"If he's the one who finds that mine, I'll eat my laptop."

top ten sources of terminal secondhand embarrassment: nancy's delivery when she asks jacques, "did you come to wisconsin for the cheese?"

Savannah: Logan has a new girlfriend. Nancy: What? How do you know? Savannah: He’s always texting on his breaks. Nancy: That’s your evidence? Flimsy. Maybe he secretly fights crime, and he’s texting infuriating riddles to his nemesis. Savannah: Yes, I’m sure that’s it. Thank you.

I love how the trap door will be like 90% closed before the villain starts their monologue and it just... waits patiently

remember when we put a cobra in the trash can and then put the trash can outside and said “this is fine for now”

much like the rest of sck's cast, jake rogers is more of a paper-thin sketch than a fully-realized character, but ... i kind of love him? i think one of the best things the remake did was retcon the little hidden messages into part of his master plan. there's something compelling about a high schooler planning so carefully for his own death while also feeling so stupidly confident it won't happen ... and then violently dying due to his own overconfidence ... which itself justifies all the planning and paranoia that he thought would never have to justify. jake was, explicitly, textually, not as smart as he thought he was. but you still play the whole game feeling like he's leading you around by the nose, making fun of you for being two steps behind.

Nancy camp counselor will forever live in my brain!!

I think one of the worst/weirder parts of the newer Nancy Drew games are the NPC's. In MID they kind of made sense, because they're either in the crowd when Olivia is performing or they're at a protest. (Though in my opinion idk if the protesters are really needed; I feel like the older games would've told rather than shown.) But in KEY there's no reason for them to really be there. They never say anything unique or help in solving the case at all. It's just a really noticeable part of the newer games that I never see anyone talking about. I guess its not that big of a deal, but I feel like the animation/voice acting budget could probably go towards something else. And in general, was anyone ever complaining about the lack of NPC's in the original games? I guess solving problems that never existed is the main issue with HeR's new era though...