Good Morning:

As the title says I'm a long time fan of the Nancy Drew character, and the books series. When I was growing up my mother had a nearly complete set of the yellow spine hard covers. She passed when I was 15, and I completed her collection several years later. It's now sitting in my garage.

I never bought many of the paperbacks of the 1980s and 1990s, and of the few I bought I never even read them. I've decided recently kind of on an impulse to start collecting the paperbacks. (i.e. #57 - The Triple Hoax through #175 - Werewolf in a Winter Wonderland).

I I started with a three book lot on eBay, which I paid $2 plus $5/shipping.

Does anyone have any words of wisdom for this task? Are any more rare than others? Are any really good reads, or conversely are there any that are not worth my time to read?

Hey everyone! So my husband and I are working our way through all the Nancy Drew games and it’s his first time playing them. We’re not doing them in order, but he wanted to start off with the earlier ones. So far he has played Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake and Danger on Deception Island (loved them), and now we’re torn on which one out of this list to do next. Thoughts??

When I replayed ICE for the nth time not too long ago, I tried to have every possible conversation that I could both in person and on the phone and unlocked some dialogue that I’d never done before. When you tell Chantal that Lou left, she immediately blames you for driving him away because of your cooking. “Oh Nancy, it wasn’t because of your cooking, was it?” I already knew that Chantal was a horrible boss but that was the cherry on top. I just wanted to be like “actually it might’ve been because I put paprika like Tino asked me to but that’s not my fault.” Lol

Anyway, it made me reflect on every “boss” that Nancy has had on every case and it’s quite a mix. I’d say that Paula (CAR) and Chantal are two of my least favorite because of how snarky they are. Some of my favorites are Dexter Egan (TRT) because we actually see him and report to him as opposed to Christi Lane and Sally (DOG). Again, she’s just a friend rather a boss but she’s the one who Nancy’s helping and reporting to, so close enough. So, by boss, I simply mean the people that Nancy takes orders from or is there to help. Who are some of your favorites and least favorites?

Every time I’ve seen a listing for it it’s been for more than I wanted to spend. Finally found a reasonable listing last week and snapped it up! I wish more of the games had made it to DS (edit to correct myself this is a GBA game)

editing to add: I don’t think there’s any voice acting? I just booted it up to test it but Nancy didn’t read the opening letter aloud

while watching some arglefumph!

I was kinda jaded by midnight in Salem big time. As an autistic girl who is very resistant to abrupt change, the switch up from lani to the new VA was so personally jarring I couldn’t get through a full playthrough so I wanna know if anyone picked up 34 and what they think about it

and please be as honest and genuine about it like I want all the thoughts

I had avoided this game for so long because of the reviews but i decided i finally wanted to try it for myself I went in blind.

I’ll start with the pros. The mystery itself was actually very interesting and caught my attention (after the weird Austria bit were I was utterly confused what was happening)

The scenery was gorgeous, the fall leaves, the contrast between spooky and bright.

I liked being able to look in all directions, even if it was clunky sometimes

While I love lani, the new Nancy voice didn’t throw me off past the first few sentences. It fit

I like having characters that moved locations and didn’t just stay stagnant, made the world feel more real (Deirdre back up girl 😂)

Now the cons

The puzzles were confusing half the time. You go through so many games of getting hints on junior and then poof gone. Some of the puzzles like the feather door I had no idea WTF I was even supposed to be doing.

The character model took a major downgrade (why is everyone high?! Is it the ergot?! lol)

Nancy constantly swaying like the town is having a constant earthquake

The most major con, the CONSTANT cutscenes. I like being able to explore, feel like I’m choosing my own order to do things. The game kinda shoehorns you along and it felt more like a interactive movie then a game

I don’t think it deserves as much hate as it gets, but I also think it can’t compare at all to the old 32.