#Midnight in Salem Spoilers

[karenplaysnancydrew]

#midnight in salem #spoilers #ya im coming back randomly just to post this #to anyone who isnt a crazy ex girlfriend fan....well idk what to tell you

[netscapenavigator-official]

I’m trying not to be a negative Nancy (pun intended) about Mystery of the Seven Keys. I feel like I’m still early in the game, so I’m reserving myself until I finish it to conclude my opinion. Mostly because MID started off rocky too, but I ended up not hating it by the end.

I was also on the optimist side, and unlike a lot of the longer time fans, I actually somewhat enjoyed Midnight in Salem, with it placing in the middle of my ranking spreadsheet. So with all that being said, I’m gonna give my initial impressions of the game in the form of a compliment:

It takes real talent, effort, and skill to create a game with a worse point-and-click system than both 2019’s Midnight in Salem and 1998’s Secrets Can Kill…

#rambles #rant #initial impressions #Nancy drew #dn #mystery of the seven keys #nancy Drew mystery of the seven keys #nancy drew games #nancy drew pc games #Nancy Drew midnight in Salem #Midnight in Salem #nancy Drew secrets can kill #secrets can kill #Nancy Drew spoilers #nd key spoilers #Mystery of the Seven Keys spoilers #nancy Drew midnight of the seven keys spoilers

[buboloboogie]

I turned Void, Pepper, and Pickles into Kindred !! :D

HURAYYY THEY'RE ALL KINDRED!!

Essentially in this AU, the PCs are swapped with their companions! Their story lines are similar, pepper and pickles are still twins / daughters of the queen, and Void is a secluded lone wolf trying to find something. HERE ARE THEIR BLERBS BECAUSE I'VE PUT TOO MUCH EFFORT INTO IT vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

Miss Void Bennett. Generally, Void's backstory is the same as Arthur's. BUT!! Because we know basically nothing about Void, where she came from, how long she's been with Arthur, etc. My concept for her is that she has lost almost all of her memories of her human life, and the first few days after her embrace. All she remembers is Vanya's face, and having this feeling of deep rage and heartbreak. She sets out to the Americas after the war, where she meets Mary Davis and Edward. There, she gets help recovering only some of her memories, though only the memories of the beast. Whenever she'd frenzy, kill mortals, and most unfortunately ripping what she knows to be her family to death. After this discovery is when she starts out on her journey to find Vanya. She tells herself its to find out more about her missing memories, but deep down she is motivated completely by revenge. Void is a shy and tentative person at first, though as she gets comfortable she is bright and bubbly. She is very motherly to the few people she does care about, but it is very difficult for her to create that sort of trust in any sort of relationship. She tries to keep most people at an arms length, but there are a few who sneak through the cracks. Triva!: (SPOILERS AHEAD!!!) - Instead of a book with names, she sketches down every face she remembers tearing apart. - At the midnight circle, her form becomes more of a crazy old were-cat lady - Her tenabris form takes the shape of a writhing cat, with piercing red eyes. - She has Celerity dots instead of Fortitude dots - Her guilt manifests as a need to 'make up for it' by helping kindred and mortals worse off than her, another reason she mothers and guides the two Princesses. - Akin to Arthur, she feels as if taking care of the two twins is how she will atone, but she also will get flashes of warm memories of her younger twin siblings during calm and quiet moments. - When she diablorizes the winged kindred in the Cullen Games, her wings are those of a bat, but the arm bones are covered with a matted black fur. She also has retractable claws on the tips of the bat wing fingers.

Pepper Tucker. Pepper is a Vet tech who lives with her deadbeat father, who's failing car repair shop gets by on her paychecks. In her free time, she's helping The Demons strategize their next move against the Fangs, or smoking delirious amounts of pot ( The only strain she smokes is one called 'Cat Nip' ). Some say she has nine lines, for how many times she's almost knocked on deaths door. She her personality is indifferent. She seems tired, and like her head is somewhere up in the clouds. But even with this, she is someone almost paranoid of her surroundings. She is blunt, with no filter, and is not afraid to rip your ego to shreds without even raising an eyebrow. Pepper is always around - its a little weird honestly - and she is always willing to offer a helping hand to those she cares about. Trivia!: (SPOILERS AHEAD!!!) - Because Slimecicle references Pepper as a boy, and as Salem, while Condi references Pepper as a girl; She is MTF, Salem is her deadname while Pepper is her chosen name. - She is a Gangrel rather than a Brujah - She is a cat therian - Pepper seems to be unnaturally good at anything on the first try. It is kind of annoying - Her interactions with the twins are more Vex: NUH UH Pepper: uh huh Vex: NUH UH!!! Pepper: Uh huh Vex: NUH UUUHH!! Pepper: Stupidsayswhat? Vex: What? Viv: Brother I believe that she fucking got yo- Vex: CURSE YOU SHAMIASHAMAIII!!!! Pepper: lol - She has dots in Potence rather than Protean - She is a very dirty fighter, nut shots, pocket sand, its the only way she knows how to fight. - She nursed a near-death Fisher (type of wild weasel) back to health when she was little, and keeps him around as a pet. She names the Fisher Emezil, and he is the source of her 9 lives. - Instead of Adam Sandler movies, she is locked in her little pool of blood for hours watching Nick Cage movies. - Her battles with Gabriel (who is a coyote themed Gangrel) are the only time where she really raises her voice. I like to think instead of gay jokes, she is always twisting Gabriel's jokes into transphobic remarks, which he stumbles over his words and they go into a fuck you back and forth

Princess Pullette (Pickles) Bathroy Princess Pullette is a ball of energy that cannot be contained. Being cooped up inside the castle all her life, she has become a prank master. Playing silly pranks on the important vampires, and getting a slap on the wrist from her uncle each time, she is inching to get the hell OUT. Then one day, when loosing guards chasing her from putting a fake snake toy in the washroom, she comes across some papers that seems to be documentation of one "No Breaks Car Repair" shop in LA. After getting the iron fist from her mother, getting grounded indefinitely to the room she's been stuck in since... forever. Seething with rage, she dominates a few guards to escort her to the dark door, where she leaves the castle for the first time and spawns in at "No Breaks Car Repair." The Princess of the Ventrue clan gets her name Pickles from Pepper in their first interaction; Pep: Soo.. whats you're name supposed to be? Pick: Princess p-..... what do you think it is..? >:3c Pep: uhh.... idk Princess Pickles? Pick: It's Pickles now >:3c Pickles is the extrovert of an extrovert. She lives the thrill of adrenaline, doing whatever she deems is fun or funny in the moment. She is a yapper, most DEFINITELY doesn't know how to control her volume, and has the ability to talk about absolutely nothing for hours on end. She is ditsy and definitely does not think of the people around her, or what their opinion of her might be, at first. She truly is a caring person, who at the end of the day wants to do what's right, and make her mother proud. Trivia!: (SPOILERS!!) - Pickles still has the same flaws as Shilo, ex. Needing blood to be fed to her, needing to wear 'traditional vampire attire', and believing in the old folk lore - When the twins talk to uncle lazy in the old folk's home bathroom, Pickles is given Shilo, in which rains her in a bit because she thinks the bird is broken because of how timid it seems. She embraces the bird when he finally slept one night, thinking he died & the only way to save him was to turn him. (Pepper just helped calm down the anxious bird) Shilo afterwards is more energetic and warm towards pickles. - Whenever Pickles tries to talk about what her mother barred her from telling, she honks like a goose - Pickles has dots in celerity rather than presence - Edward gets under her skin, and truly spawns this unbridled fire of rage inside of her, which motivates her to yell "SUCK IT, ZOOLANDER!" at Elysium, and tunnel visions as she vows to 'dethrone him' if its the last thing she does - Pickles is so glad to have a sister. Genuinely probably the best thing that ever happened to her THATS MY SHPEAL!!!! If you have any more questions about them, throw them in my ask box!!! Here's some more concept / doodles for their designs, thank you so much if you read all that rambling :,,) (SPOILERS BELOW 2ND SKETCH!!) also yes Sunshine is the Sheriff rather than Deacon >:3c

Here's the link to Void's OG design !!!

#the suckening #jrwi #jrwi the suckening #just roll with it #jrwi fanart #jrwi suckening #arthur bennett #emezil tucker #shilo bathory #jrwi shilo #jrwi art #jrwi arthur #jrwi show #just roll with it fanart #jrwi void #jrwi pepper #jrwi pickles #jrwi emezil #Void truly is a single mom who works two jobs #who loves her kids and never stops #with gentle hands and a heart of a fighter #she's a survivor #literally brain rotting over 3 monster high animal companions #theyre just my bookie baby girlz!!!!!!!!!!!!! #the meowening #bub's sillies

[kit-foley]

Nancy Drew Games are 50% off on Steam right now so here are some shitty descriptions of the games for newbies or partners (not in order, also spoilers)

Secrets can kill: dickface high schooler was pushed down a flight of stairs, find out who did it

The Silent Spy: Nancy has mommy issues and cosplays as a spy in Scotland

Sea of Darkness: all of the characters have trauma around a ship. featuring the only canonically queer character.

Deadly Device: tech bro gets electrocuted, who did it oh noooo. Feat: women in stem

Midnight in Salem: Glitch-wise, this is the fandom-equivalent of the first release of FNAF Security Breach but doesn’t nearly slay as hard and they didn’t patch any of the bugs. Haven’t played it but the fandom is 50/50 on it, maybe 80/20 against

Shattered Medallion: off brand amazing race goes wrong, feat. A recurring character who you’re supposed to know

Alibi in Ashes: Nancy didn’t commit arson (this time) so who the fuck did? See also, “I can commit major theft and prod you about your dead mom, but I draw the line at arson.”

The Captive Curse: monster and intergenerational trauma, beautifully told story. Plus lederhosen.

Shadow at the Waters Edge: ghosts and intergenerational trauma, beautifully told story. Plus kawaii

Ghost of Thornton hall; ghosts and intergenerational trauma, beautifully told story. Plus southern people.

The Final Scene: nancys friend who we’ve never met gets kidnapped. Plus magic tricks/Houdini. Plus old man.

The Haunted Carousel: Dead mom plus the most annoying daughter you’ll ever encounter and her emotional support robot. Also you’re supposed to fix a theme park

Danger by Design: Parisian fashion designer with anger issues and also might deny that nazis happened during wwii

Curse of blackmoor manor: British girl says oh no my stepmom is turning into a werewolf

Warnings at Waverly Academy; the trailer for this one said something like “I hang out with teenage girls in this one, it could be my scariest case yet”, basically be prepared to do other students homework. Also immaculate dark academia/fall vibes tho

Phantom of Venice: white boy of the month shows you his seven hour tesserae slideshow and you single-handedly bring down a crime ring while wearing stupid outfits

Trail of the Twister: someone is sabotaging a storm chasing team but Nancy cares more about asking the local general store owner about his dead wife

Secret of the Old Clock: It’s magically 1930 again, this game feels so far off brand from pretty much all of the other ones imo but the music goes HARD and there’s def some homoerotic tensions between a dead old man and his live-in psychic

Legend of the Crystal Skull: make a curio shop owner sneeze, collect glass eyeballs, watch a Gerard Way look-alike cry, and maybe get buried alive

Haunting of Castle Malloy: banshees and letterpress and a pub that conveniently only serves juice. Terrible Irish accents. Try to find a missing groom for a wedding but also enjoy a walking sim that walked so Stardew Valley could run

Creature of Kapu Cave: get stuck in a tourist trap resort by a guy who calls himself Big Island Mike, then get stuck in a forest with an entomologist who makes you do her work for her, then get stuck in a research facility with an angry white guy who makes you do his work and then falls asleep. Music slaps but no idea what the plot of the game is supposed to be. Also do a “freaky friday” style switch with the Hardy Boys every time you call them on your cell phone.

Last train to Blue Moon canyon: picture Paris Hilton inviting you on a train and then she goes missing. Also on the train with you: the worst police detective, Zak Bagans impersonator, and Colleen Hoover-vibes.

White Wolf of Icicle Creek: “I fired. And I missed. I missed again. I got sad. I had a popsicle.”

#nancy drew #her interactive #nancy drew games #clue crew

[fairytale-poll]

ROUND 1D, MATCH 3 OUT OF 16!

Propaganda Under the Cut:

Carrie:

Cinderella’s ball goes badly and she kills a town. What is there not to love?

Carrie is a horror retelling of Cinderella, look it up it's true

Cinder:

She killed her evil stepmother and stepsisters (technically they "adopted" her as slave labor and the narrative treats her as the villain for this but tbh out of all the things Cinder has done, this was the most justified)

She's my wife and I love her and she's also evil but it's okay

She does cool fire stuff and murders people but I think that can be forgiven

I love her. Jkjk uhm she's really cool and while a lot of people say she's an evil Cinderella she's more like a Cinderella who never gets saved and has to save herself. And she's so super cool and charming and a genius. And she kills people sometimes but it's okay because she's very very sad and I think more people should care about her.

Cinderella as a villainess! What if Cinderella wasn't saved by her fairy godmother and instead murdered her step-family and joined an evil witch terrorizing the world? Cinder Fall is a dangerous villainess who has helped topple kingdoms and will do anything to gain power.

This propaganda is just going to be me listing all the ways she fits her Cinderella allusion. Like all of the characters in RWBY, Cinder is an allusion to a character from fairy tales/legend/etc. In her case, CINDERella. She's one of the earliest and most important antagonists, although at first there wasn't a whole lot to connect her to the Cinderella story besides some surface-level references(her name, her superpower being the ability to create glass objects, that one part of the dance arc where she infiltrates a communication tower and has to be back to the dance by midnight when she transforms into a dress), but in the later volumes the Cinderella aspects to her character become way more clear. (spoilers for later parts of the show here on out) People have summarized this way better than I am about to, but basically: She came from an orphanage and was adopted by a wealthy family from from another kingdom(a mom and her two daughters), but was really only adopted so that she could do servant work at the prestigious hotel they owned. The "prince charming" in her story wasn't a romantic interest, but a huntsman(someone who fights the monsters in the world, a career all the main characters go to school to become) who frequents the restaurant in the hotel. He sees her being mistreated and secretly trains her so that when she's 17 she can apply to one of the combat schools and leave her "stepmother and stepsisters." Like all the villains, though, she's like a version of her allusion where things went wrong, so instead of being whisked away by "prince charming" to his world, she ends up in a position where she kills the "stepmom" and "stepsisters," "prince charming" tries to bring her in for murder bc it's his job, and she kills him too. Now a child with nowhere to go, she gets picked up by the main villain, Salem, who acts in the Cinderella allegory as the "fairy godmother" who uses magic to give her "freedom." Except the magic is a parasite monster that gives her certain abilities, most importantly the ability to take the powers of a very select kind of person that Salem needs. This "magic" also has a time limit like the dress and the carriage, except it's the fact that it's a parasite that's slowly consuming her. Cinder thinks she wants these powers because if she's powerful, she can secure her freedom, but has yet to see that Salem is just using her, making her the new "stepmother" in her story(she came close to realizing this, mentally comparing Salem to her "stepmother," but then turned around and threw herself into her quest for power even more). Some people also compare the other characters in Salem's inner circle to a new set of "stepsisters," especially with how none of them like Cinder and wished her good riddance during the period of time she was missing and possibly dead, and that there's subtle competition between all of them for Salem's approval, similar to how siblings can be with a parent. Some people have also said it's possible that Neopolitan played the new "fairy godmother" role during said time where Cinder was on her own, because Neo was able to help Cinder a lot with her illusion powers, including using them on an airbus("carriage"), which was also the scene where Cinder got her outfit change for the new arc. There is also a part in the Atlas arc where she lets the General know she was in his office by leaving a glass chess piece on his desk(like the glass slipper that Prince Charming identifies her with), when she fucked him over earlier in the show with a computer virus with a chess piece logo.

Literally explicitly based off cinderella yet somehow people were shocked when her backstory involved basically being a child slave to her "stepmother" and abused by her "stepsisters". She put up with their abuse for years until they finally crossed the line then she snapped and killed them. But now she's still being manipulated by another stepmother figure. She seeks power because she thinks it will give her freedom. She can shoot fireballs. She has the most outfit changes of anyone in the whole show. She's a poor little meow meow and a girlboss.

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#cinderpoll #round 1 #round 1d #carrie #carrie white #stephen king #cinder fall #rwby #rooster teeth #fairytale #cinderella #poll tournament #poll bracket #character polls #polls

[papenniesandbentoboxes]

Spoiler-Free KEY Review

Alright. I finished KEY. I'm going to play it again with my sister and then probably do a more in depth review of it, but for now I've got a just-finished-it review, and we'll see how this one compares to my second review after a second playthrough.

Plot:

The plot wasn't too bad! A bit linear compared to other games but I did enjoy it. It wasn't as visual novel-y as MID but wasn't as interactive as some other games. But overall it was fun and entertaining!

Characters:

The characters were enjoyable. I liked having some characters there being only barely involved when others were SUPER involved, so we have a lot more range with suspects and suspicions. I definitely would have liked digging deeper into the characters, like in CUR and GTH and SAW and such. Although, I'll admit, in most of the other games we didn't get super deep backgrounds either. There weren't a lot of dialogue options, so maybe in the future we can get more dialogue and character deep dives! I want more substance!

The only part about the characters I actively didn't like was a certain character's hair (bro, that's some Assassin's Creed Caterina Sforza hair, Sims hair, idk but it wasn't good enough), and the random unimportant NPCs. The NPCs were a bit distracting and did take me out of the game if I paid too much attention to them, so that's my take on that. In the future, I want to random unimportant NPCs to be completely gone and I want to VEN sound design back. That was immersive without needing the actual people standing around.

Now the phone characters were almost useless, only there to push the plot forward with barely any fun shit. In the future, I NEED more interaction with them. Less texting, more actual conversations. And they don't even need to be strictly about the game, give me conversations like what we had with Savannah Woodham. Not just a phone call here or there for only the purpose of moving forward in the plot. I need weird phone calls where they're like "hello! what do you want!" and the only dialogue option is "bye!" so then you hang up. I also want to actually be able to call them, because if there isn't a plot reason for it, you can't call them. So. Yeah. Oversight from the game devs.

Controls:

This game I feel was not designed with point and click in mind. I feel like it was added as a second option while favoring the "modern" controls of free roam stuff. However, I enjoyed the free roam! Maybe this is because I play a lot of other video games that aren't point and click, but I ended up really liking it. Other than that, the controls CAN be a bit clunky to get used to, but that happens with every video game with new controls you don't know yet (when I started playing Red Dead Redemption 2 I punched my horse so many times because I couldn't get used to the controls and I felt so bad). I think they could definitely work on it more, but it is WAY better than Midnight in Salem. Way WAY better.

Music:

While not as iconic at the Kevin Manthei tracks I am in love with, I did like the music! It was pretty good, with some tracks standing above the others. I will say though that the track that plays in the tech store is my least favorite as it just sounds... meh. In every sense of the word.

Puzzles and Minigames:

Oh my god. OH MY GOD. There are actually puzzles!!!! After all, what, two puzzles in Midnight in Salem, we actually get REAL PUZZLES! They have some new puzzles, some recycled puzzles (THAT I WANT MORE OF), some pretty puzzles, some clunky but fine puzzles, and just a good variety of them. They also offer hints if you are struggling.

I think my favorite puzzle is... Well, I don't want to spoil it, but there are a few contending for the top place. (Although fuck math, all my homies hate math.)

As for the minigames, the coffee making is fun, although a bit daunting with the instructions. I recommend making your own notes aside from the in-game recipe books. The latte art can be irritating but eventually you get the hang of it. Not quite as bad as the SAW calligraphy but nowhere near the delight I got from the SPY cookies minigame.

Glitches and Issues:

I did catch a few typos and a few glitches, but they weren't the norm. Just look at the HeR site for what to look out for, and make sure your PC can handle the game. I didn't need to look out for that since I'm currently playing Red Dead Redemption 2 and my laptop is running that fine (on low graphics lol). Way less messed up than MID, worse than some of the other games, but hey, it's not like we've never had bugs in the games before (there have been a few times the games have crashed on me because of bugs). And this time we have autosaves to help out with that.

Overall Impression:

It's a solid game. I thoroughly enjoyed it. While the UI and controls are still similar to MID, the game itself is a step in the right direction where I want the Nancy Drew games to go. It isn't perfect, I don't think we'll ever get a perfect Nancy Drew game, but it's good enough for me.

I'm happy with it. I got to have the joy of a new Nancy Drew game, which is something I haven't had since Midnight in Salem, and we know how that went. I got to find new clues, see new places, meet new characters, complete puzzles that were both new and recycled, and enjoy a new mystery. It brought a smile to my face multiple times and made me squeal in delight when I solved something. I haven't had a good new Nancy Drew game experience since I played SEA when it came out.

So I'm happy. Is it my favorite? No. But do I think it's bad? Also no. I think it's somewhere in the middle for me, but that's okay. These games make me happy, and I hope we get more so they can continue my happiness in the future.

Tentative rating: 7/10

#nancy drew #clue crew #nancy drew games #her interactive #nancy drew pc games #nancy drew meme #mystery of the seven keys #key #mystery of the seven keys review #key review

[detectivereads]

Nancy Drew Game 34 and other Conspiracy Theories Master List

I took a lot of my posts down because of what I thought the new policies were going to do, however I am not being paid for doing these posts and all these posts here are crazy conspiracy theories that I thought of, and they are purely for entertainment.

I also wanted to re organize my posts I had a lot of post that just focus on the Icons. But reposted a lot my old theories.

ND 34 Mystery of the Seven Keys Master List

Random Post for Nancy Drew Games New or Old:

Favorite Nancy Drew games and hopes for Mystery of the Seven Keys

Conspiracy Theories for the older games (Warning: these post may have major spoilers) :

Nancy Drew Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon PC game thoughts #13

Nancy Drew Danger by Design pc game thoughts #14

Nancy Drew Warning at Waverly Academy #21 PC game thoughts

Nancy Drew Tomb of the Lost Queen #26 PC game thoughts

Nancy Drew Midnight in Salem #33 Pc game thoughts The Ned Mystery

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[cheerycherry3987]

So Much Spoilers Masterpost

Long time, no post! I have a tenancy when go through a series or story again where I will watch it through one character’s point of view. I had an idea to write about these characters or episodes, re-telling their stories, showing what we can learn from them and what (if anything) would I write differently about their character. MASSIVE SPOILER WARNING

NOTE: None of these are in order.

NOTE #2: As I finish each person’s post, I’ll include a link to the post under their name.

NOTE #3: This is not a final list

Upcoming posts:

The 39 Clues (Mostly Series 1, dipping a bit into Series 2)

Irina Spasky

Alistair Oh

Hamilton Holt 

Eisenhower Holt

Jonah Wizard

Amy Cahill

Dan Cahill

Nellie Gomez

Sinead Starling

Madison Holt

Doctor Who

Donna Noble

Amy Pond

Rory Williams

Midnight

Lets Get Lost

Leila

Hudson

Bree

Elliot

Sonia

Children of the Red King

Charlie Bone

Olivia Vertigo

Emilia Moon/Emma Tolly

Paton Yewbeam

Julia Ingledew

Gabriel Silk

Billy Raven

Stranger Things (Delayed until end of show)

No picture I could find because formatting sucks

Max Mayfield

Eddie Munson

Dustin Henderson

Steve Harrington

Mike Wheeler

Nancy Wheeler

Joyce Byers

Robin Buckley

Will Byers

El

Jim Hopper

Lucas Sinclair

Erica Sinclair

Murray Bauman

Bob Newby

Sam Owens

Martin Brenner

Vecna

NOTE: There will be no Billy Hargrove post before anyone asks.

MCU

Tony Stark

Steve Rodgers

Clint Barton

Thor Odinson

Natasha Romanoff

Bruce Banner

Shang-Chi

T’Challa

Gamora

Bucky

Carol Denvers

Drax

Peter Quill

Groot

Scott Lang

Rocket Raccoon

Yondu

Dr. Strange

Sam Wilson

Peter Parker (Tom Holland’s Peter)

Sersi

Sprite

Ikaris

Phastos

Druig

Makkari

Ajak

Thena

Gilgamesh

Sherlock

Sherlock Holmes

John Watson

Molly Hooper

Mrs. Hudson

Greg Lestrade

Eurus Holmes

Mycroft Holmes

James Moriaty

Mary Watson

Irene Adler

The Final Problem

Pirates of the Caribbean (Mainly the first three, dipping into Dead Man Tell No Tales)

Will Turner

Elizabeth Swann

Jack Sparrow

James Norrington

Cutler Beckett

Hector Barossa

RWBY (Waiting until show is over)

 Ruby Rose

Weiss Schnee

Blake Belladonna

Yang Xiao Long

Jaune Arc

Pyrrha Nikos

Lie Ren

Nora Valkyrie

Cinder Fall

Salem

Ozpin

James Ironwood

Qrow Browyn

Raven Browyn

Camp Camp

David

Gwen

Max

Nikki

Neil

Cameron Campbell

The Lake Lilac Summer Social

#characters #fandom

[obsessiveviewer]

080 - Movie - Carrie (1976)

In this episode, Tiny and I review Brian De Palma's 1976 film adaptation of Carrie and discuss a couple of recent Stephen King related news.

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It

Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower IV)

Pet Sematary

Misery

The Shining

The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower II)

The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower VII)

The Stand

The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower III)

Under the Dome

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Christine

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Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower V)

The Dead Zone

The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower I)

Revival

End of Watch

    Matt’s Top 19 King Adaptations

    The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

The Shining (1980)

It (2017)

11.22.63 (2016) - Miniseries

The Mist (2007)

Doctor Sleep (2019)

Misery (1990)

Castle Rock (2018) - Series

Creepshow (1982)

Stand by Me (1986)

Gerald's Game (2017)

Christine (1983)

Pet Sematary (1989)

The Dead Zone (1983)

Cujo (1983)

Carrie (1976)

The Shining (1997) - Miniseries

In the Tall Grass (2019)

Sometimes They Come Back (1991)

    Tiny’s Top 19 King Novels

    The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower VII)

Misery

The Stand

The Shining

The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower II)

The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower I)

Christine

Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower IV)

It

Cujo

The Dead Zone

Mr. Mercedes

Gerald’s Game

Pet Sematary

Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower V)

Salem’s Lot

Under the Dome

11/22/63

The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower III)

    Tiny’s Top 19 King Adaptations

    Doctor Sleep (2019)

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

It (2017)

Christine (1983)

The Shining (1980)

Stand By Me (1986)

The Mist (2007)

Misery (1990)

Creepshow (1982)

The Green Mile (1999)

Apt Pupil (1998)

Geralds Game (2017)

The Outsider (2019) - Miniseries

The Stand (1994)

The Shining (1997) - Miniseries

Lisey’s Story (2021) - Miniseries

1922 (2017)

11/22/63 (2016) - Miniseries

It (1990) - Miniseries

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[wickfordcandies]

Back at it, replaying MID, probably finishing it tonight.

I believe I only have to set like 3 pumpkins, I’ve made the TRUTH SERUM this time, and I realized you basically do nothing in the actual Hathorne house.

#mid spoilers #midnight in salem spoilers #liveblog #long post

[realize-who-i-need]

me: hey

any character from MID: [aggressively moves hands in the air while talking] [doesn’t blink] [lips clearly saying something entirely different from the audio]

me: nevermind

#nancy drew #her interactive #nancy drew games #clue crew #midnight in salem spoilers #midnight in salem #mid

[nedknickerson]

You’re in her dms, I’m making her jealous by hanging out with another girl during my fall break we are not the same

You’re worried about her putting herself in danger working on cases, I’m trying to recruit her to join my new detective agency we are not the same

You’re impressing her by flexing about removing a tree stump from another woman’s yard, I’m showing her my extensive tesserae slide collection we are not the same

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[netscapenavigator-official]

I just finished Nancy Drew: Mystery of the Seven Keys. I have a lot of mixed opinions on a lot of things, but I'm gonna keep this post abridged:

The puzzles gave me Ransom of the Seven Ships vibes. While there were certainly way more than in Midnight in Salem, they were way too hard, especially on Amateur Detective. I dread to think what this game is like on Master Detective mode. Maybe I'm a weenie and just way worse at these games than I thought, but this game, RAN, and The Deadly Device are the only three ND games that I've ever played where the puzzles got my so stressed I had to split my play time across multiple days because I kept getting headaches. I think I used the hint system or video walkthroughs to get answers more times than I solved the puzzles myself. Overall, not a rewarding experience, and I'm glad I didn't buy this game. This is the first Nancy Drew game I seriously considered not finishing.

The plot was fine. It would've been better with better graphics, a better environment, and better puzzles, but with those aspects missing, the plot was meh. I much prefer MID's over this game's, even though I really don't like scary games that much. It also felt like they were trying to win brownies points and distract longtime fans by including as many references as possible. I also feel like they realized what a botch job they did with Ned and Nancy's relationship last game, and they were trying to make up for it in this game. The problem, though, is that it felt... a bit forced and overdone. Like they were trying too hard to undo what they did last time.

Graphics were an improvement from MID, for sure, but still looked worse and more soulless than every past Nancy Drew game, even SCK and STFD. This game reminded me a lot of Supermarket Simulator... which is a solo-dev, Unity asset, early access Steam game...

The villain choice was interesting. Don't wanna get too spoiler-y, but but I just can't help but feel it was a shallow, surface-level, and rushed decision to chose who they chose to be the villain.

The navigation in this game sucks. I mean this wholeheartedly when I say I would've rather had MID's hybrid navigation system than either of these. The Modern Mode is soulless and makes the game a little harder. Part of the fun of point-and-click games is that they tend to only show you things that are relevant for the story and puzzles, allowing you to focus more on the puzzles and story as opposed to navigating this big open world looking for small items to click on. The Modern Mode in this game removes that and adds too much vagueness. Not to mention, the movement and gliding-ness of the movement gives "default Unity" vibes... which is fitting since the entire game sorta gives that energy. The Classic Mode isn't much better. This is the worst point-and-click system in any Nancy Drew game, ever. The click boxes are harder to find that SCK, but their more unpredictable in where they'll take you than MID. Truly an awful point-and-click system that only added to my stress playing the game. It was the clear that the new devs were totally fish out of water when it came to designing this system.

Overall, for the majority of this game, I was on the verge of stress tears, telling myself I just wanted it to be over. Nancy Drew: Mystery of the Seven Keys placed 32/35 on my ranking spreadsheet, just below Phantom of Venice and above Ransom of the Seven Ships. For reference of it's nearest games, age-wise, Midnight in Salem (2019) placed 15/35 and Sea of Darkness (2015) placed 7/35... so... I won't be replaying this game... ever... unless I absolutely have to.

Ultimately, the difficult puzzles were the Achilles heal of what could've been an semi-enjoyable game. This game, alone, has burned me out, and I think I'm gonna take a break from playing Nancy Drew games for a while...

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[nancydrew-onthecase]

Does anyone else feel like half of MID is spent in cut scenes?

#i just dont feel like ive been able to do as much exploring as in past games #*sigh* #i have been enjoying the game much more than i thought i would #but i have a list #of Things #nancy drew #nancy drew games #her interactive #clue crew #midnight in salem #i might be exaggerating #mid spoilers #midnight in salem spoilers

[dirk-valentine-lives]

DID ANYBODY ELSE NOTICE THAT NED WAS CLEARLY CALLING FROM THE DANCE CLUB IN VENICE ON HIS VACATION? I WOULD RECOGNIZE THOSE LASER AND WHISTLE SOUNDS ANYWHERE.

#mid spoilers #midnight in salem spoilers

[punchy-larue]

Some initial feelings about MID

I have a lot feelings about MID and they aren’t all negative. However, most of them have to do with the way some fans have been acting in the last few days. I understand that this game looks a lot different than past games, and that the characters are not up to snuff, but it’s just kind of insane to me the way some people are acting.

The story is fun. I’m an avid reader about the Salem witch trials, so I was worried I’d be bored, but I’m not. I also live in southern NH (50 minutes from Salem) and so far I have enjoyed the overall vibe of the game. Very New England. Lots of clouds, colonial buildings, orange leaves and faceless gravestones -- 10/10. I like the characters (in terms of personality). I am l i v i n g for Deirdre and Nancy talking about music in the car and then Nancy, useless as she is, trying to relate to a teenager. The voice acting combined with the characters’ personalities makes for interesting conversation.

I LIKE new Nancy. And as I said, I’ve been playing these games for twenty years. I watched them change drastically from the original format in SCK, STFD & MHM to the updated interface in SHA and then later more and more changes as we reached the point of SEA. People were PISSED. Really mad. Some of y’all act like we were all perfectly happy, completely content with zero mocking and complaints before this happened. Not true. As one of the few resident elderly folks in this fandom, I’ve seen people say they’re giving up the game series for things like an interface change. The drama has ALWAYS been real. And yeah, I was incredibly sad to say goodbye to Lani because she was the voice of my childhood, but Nancy’s new voice has all the same intelligence with just a bit more youth. As strange as it is to admit, she may be more relatable to new generation of young women. I can tell you that every time I’ve tried to introduce people to Nancy Drew games in the past, one of the first things they’ve been wary of was Lani’s voice. I love her, but I get it.

The character models are janky. They hold their arms in weird directions, move around in weird angles. Their lips flap nonsensically. I’m blanking currently, but one character shows creepy baby teeth constantly. It’s not great. It needs work, but here’s what I will say -- the movement throughout the game is enjoyable, the way you interact with characters is easy (you can skip what you want if someone’s getting on your nerves), the phone is awesome (I love that she texts!), and there are A LOT of people to talk to. Standard play in the last 32 games has had anywhere from 3-5 characters. Nancy actively works with 10+ characters in MID. So, yeah, it needs some work, but is it interesting? Actually...yeah.

I like the music. I like Mei. I did scream once at a scare. And there’s clearly some world building going on, which makes it clear that they WANT to continue the series. Nancy Drew is the most significant piece of media of my childhood and adolescence. She’s very dear to me. I would be very happy to watch Her Interactive make some more games, improve on quality of mechanics, and introduce a new generation of young girls to someone who was so important to me when I was seven years old. 

Sorry for the novel. I guess I’m just saying, it’s good and it’s bad. There are fun additions and shitty additions. Que sera sera.

(Also people seem to be having trouble with the graphics moving slowly, but I have had NO problem with that. This has a lot to do with the settings. One of the weird things that Her did this time that they haven’t done in the past is give the player a lot of different setting options. If you’re having trouble, I’d recommend looking at your settings and adjusting.)

I guess, to me, it’s still Nancy Drew. At its core, it’s Nancy Drew, and, hey, I’d take some more games in the future.

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