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Every time I think of CRY, I just imagine a meeting where the team took a smoke hit and went:
“What if….we made them collect a dead man’s eyeballs?”
I'm not saying it's not creepy, but it's not as creepy as if Nancy had to collect actual human eyeballs from a corpse. They are glass eyes, which makes them considerably less creepy, in my opinion anyway.
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Help with Zelda: Ocarina of Time
I have played and completed Ocarina of Time dozens of times and I like to have printed cheat sheets (like the different upgrades and how many gold skulltulas get Link certain rewards - the wallets in particular) to refer to when I replay the game.
Judge me if you want to, but I find it makes gameplay a lot easier.
I am currently trying to find a decent map of the order to push the block in the Ice Cavern to get to one of the silver rupees.
There aren't many decent images of it on Google and there isn't one (that I can easily find anyway) on GameFAQs, so I though I would ask here on Tumblr.
Does anyone know where I can find a decent (as in decent size, but also decent image - not blurry) image of the block puzzle solution in the Ice Cavern in Ocarina of Time?
Thanks in advance!
You might not be so surprised if you’d BOTHERED to learn his last name!
Tex's last name is Britten, like honowo said.
Tex Britten | Nancy Drew Wiki | Fandom
communities tab on tumblr you've made me doom scroll 10x harder but holy fuck the notifications are so annoying
I completely agree. I wish there was a way to permanently turn off the notifications for it. I never use it and never want to see the notification!
Antique dealer in Moon Lake
Does anyone know what happens when you call the antique dealer's phone number (found in *culprit's name* journal in their hideout)?
I am replaying DOG again (I replayed it last week, but I found a post on Reddit about someone wondering what happens when Nancy calls the number, and I want to try it for myself).
I would like to know if anyone knows the number for the antiques guy so I can call him myself.
The responses in the Reddit post said, "I think it would likely just have a little voicemail message you reach, since it’s not important to the plot," and "No, but I think at that point there’s no getting back to your phone. I don’t think he would add much, though, since *culprit's name* stuff already tells you the important thing: that *culprit* did it."
The other thing a different post on Reddit mentions is that Nancy can fill the bucket with water from the lake (only during the shed fire sequence) and I want to try that, even though I know it will result in a Second Chance as the dock is too far away from the shed to be able to put out the fire in time. Someone on Reddit says it is possible to make it in time with water from the lake, but you have to keep going straight to the shed.
I want to try these two things in my current replay of the game, to confirm.
*Update: I just had the shed fire sequence and was able to put out the fire with lake water!!
The technique is to take the water from the left side of the dock (that's the side that worked for me, anyway), right near the shore and once the bucket is full, turn around and go straight to the burning shed. Don't stop anywhere but the shed. *
*Newer update: The phone number is to Gary's Gadgets & Gizmos, not an antiques dealer, and Nancy only gets a message saying "We're sorry. Your call cannot be completed as dialled. Please check the number and dial again." There is a business card in the journal for an antiques dealer, but there is no phone number listed on the card.
Bummer
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Tucker Davis
I just replayed DOG and I wondered this, as I have every time I replay the game: Why is Tucker Davis the only person in the Moon Lake area near Sally's cabin who has a chainsaw that can help remove the fallen tree blocking the driveway on Sally's property?
Sally's house has both a woodstove in the living room and a woodburning cook stove in the kitchen, so Sally, once the renovations are finished, assuming she renovates the place to make it much more livable, should 100,000% purchase a chainsaw, to be able to heat her home and cook food in her kitchen.
I assume that many of the houses in the Moon Lake area are heated by fireplaces or woodstoves, so most residents of the area would likely have a chainsaw. Or at the very least, a large axe. Ranger Akers could have helped Nancy remove the fallen maple tree, couldn't he? The Ranger Station has a large fireplace, meaning he has to get wood for it somehow, right?
*I may have posted something about Tucker and the chainsaw before, so I apologize for any repetition*
Why would Ranger Akers not be someone who could be trusted with a chainsaw, Drewlyyours? He is a park ranger! If anyone would know how to safely use a chainsaw, it would be a park ranger. He takes his job very seriously
i mean, he does seem a little short staffed? i would assume thats it.
He is short-staffed He is the only staff, as far as I know! It is mentioned many times in the game, but it wouldn't take very long to cut down one dead maple in Sally's driveway (or at least enough of it for Nancy to be able to leave, and Sally to be able to come home - I assume she plans to live there) and then get back to his ranger work. It's not like he'd be gone from the ranger station ALL day. A few hours at most, depending on how thick the tree trunk is.
Tucker Davis
I just replayed DOG and I wondered this, as I have every time I replay the game: Why is Tucker Davis the only person in the Moon Lake area near Sally's cabin who has a chainsaw that can help remove the fallen tree blocking the driveway on Sally's property?
Sally's house has both a woodstove in the living room and a woodburning cook stove in the kitchen, so Sally, once the renovations are finished, assuming she renovates the place to make it much more livable, should 100,000% purchase a chainsaw, to be able to heat her home and cook food in her kitchen.
I assume that many of the houses in the Moon Lake area are heated by fireplaces or woodstoves, so most residents of the area would likely have a chainsaw. Or at the very least, a large axe. Ranger Akers could have helped Nancy remove the fallen maple tree, couldn't he? The Ranger Station has a large fireplace, meaning he has to get wood for it somehow, right?
*I may have posted something about Tucker and the chainsaw before, so I apologize for any repetition*
Why would Ranger Akers not be someone who could be trusted with a chainsaw, Drewlyyours? He is a park ranger! If anyone would know how to safely use a chainsaw, it would be a park ranger. He takes his job very seriously
Tucker Davis
I just replayed DOG and I wondered this, as I have every time I replay the game: Why is Tucker Davis the only person in the Moon Lake area near Sally's cabin who has a chainsaw that can help remove the fallen tree blocking the driveway on Sally's property?
Sally's house has both a woodstove in the living room and a woodburning cook stove in the kitchen, so Sally, once the renovations are finished, assuming she renovates the place to make it much more livable, should 100,000% purchase a chainsaw, to be able to heat her home and cook food in her kitchen.
I assume that many of the houses in the Moon Lake area are heated by fireplaces or woodstoves, so most residents of the area would likely have a chainsaw. Or at the very least, a large axe. Ranger Akers could have helped Nancy remove the fallen maple tree, couldn't he? The Ranger Station has a large fireplace, meaning he has to get wood for it somehow, right?
*I may have posted something about Tucker and the chainsaw before, so I apologize for any repetition*
Nancy:
Nancy 5 seconds later:
Don't let the full moon (which inexplicably stays full no matter how many nights Nancy stays there) stop you from leaving your flashlight on constantly anyway, Nance. Real smart to do that 🙄 Even smarter to do it again after all the work you have to do to get the fresh batteries 🤬
I find it hard to read this blog because of how small the font is. I don't have vision issues but I find tiny font frustrating to read. I don't mean that to sound rude!
I haven't looked at my blog theme in a long time, so I've just had it that way for a while and hadn't thought about it. I've always liked small font and still do. But on my Disney history blog, I got some notes on one popular post that pointed out that the font was too tiny. It wasn't a problem I had thought about before, but I realize now that a lot of people do struggle with reading small font and that it's something I should be aware/considerate of.
I'm not 100% sure if you're referring to my blog theme or my post captions. I won't go back to all my old posts and change the font for time's sake, but if I ever post anything new, I'll keep the font the normal size. I went ahead and increased the font size on the blog theme, but the theme I'm using only has a max font size of 13px. So it's still kinda small, but it's bigger than before. Hopefully it's easier to read at the very least.
Have a blessed day! 🌻
Hi again
I did mean both the blog theme and the captions. I respect that you like small font but for people who do not like small font or have vision issues, it is hard to read.
Thank you for increasing the font size! It is much easier to read now.
Again I hope I have not been rude, I just wanted to let you know that I found the blog hard to read.
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Nothing, and I mean nothing, makes me more nervous than bringing that basket of vegetables back to Shorty for him to take a look at.
I made a cheat sheet with the correct veggies to pick on each day and how many eggs (its always 6), so I don't get as frustrated.
This blog is now dedicated to absolutely roasting Shorty every chance I get.
Shorty not realizing there is a broken window on the piano side of Cappy's that has a table right next to it (inside) that the opening is large enough for a teenage girl or other slender human to climb through without even needing to break the combo lock on the door (which Nancy leaves unlocked after learning the combo, unlike the lock on the lighthouse door in DDI).
*insert image of Squidward more stunned than the second photo*
Replaying Nancy Drew without Cheating - Part 9: Secret of Shadow Ranch
Loving this game is sooo diametrically opposed to who I am to my core (i.e. anti-horse girl), but I just CANNOT help myself. It’s so good. As a former Arizona gal myself, I am enamored with the setting, swept away by the romantic story of Frances Humber and Dirk Valentine’s forbidden love, and love staring a little too long at Dave’s sculpted ass at the chicken coop. I feel like this game is near perfect and I have very few complaints, despite the fact that I actually despise Shorty Thurmond with every fiber of my being. I haven’t hated a character this much since the days of yore, when Louis Chandler’s punchable face and droning voice haunted my nightmares. I have new nightmare fodder now - but I am very appreciative that at least it harkens back to The Shining, which is one of my favorite horror movies of all time.
God, my skin is crawling even just looking at that photo.
Okay, the real question here: was I tempted to cheat playing this game? The answer is no. I am thinking that between DDI, which I recently finished, and SHA, because I have not felt the need to look up any hints, probably just indicates that these are games that I have re-played most often. There was not any moment where I wasn’t sure what I needed to do next; in fact, I’ve come to realize that not playing along with a walkthrough (which I frequently have done) really does you an injustice as a player. It removes the element of immersion, so now, I was actually able to follow the storyline and really appreciate how well-fleshed out the game is. It just FEELS like they put some time into this one, if that makes any sense. It is enough to make me overlook the fact that I am terrified of horses and would never be caught dead riding one solo through the desert in real life.
Here are my thoughts:
1. This was THE FIRST game with this new interface, and it brings a whole new feel to Nancy Drew. The screen is larger, you feel more like you ARE Nancy. With that, of course, came some issues that would eventually be worked out, such as needing to deliberately close your bag every single time you pulled something out of it…made it feel a bit clunky. However, the changes’ good definitely outweighs their bad, and it was fun to feel like I was part of the next generation of HerInteractive.
2. Anyone else wondering how there are so many sticks just laying around, considering the fact that there are no trees on the ranch, and hardly any trees in that desert at all? I’ve never thought of this before, but I think these people would probably be buying firewood in town irl, not just finding it hanging around the yard.
3. Dave is obviously hot, and I have thought this since my childhood, but TEX is a smokeshow. Damn, those deep, rugged voices get me every time (lest we forget my concerning childhood crush on Dexter Egan). Mary Yazzie is a lucky lady, especially since I am inferring from this poster that Tex is very well-endowed. Girth is definitely rife with sexual innuendo. Remember, I know nothing about horses, and some people are reading this and palming their faces, but this is head cannon for me now.
4. Shorty is probably the dumbest culprit ever. I knew it was him back in the day as soon as I saw his stupid maps. The constant beration over his underripe vegetables and the elusive chicken eggs only further drove my hatred for him (without hints in this playthrough - I got thrown out of the house THREE times for picking the wrong vegetables. THREE!!). Shorty’s refusal to do his own job, his gross bald head, the fact that I for some reason have to rely on him every single day for water, him and/or his bank robber friends leaving the key for Nancy to escape from the jail cell within 3 minutes of coming to…I could go on. He is as dumb as a stump.
5. The look on Dave’s and Tex’s faces in this scene is hilarious. We can all relate. Even though lamb ragout sounds really good and I would take it over a burger any day, I have a hard time agreeing when he says that Dave and Tex’s taste buds are as sophisticated as a sand flea’s. This man made me bake a cake myself while he stood at the stove, stiff as a taxidermied bear, stirring at nothing in a pot for 12 hours a day, so I have my doubts as to his talent in the kitchen. “I must confess the man has NO TALENT.”
6. LOVED Dry Creek. It was so creepy that I really did feel nervous whenever I had to go out there, as if the sense of isolation of that town was seeping into me through the screen. Very cool spot. Getting locked in that jail cell was super exciting gameplay too. I give Shorty shit for leaving that key on the hook there, but in this playthrough I definitely knocked the key off the wall and into the floor hole about 4 times before I finally remembered about lassoing the chair. Who’s the dumb one now??
7. This magnet puzzle made me want to kill myself. Ultimately, I just randomly put each piece in each spot until they locked in, since I never did see the pamphlet in Mary’s shop. I thought there would be a better explanation out there as to why the wood pieces are there the first 10ish times you open it, and disappear on the 11thish. Has any game ever just inexplicably taken pity on you like this before? I am trying to think about whether or not I have ever realized that the game does this, or if this is the first time, since every other time I would have solved it the first time I opened it by following a very explicit walkthrough. I do like finding these weird little quirks, which I would never have found if not for this initiative.
8. The WORST puzzle though, not because it was hard but because it was so fucking annoying, was the game inside of Cappy’s after you put in Frances’s cousin’s ring. I had 2 tokens going in, both of which I had gotten playing the original game making a series bad guys with the token from the roadrunner game, and they were quickly gone as I lost twice in a row. I then proceeded to have to go back and play that roadrunner game SEVEN MORE TIMES!! in order to get more tokens to win a game that was purely luck. OMFG. I now have all 3 levels of that roadrunner game memorized. I will likely never forget them. And honestly, cheating wouldn’t have even made this easier.
9. And finally, Dave’s shit-eating grin in this photo at the end of the game, as he watches a mysterious Nancy cloaked in a physically impossible shadow.
Excellent game. Maybe my favorite so far. Who’s ready to follow along with me as I shit myself in fear as Ethel lurks in the shadows of Blackmoor Manor?
For # 3: The man on the poster is not confirmed to be Tex, they just happen to look similar and wear a black cowboy hat.
The girth thing is about a horses saddle (as in making sure it is tight enough on the horse so that the rider does not fall off the horse), not how well endowed Tex is. HeR doesn't really put innuendo in their games, in my opinion. Not intentionally anyway. I haven't noticed much innuendo in the 23 years I have been playing ND games. I wasn't looking for it but I haven't noticed it.
For #8: Save your game right before playing the game at Cappy's so if you lose you do not have to ride all the way back to Mary's and hear that awful song on the roadrunner game music. If you do lose the minigame, reload the saved game from before you lost, and replay the Cappy game and hopefully win. Save your game right after you win, so you don't have to play the Cappy game again.
For #9: Dave is flinching because of Shorty's awful yodelling (the photo is of the three men during the cookout on the first night), and Nancy and the glowing horse are superimposed over the cookout.
SHA is my favourite ND game and I know it really well.
SPUR OF THE MOMENT ATTEMPT TO BE FUNNY: THE ND GAMES RENAMED WITH FRIENDS-TYPE TITLES
Secrets Can Kill (Original): The one with two disks
Stay Tuned for Danger: The first one with Dwayne
Message in a Haunted Mansion: The one with the séance
Treasure in the Royal Tower: The one with Marie Antoinette
The Final Scene: The one where Nancy gets sassy about Maya
Secret of the Scarlet Hand: The one with cookies from Oaxaca
Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake: The one with the giant dog bone
The Haunted Carousel: The one with Miles the Magnificent Memory Machine
Danger on Deception Island: The one with "Vote for Holt!"
The Secret of Shadow Ranch: The one with the vegetables
Curse of Blackmoor Manor: The one where Ethel scares you to death
Secret of the Old Clock: The one with the blue roadster
Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon: The one on a train
Danger by Design: The "rude" one
Creature of Kapu Cave: The one with Big Island Mike
White Wolf of Icicle Creek: The one in Canada
Legend of the Crystal Skull: The one with Henry Bolet
Phantom of Venice: The one where people communicate via pigeon
Haunting of Castle Malloy: The one with the jetpack
Ransom of the Seven Ships: The one with Dwayne in a disguise
Warnings at Waverly Academy: The one with the Poe book
Trail of the Twister: The one where Debbie is annoying
Secrets Can Kill (Remastered): The one that's unnecessary
Shadow at the Water’s Edge: The one with the intrusive dead mother questions
Captive Curse: The one with Ned and Nancy's fight
Alibi in Ashes: The one where Nancy is framed
Tomb of the Lost Queen: The one in Egypt
Deadly Device: The one with Tesla
Ghost of Thornton Hall: The one that still has so many unanswered questions
The Silent Spy: the one where it actually gets personal
Shattered Medallion: The one where we meet Sonny Joon
Labyrinth of Lies: The one with the underworld
Sea of Darkness: The one with the lesbian
Midnight in Salem: The one that's been postponed.
Mystery of the Seven Keys: The one that was announced on April Fools Day and likely made many Nancy Drew Fans leave the fandom
QUIRKS EPISODE 2: Everyone’s favorite cowboy story! 🐎🤠
This is my favourite ND game, I have played it dozens of times and I cannot help but correct the fourth thing: Dave was poking around in the *pumphouse*! The only outhouse in the game is the decrepit one in Dry Creek.
Also, there are two bookshelves in the living room at the Rawleys. The one that has a secret passage behind it is the one closest to the rolltop desk.
I know I'm nitpicking, but I know this game incredibly well and had to clarify things.
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Mrs. Trent's intended birthday present for Joy was such a bad idea.
"Happy Birthday Joy! You know that horse you love to ride on the carousel? I had it removed so you can never ride it again! Isn't that wonderful?"
She bought Glory for Joy. To own and ride whenever (just not on the carousel- can't help but wonder where they intended to keep it. It shows up in Josiah Crowley's house in CLK, but that was decades before the events of CAR). Joy blamed the horse for her mother's death and told Daryl (Mr. Trent) to get rid of it, but he hid it in the secret room in the haunted house (Spoilers? The game is 22 years old.) but she didn't find it (technically Nancy found it, cause she was doing all the work, Joy barely made an effort) until two decades later. Mr. Trent didn't know how to deal with the loss of his wife (and the person his four-year-old daughter clearly had a stronger emotional bond with), so he created Miles, which Joy didn't actually use the way Daryl intended until Nancy convinced her to deal with her decades-long grief issues and put Glory in the secret room in the haunted house in the hopes that Joy would use Miles to find out where Glory was (and the last remaining picture of her mother).
Deal with your grief, people! Don't end up like Daryl and Joy Trent. Don't creat a rude "memory machine" that will insult your remaining surviving family members ("party pooping stick in the mud"? Yeah, no wonder it took decades for Joy to want to listen to Miles!! Her mom died on her - Joy's- fourth birthday! Who is supposed to be happy on their birthday when that sort of thing happens? I bet she hated her birthday for every one of those 20-something years before Nancy helped her! I would, too!) and make them not want to process their grief healthily.
Do you take notes when playing Nancy Drew?
Yes
No
I'm trying to figure out if the people on the Nancy Drew side of Tumblr are like me and take notes when playing ND games and refer to them when replaying the games.
I've been playing Nancy Drew games since around 2001, and I have a big binder of notes I took while first playing each game (and I have added to it when replaying the games). I have printouts (yeah, I still have a printer) of things like the solution to the magnet maze in SHA and the maps of the houses, so that I don't have to pause the game and minimize the window (I mostly replay the older games - 6 through 12 - that didn't have the option to play in a small game window) to look it up online.
It depends on what you mean by "taking notes"! I have tried to write things down, and I have a notebook that I want to use for game notes, but a) I'm horrible at using notebooks because I don't want to ruin how pristine they are, and b) everyone who posts their notes on Tumblr seems to have beautiful handwriting and make their notes look so aesthetic. I, on the other hand, am not great at doing that, so I end up just getting annoyed with how my notes turn out and have kind of given up on the idea. (I don't think that other people's notes need to be aesthetic! I think that if your notes help you to any degree and you like doing it, you should stick with it regardless of how they look. It should be about usefulness rather than looks, but I'm very particular about things and am trying to become more laid back, but it's hard work lol.)
What I realistically do is that I take a lot of pictures on my phone of any information I think/remember will be useful and of any puzzle that I do part of before taking a break so that I can get it back to how it was before, and that kind of thing. And I will have documents on my phone of different information, for example: the order you click things in (sometimes I'll even draw numbers on top of the pictures I take in my photo editor that's built into my phone).
With all that in mind, though, I delete the pictures when I'm done with the game, because I don't want them taking up space on my phone when I'm not going to reuse them. And I don't think I delete my notes (although maybe I do now that I'm thinking about it, I'm not sure), but I also don't really go back to past notes when I restart games.
I feel like this is maybe the new 'technological' version of note taking? 😂 I'm not sure.
Here is an example of my notes (from 21 years ago, so I guess my printing was tidier then). The Sharpie stars were added within the last 2 years.
I know my posts and responses can be wordy. I am not offended! I'm glad you like reading them!
I can relate to the being particular thing.
Thanks for the response!
