The monolith key
I cannot recall if I posted this somewhere in the Nancy Drew tumblr universe or not or possibly I made a comment on a YouTube video (maybe StoryRetolds’ reaction video to Arglefumph’s Everything Wrong With Nancy Drew Secret of the Scarlet Hand video) but I do not understand the way Nancy has to rotate the monolith key to insert it into the monolith (or rather the animation that happens when Nancy is solving that puzzle). Couldn’t she just figure out which side has to be facing out on which side and turn it to that side and insert it? Why does it have to be this odd disembodied (I know we aren’t supposed to see Nancy because we , the player, are supposed to “be” Nancy, but still) rotation (four times, so it gets tedious) of the key as it gets inserted into the monolith. If it was like a Rubiks cube and it had to be green side facing out, you would just rotate it to green and put it facing that way out. I’ve never understood that part of the game. I realize that all these things I have been posting about to do with Nancy Drew games lately make it seem like I don’t like the games that much. I do, there are just certain parts of the games that I don’t understand or like, for a variety of reasons. I have been a Nancy Drew game fan since I was around 20 - 21 and I will be turning 40 at the end of next month.Â
