#Phantom of Venice

[snack-shop-boss]

I’m playing VEN. I took Italian in high school. The people in the background are talking about Tino Balducci coming in to investigate the phantom💀💀💀

#nancy drew #nancy drew games #clue crew #her interactive #nd #the phantom of venice #phantom of venice #ven #tino balducci

[papenniesandbentoboxes]

happy colin baxter day

#nancy drew #clue crew #nancy drew games #nancy drew meme #phantom of venice

[mrwooglewogle]

I genuinely love boss fights in these games. Can you imagine if Nancy squared up with more characters? Who would you guys want her to fight?

#her interactive #nancy drew #nancy drew games #clew crew #clue crew #nancy drew pc games #danger by design #white wolf of icicle creek #phantom of venice

[cheshiremellos]

"She looks like a human version of the paperclip."- me to my girlfriend and yes I mean clippy.

#her interactive #nancy drew #phantom of venice #clippy

[who-dare-interrupt-my-slumbers]

sent this to my friend who doesn’t play nd games & she asked for context but has now left me on read for a solid 15 minutes…. don’t see what’s so confusing here 🤔🤨

#sometimes i forget not everyone has played these #tragic honestly #nancy drew games #nancy drew #phantom of venice #ven

[henrikvanderhussy]

If you do not find it in time, it will destroy itself. If that happens, we will hide another device. Your PDA will show you where we have hidden it.

You want me to feed a tracking device that self destructs to a pigeon?

The self destruct mechanism will automatically deactivate when you pick it up. And do not worry -- the device will not hurt the pigeon after it is swallowed.

There are a lot of bonkers things in these games, but I think one of my favorites is the time when an Italian intelligence agency tells you to feed a self-destructing tracking device to a pigeon.

#ven #phantom of venice #nancy drew games #clue crew #we're all in agreement that sophia is lying and the device would totally hurt the pigeon when it self destructs #yeah?

[scoobydoo-andnancytoo]

there is no world in which he has ever known the touch of a woman

#nancy drew #nancy drew pc games #phantom of venice #ven

[topeka-commission-for-the-arts]

i need someone to hype me up like colin talking about his tesserae slides

#nancy drew #nancy drew games #clue crew #her interactive #nancy drew pc games #nancy drew game #ven #phantom of venice

[nancydrewpcpolls]

#nancy drew #nancy drew games #hannah gruen #professor beatrice hotchkiss #beatrice hotchkiss #professor hotchkiss #prudence rutherford #deirdre shannon #tino balducci #charleena purcell #alex trang #markus boehm #savannah woodham #eustacia andropov #logan mitchell #message in a haunted mansion #treasure in the royal tower #secret of the scarlet hand #danger by design #phantom of venice #the deadly device #white wolf of icicle creek #secret of shadow ranch #sea of darkness #the captive curse #shadow at the water's edge #ghost of thornton hall #the final scene #ghost dogs of moon lake

[thebeastofblackmoor]

ANNOYING CLICKBAITY YOUTUBERS WANT WHAT @i-shouldnt-steal AND I HAD IN 2009

aka the most awful attempt at a VEN walkthrough ever made, brought to you by weird 11 year old girls

#Ven #vid #playthrough #phantom of venice #nancy drew #ik this is sooo annoying but also know its 110% genuine #we had so much fun #Youtube

[mrwooglewogle]

Me circa 2008

#her interactive #nancy drew games #nancy drew #clew crew #clue crew #nancy drew pc games #white wolf of icicle creek #phantom of Venice

[nancynancydrewdrewdrew]

Honestly I find the character of Colin/Justin and the way he is handled to be disgusting, especially in a game meant for young girls. When I was a kid playing the Phantom of Venice, I didn't really notice anything wrong with him, and even thought that he might have been there as a cute boy character for the fans to like, like Henry from CRY or Dave from SHA. I never LIKED him, but if you were on the message boards at the time I'm sure you remember how nearly all the Alternate Endings paired Nancy with him, and so I figured that was the function he was meant to serve in the game.

The problem that I'm seeing now playing this game as an adult (and like, honestly I've replayed it when I was an older teenager and didn't pick up on it so yikes) is that that IS what the game is treating him as. Nancy and Helena have a conversation about how he's boring, but cute, and he has an attractive air of mystery. This isn't something I'm reading into, that is literally the text of the conversation. The problem is that is absolutely NOT what he is, and so I've compiled here a list of Yikes (tm) moments that go directly against this characterization. I am going to put it under a read more bc it ended up a lot longer than I meant it bc I don't self edit and I wanna save your dashboards, but I know the clue crew likes to read lol so get ready:

1. LITERALLY your first interaction with him--he assumes Nancy shares all of his same interests because he finds her attractive, and bullies her into going along with what he wants. If she says that she is not interested (like I chose) he gets upset with her, and Nancy responds by placating him and saying that no, she actually WAS interested in tesserae! And he won't be nice until she literally begs him to show them to her. Then, after he gets what he wants, when she understandably says "that's nice but I have to go", he begins to INSULT her and once again she responds by falling over backwards to get him to like her again

This is harmful to young girls for a number of reasons, namely that a) Colin views Nancy as an object to project his own fantasies on to and becomes upset when she is a real person with her own interests, and b) It shows that NANCY is in the wrong for hurting his feelings, and it is her responsibility, not his, to make him feel better. There is something to be said for placating a dangerous situation until you can get out, but that is not the case here and Colin isn't being violent, he's just being a dick 2. He is SO UPSET at the fact that Nancy has a boyfriend! This is a point that comes up multiple times in the game, and was a jumping off point for many people on the message boards to ship him with Nancy. He has known Nancy for mere hours when he starts being pressed about this. This is not cute and romantic. This is very weird. He should not feel ownership over a girl he met so recently, and the game just treats it as a "haha, Colin is so funny" type of situation, when it is super predatory and gross.

3. The whole thing with the sausages--he gifts Nancy tainted sausages (which I fully do admit was not his intention, he was just trying to win her over with gifts which is a whole different thing I'm not getting into), and sends them with a signed card. Then, when Nancy asks about them, he lies and says it wasn't from him. Then, when Nancy points out it absolutely was, he is upset again. This whole thing is just so weird, and he acts like it's Nancy's fault for trying to figure it out rather than his fault for not telling the truth.

4.The absolute shift in his demeanor and tone when the bulb goes out in his microscope is insane. He starts yelling and berating Nancy for something completely out of her control, and when she's like it's just the bulb he's like hee hee sorry lol oopsies! Do this work for me now! And Nancy DOES it! Like that was a totally normal request after a totally normal interaction! This was annoying when I was a kid, but now that I'm an adult and recognize this as an actual abusive tactic that many men use to paint themselves as still good guys while flying off the handle it leaves a really sour taste in my mouth.

5. Why does he leave the note when he leaves the Ca on Nancy's bed??? There are so many other places to put it, like his desk, her desk, the coffee table, etc... that aren't as creepy as "this guy you've known for two days is fucking around with your bed" 6. Okay Helena says he's cute and sorry bro but that is just not the case. I'm being mean here and it doesn't really have a point that aligns with the post I'm making but let me dunk on him for a second--he has fucking Justin Timberlake ramen hair that wasn't a good look when it was popular in 1999 and it certainly wasn't popular at the time the game came out. He looks like he auditioned for N*sync and got cut first round and made it his whole personality As parting thoughts, I understand that there is a degree of Nancy trying to keep her suspects happy and unsuspecting at play. What I don't love, however, is that there are multiple conversations in the game where Colin is treated as annoying, but harmless. Because to me, that sends a very dangerous message to girls about what behaviors are acceptable for men to have towards women, and how they are meant to respond. I might be blowing smoke out of my ass here, because I played this game as a kid and didn't notice anything wrong until I was an adult, so it might not be a problem. But on the other hand, I also didn't see any problem with his behavior other than, like the game says, he was kind of annoying. So do with that what you will.

Also there is a lot of gross "save the children" rhetoric these days where they pick and choose benign things to focus their anger on rather than look at things that are actually harming children, and I hope I didn't come off that way in this post. My point is, even if you take away my points about harmful messaging to kids, I think Colin is a creep lol

#phantom of venice #nancy drew #cluecrewplaythru #clue crew #nancy drew games #her interactive #ven

[theweekendredhead]

Nancy Drew games according to Orla McCool from Derry Girls:

DOG:

VEN:

SSH:

SHA:

CLK:

HAU:

Bonus:

#ghost dogs was my inspiration and i ran with it #derry girls #Nancy drew games #orla mccool #james maguire #michelle mallon #Nancy drew #ghost dogs of moon lake #phantom of venice #secret of the scarlet hand #secret of shadow ranch #secret of the old clock #haunting of castle malloy

[breadori]

Recently finished phantom of venice and this is all I've been thinking about

#nancy drew #nancy drew pc games #her interactive #phantom of venice #VEN #ned nickerson

[henrikvanderhussy]

Margherita’s disdain for Nancy’s locket is hysterical, because I’ve dressed Nancy in about the worst possible outfit I could come up with. The locket is the least of the problems here

#cluecrewplaythru #ven #phantom of venice

[incorrectnancydrewquotes]

Helena: Did you take a bite of all of these chocolates? Nancy: Well, I had to see which one I wanted.

#helena berg #Nancy Drew #VEN #phantom of venice #original: leverage #mod Amy