplay (with few spooky events) and my latest (with a whole collection of events) was accessing the forge ASAP. I think it has to do with the letters in the forge (in one of the journals) having clues for how to solve the rest of the game. In my bad playthrough with few spooky scenes I completely forgot that notebook was there and skipped right past it.
Scratches on Nancy’s door: Go to sleep after getting the Moon key (opening the box in Nancy’s room, typing in zodiac)
Creepy Dark figure: go to sleep after solving for the lightning key.
Nothing happened after the arrow key. Nothing after finding the time/clock key. Nothing after unlocking the mercury wand.
With the water puzzle, open the food before moving any triangles. There is something at the bottom of the well. After opening well, Jane Penvellyn gets a threatening note.
Get the Crazy Frog dream by going to Jane’s room and clicking on the chattering teeth 10 times to get an Easter egg. Read through the Frog book in Nancy’s room. Solve the Frog puzzle with the filled up well and go to sleep.
Mrs. Drake leaves charm directly after one conversation line with Hugh Penvellyn, so always check if there’s something he needs to talk about
Obtain a threatening note after obtaining the 6 keys, opening the pipes (correctly), and going directly to Nancy’s room.
Hope this guide serves as a help. I replayed puzzles and dialogue pieces half a dozen times to figure out as specifically as possible what triggered the different spooky events. Other people may have found different strategies, but I am satisfied that I found all these events on one playthrough (though with loops until I found the right combination of events).
I do have to thank HAFanForever and Arglefumph for their work in displaying these scenes in their videos. They were great reminders of events, and I discovered new ones (the Frog Easter Egg Dream). I also want to thank Arglefumph for his “Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor - Easter Egg” video which showed how to get the crazy frog dream.
Is there something that triggers Ethel and/or Jane singing the ballad of Brigitte? I somehow once got through the entire game without hearing it a single time
December 8, 1902
Elizabeth Valdez writes a letter of recommendation for her former head chef Wing Tang.
"The Golden Gardenia
"December 8, 1902
"Mr. George Wollaston, General Manager
"The Victoria Hotel
"Powell and Clay Street
"San Francisco
"Dear Sir,
"This letter shall serve as an introduction for my faithful employee, Wing Tang, who has been employed in my service as head chef for over ten years. It is with ^much^ regret that I must discharge him, and were it not for the retirement of my hotel establishment, I would still retain his services.
"Sincerely,
"E. Valdez
"Proprietor, The Golden Gardenia"
This is my greatest accomplishment
Whoahh I have never seen this?
IT’S SO HARD OMG. Especially when you really need to talk to Red and/or have nothing left to do
What the heck? How did you do this?
From what I remember you go back and forth across the lake a shit ton of times
I made all the Nancy Drew Games characters in Tiny Tower
I will keep you all updated on the inner workings of their daily lives together.
Anyone else obsessed with how the gondola rides in Phantom of Venice are just a powerpoint slideshow
I legit did not know they had scenery for YEARS because I always took the non singing ones to save money
I love how SSH opens with Nancy writing to her dad in Ouagadougou
And then Michael comments like geez Nancy learn to email
Because ofc if any place was ever known for reliable internet access it was fricking Burkina Faso in 2003
i still believe im one of the only active people in the Nancy Drew games fandom, i am on the FRONT LINES over here and its an empty battlefield. the sky is clear, its a bright sunny day and i am fighting for my LIFE
I'm alive
I'm just madly avoiding KEY spoilers because I still haven't gotten to play it yet
So we're playing through Ghost of Thornton hall and we encounter this really weird bug
So normally to end the first day you crawl under the porch and hear Colton on a call with Lexi and then as you're crawling back out you pass out and wake up by your sleeping bag and then automatically call Bess and Ned
THIS TIME however we passed out when crawling back out from under the porch but when we woke up Nancy was just standing staring at the door to Charlotte's room and doesn't automatically call Bess and Ned
And so something must not have worked right to mark that's we're on the second day because every time we crawl out from under the porch we are magically teleported to staring silently at the door to Charlotte's room
EVEY SINGLE TIME
It seems like we're gonna be able to finish the game still but it's really weird and I haven't heared of this happening to anyone else
We've found the copy that's possessed by Charlotte's actual ghost
Pharaoh (1937), dir. Z.B. Collingwood
“I asked ChatGPT—” well I asked the her interactive message boards and promptly got banned by catsandbooks
i'm really such a big fan of how the nancy drew and hardy boys ghostwriters were apparently required to end as many chapters on a cliff hanger as possible, because that just means you get shit like "nancy gasped as something flew towards her head!" and then you turn the page and it says "the piece of paper that was floating through the air hit her gently in the face"
Sometimes book cliffhangers get so ridiculous I swear it starts approaching the level of 'he didn't get out of the cockadoodie car!'
What is your favorite location in Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake?
Sally's house
The shed
The woods
The cemetery
The speakeasy
The hidden passageways leading to the dogs
The basement
The ranger's station
Em's Emporium
@suki-tate you are absolutely right, there is nothing like gazing out on the open water