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It’s no longer the month of May for us…but the month of Kay. 🎤🎶🗝️
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“The painting is staring right at me, isn’t it?”
Artwork by Taryn Gee.
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Went to the British Museum and had flashbacks to Tomb the Lost Queen
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Joe Hardy would stare directly into the sun during the eclipse without protective glasses and turn out fine somehow
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I have a personal theory that Ranger Akers is part of the LGBTQ+ community but 2002 HeR was afraid of backlash from their super conservative fanbase and blocked the developers from including it
My reasoning:
There was an interview with one of the old team members floating around a while back that said the developers had imagined a lot more characters were LGBTQ+ but weren't allowed to state anything in the games
Ranger Akers made the entire Moon Lake info site you can access at the ranger station
All the articles have different bars as the headers, for instance this one is like a blue flower look:
4. Ranger Akers made a page for himself on the site
5. His page has a rainbow header!
His article isn't the only one that uses the rainbow header, but I like to think he chose it for himself on purpose :) Of course this isn't definitive and he could just be a fan of rainbows, but there's so little concrete LGBTQ+ representation in the games so I'd like to think there are more characters than we know!
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Check out the official cover art 🖼️ Nancy Drew is off to Prague in her newest adventure, #MysteryOfTheSevenKeys!
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Noisette is Bad at Making Treasure Hunts
I'm really not sure if Noisette actually wanted anyone to find her treasure, or if she still harbored a ton of resentment and fear towards the city and wanted to clear her conscious before death by making it appear that she had done the work to ensure it would be found without actually making it possible for someone to do so. If she really wanted the stained glass to be returned, she could have just written in her will "the stained glass is in xyz, please give it back the following places:"
Instead, if her goal really was to have someone find the hidden stained glass after she died (as she states in the game in her final letter) she was bad at following through on her goals. The fact that Nancy was able to do so is due to so many contrived coincidences that would completely make it impossible for her treasure to be found in the real world. To find her treasure you need:
a) access to her moulin. This is in IMO her stupidest move in the whole game, she was director of public works (or something like that) and instead of trusting the moulin to the city when she died she did nothing and let it go to auction to a private buyer. Literally the only person in the entire game who gives a shit about her and the treasure (Lynn Manrique) can't do anything to find it bc Noisette didn't ensure that the treasure would be accessible to the public
okay, so maybe she intended for whoever purchased the moulin to find her treasure. Nope! because...
(Okay, I have a lot of thoughts here and this ended up being really long so the rest is under the cut!)
b) you would also need access to another completely private residence, Hans's old apartment. Nancy is lucky that Dieter still lives there and he works in the fashion industry, which coincidentally the owner of the moulin is in. But what are the odds of that?? Also, it states in the game that Hans went to Germany after the war and never returned to Paris. So did he just hang on to an empty apartment that whole time or did Dieter randomly end up in the same apartment as his grandpa? Paris was fine with a German soldier occupying an apartment during the war and never wanted to re-allocate it afterwards?
okay, so there's someone that has access to the moulin and Hans's apartment, they can find the treasure, right? Nope!
c) you need a very specific mechanic key to open the panel in the apartment wall. A key that for some reason only Hans had? She never spoke to him again after the war, so I'm assuming in order to hide her diary afterwards she had her own key, but that's not a part of the treasure hunt or clues at all. Nancy got Hans's key out of pure coincidence, so how was someone else supposed to open the panel?
okay, someone living there managed to open the panel, maybe some construction workers discovered it during renovations. So can they find the treasure? No!
d) The panel is locked, and you need to 1. know that the hazelnut symbol refers to Noisette and 2. know her life story to the point that you'd know her life fell to shit in 1945. if you weren't connected to the mystery, good luck!
So you made it in the panel, you have her diary, and you have the paper with the eyes. That doesn't help at all unless you...
e) know what Noisette's last words were! If that was an important clue, why not write it down somewhere??
also...
f) YOU NEED A FRENCH RESISTANCE WWII DECODER. Noisette was said to have died recently when the game came out in 2006. You're telling me that in the sixty years between the end of the war and her death she never once noticed that no one has one of those just lying around? She couldn't have changed that step or at least hidden "ma cherie" in one of the lock boxes? In the game we get incredibly lucky that we just randomly stumble on one, and even in that case it's known to be so rare that we need to jump through hoops to get it.
That's all well and good, but there's more!
g) you need to be able bodied enough to use ladders, swim through tunnels, and more. And you also have to be willing to break the law and go into restricted areas of the catacombs, AND swim through flooded areas?? of the catacombs?? where they have dead bodies?? who would do that??
h) once you do that, you need to have a working knowledge of the metro system, otherwise you need to go back and do it all twice. And that's assuming that there are no line changes or renames in the time between making the puzzle and someone finding it! You also have to hope that no one has made any changes to the art in the park in that timeframe
Okay it took a while but you found the treasure!!
I) Now you're locked in so you better hope you know how to use the code she likes to get out, otherwise you're stuck there forever and you're dead. If you didn't pick up a random code book while visiting the park, sorry!
This ended up quite long, but my overall point is that it would be completely asinine to assume anyone would be able to discover the treasure. Even Nancy finding it was contingent on a ton of random coincidences and deus ex machinas that would be unreplicable in the real world. I love the puzzles and the vibes of this game but the I hate the plot and after writing this I'm realizing how much I really hate Noisette as a person lol
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Nancy anytime something scary tries to get her: “Aaah! Stap! I could have dropped my croissant!”
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I don’t know how I never played any of the Nancy Drew games as a kid, I love point and click and I love Nancy drew and I would have been all over them!! My sister and I are playing through them together now and it is just an absolute joy. (She is however much better at puzzles than me so idk maybe they would have frustrated me as a kid)
Also it’s giving me some inspo to ~actually~ practice drawing and backgrounds etc. so anyway here’s treasure in the royal tower WIPS. I really want to do some actual illustrations from these games.
Also Evelyn/gabsmoulders streams are just prime content for background comfort noise when pain flares or fatigue keep me in bed.
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Just unlocked a whole new event in ICE, which I've played many times.
Usually, by the time I get to Tino's stupid survey, Guadalupe is gone already and I have to call her and ask the questions. This time she was still at the lodge and so I was able to ask her about the planet she identifies with in person.
Well turns out, if you do this, a BULLET falls out of her pocket as you are walking away, and you can have a conversation with her about it. She doesn't admit to anything, but it's a scene I've never seen before. Has anyone else come across this one?
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Ryan started the fire!
Hey guys do me a favor, badly describe a ND character without saying their name.
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normal nancy drew game but the entire soundtrack is macklemore
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so I put my haaaaaaaaaands up they're playing my song
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