Great job. Would love a theory video on how you would reorganize the Nancy drew games to have the best play through experience game 1-33 for continuity, increasing difficulty, character development, etc.
I always thought it was weird how Nancy was more compassionate in the earlier videos (sympathizing with Emily Crandall on them both having dead mothers) to the girl who insensitive to the death of the Shimuzu family's mother, making weird, elitist comments about Wade Thornton wearing boots, etc. Grrreat video, WK.
I audibly said YES when I saw you uploaded this. I feel like we don’t get enough info about Nancy sometimes. This compilation of information really sums up what an awesome character she is! I couldn’t agree more that Nancy shaped how I grew up in so many amazing ways.
Fascinating video! Let me present an argument for the ISTP angle. INTPs often struggle with chaotic external environments and lack initiative to follow up on their ideas, but Nancy gets immediately to the source of the problem and has the "stay calm" Se response. Also, ISTPs use Ni as their third function, so are one of the more intuitive sensing types. Especially in a Ti-Ni loop, they can come off as very intuitive until Se decides enough is enough and we have enough data to solve the mystery. Nancy is often surprised by the culprit reveals - auxiliary SE rushing in before tertiary Ni synthesized all the data.
Incredibly thorough analysis, I especially loved your thoughts on Nancy hiding from her emotions and trauma by constantly staying busy. I’ve never realised that, you’ve hit the nail on the head! Every Wednesday I look forward to getting home from uni and watching your new video 💛 You never cease to amaze me with your analyses and Sims builds! 👏🏻
LOVED this!!! This was so fascinating. We all have spent so much time with Nancy, so it was really cool to analyze all we know about her. And in a weird way, I feel that many of us feel that WE truly are Nancy, since we get to make so many of her decisions in the game- so it was so neat to see how perhaps that plays a role in our gameplay & in her personality. Like in your mental health and ND video- we play ND to be be in a space where we can be brave, powerful and courageous!
My theory why Nancy doesn’t age? She’s a time traveling vampire as we never see her reflection and no she does NOT sparkle 😆 Also, I’ve always thought of Nancy as a Hufflepuff because they’re particularly good finders (points if you get that reference) And aloha-mora is her favorite spell because no more locked doors! 🗝
This was randomly recommended to me and the quality of this video made me think that you had at least over 100k subscribers. Your channel is so underrated! Great analysis!!! You’re very detailed and insightful and this was fun to watch.
Definitely interested in the Hogwarts houses! (I'm a Hufflepuff, btw) Very in-depth and informative, you basically filled out the whole story for a character we NEVER see XD
Great video! I feel like we don't always focus too much on Nancy as compared to other characters because the games are made so that we are essentially stepping into her shoes. But she is an incredibly well developed character too. I agree with her being a classic Gryffindor, she has inspired me to be brave (what would nancy drew do?) when my Ravenclaw brain is telling me to not take any risks. I've always pegged nancy as an ISTP, but your case for INTP was well supported. For me, it seems nancy is more focused on the details and the here and now, making her a sensor. It would be cool to see more biography videos like for Bess, George, and Ned. And I fully support additional hogwarts house sorting! I think it would be interesting to see the roles of different houses on the plots, like what you did with the enneagram types. Which house has the majority of the bad guys for example.
That's totally what I would want to do for a Hogwarts video too! And I'm so glad you liked this one!! I agree that Nancy doesn't always get as much attention as she deserves!
Nancy Drew seems to be to be one of the better characters that players can step into. Not because she's a blank slate but because she does have her own personality. A lot of games with the blank slate protagonists too often mess up by making the protag completely silent and giving them no personality. I can more easily sink into a character if they have a personality. I also love that Nancy Drew is a universal icon. It's amazing that females, males and enbies find her character appealing and that's awesome! Also I'll go with an Arglefumph comment Nancy is a cyborg. That's how she can shake off injury so quickly, lol
I always thought it was in Ohio as I am used to hearing people go “oh she’s from Ohio” or “she’s a Ohio girl”. To me river nights seems more like a northeastern state kind of town. Indiana is pushing it for me as a midwestern kind of town.
My theory on why Nancy doesn’t age? Why it’s very simple! She lives and comes from a town founded in a non linear wormhole that allows her and her friends to be the same age with no one noticing! (Very similar to the theory on why the Simpsons don’t age)
If you check out the Nancy Drew analysis playlist on the channel, I have a video ranking my games in order from least favorite to favorite! My top five favorites are usually Warnings at Waverly Academy, Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake, Ghost of Thornton Hall, The Final Scene, and Sea of Darkness!
In some ways it doesn't pay to look too closely at the backstory, as it contains things they seem to be cagey about. Like, why is Nancy on permanent vacation? Secrets Can Kill said her school gave her a semester off (which was bizarre to begin with). The Secrets Can Kill Remastered retconned it so that she was called in (but not actually "employed") by Beech (no mention of the semester off in the Remastered game). In others, she goes on vacation and finds a mystery. In Haunted Mansion, Nancy ostensibly went to SF to help with renovation work (some vacation! Big Island Mike has nothing on Rose), not to solve a mystery. So is she a professional detective? Or an amateur one? Or neither, but just a teen on a long vacation who finds a lot of mysteries? Since time never advances, should we assume that all 32 games take place in the same semester? There might be a video in this. Take a look at every case, and categorize how she got involved in each one. Is there a progression, or is it random? She absolutely seems to be a pro in Phantom of Venice and Deadly Device. Did she start amateur, and go pro at some point in the series?
I jotted down a quick list. Make of this what you will, there must be a video in it. HOW THE CASES STARTED 01 - Nancy goes to visit Aunt Eloise during a semester off. 01b - An undercover detective asks Aunt Eloise to ask her out-of-state (?) teenage niece to help investigate Jake's death. (seriously?) 02 - Nancy goes to visit Mattie. 03 - Working vacation. Nancy called in to help with renovation work. 04 - Nancy goes to Wisconsin on a ski vacation. 05 - Visiting Maya to see a movie premiere. No mystery until Maya goes missing. 06 - Nancy is deputy curator at Beech Hill. 07 - Called in for a case by someone who refused to say what was going on. 08 - Called in by Paula Santos to investigate strange goings-on. Nancy constantly gets "fired", but was never actually hired as such. 09 - Nancy, George and Bess are all on a vacation to Snake Horse. No mystery until Katie's boat gets trashed. Nancy says she hasn't been on vacation in a long time (!). 10 - Nancy, George and Bess were going to Shadow Ranch on vacation, and found a problem when Nancy arrived. 11 - Nancy is asked by one of her neighbors to find out why her daughter in England is "practically bedridden". (I'm a detective, not a doctor, Jim!"). 12 - Nancy is called in by someone who doesn't say why they wanted her to come (like Ghost Dogs). 13 - Nancy and other detectives are called in on a treasure hunt/historical mystery. 14 - [First Casefile]. "Hired" by one of Minette's backers to see why Minette was acting erratically. 15 - Goes to Hawaii to be Quigley's research assistant. 16 - Called in by Chantal to investigate mysterious accidents. Is she working professionally? I thought they said she wasn't being paid, but Tino was. 17 - Holiday in New Orleans, only goes to Henry's house as a favor to Ned. 18 - Called in as a pro by Italian FBI. 19 - Goes to Ireland to be maid of honor at a wedding. 20 - Bess won a 5-day vacation and invites Nancy along. 21 - Called in by Waverly Headmistress to investigate Black Cat Notes. 22 - Hired by Krolmeister to investigate equipment meltdowns. Casefile uses the word "hired", so this is definitely a professional job. 23 - Nancy takes another working vacation, this time to Japan where she'll teach English during the days. She heard a rumor that the ryokan was "scary" and resolves to "poke around". She's desperate for a mystery and grasping at straws, but no actual mystery exists at the start. 24 - This is a headscratcher. There's a legend about a monster in the woods. Markus Boehm calls Nancy in to see if the legend is true? (The heck??) 25 - Nancy goes home on vacation (staycation?) to play in the Clues Challenge. [Last casefile] 26 - Not quite clear how this starts. Nancy goes to Egypt (why exactly?), then when she arrives, Boyle is attacked, so she investigates that. 27 - Nancy is called in to investigate Niko's death. 28 - Nancy is called in to investigate Jessalyn's kidnapping. 29 - Nancy is called in by Cathedral to help investigate a cold case (i.e. Kate Drew's death). 30 - Bess uses her copious TV connections to get Nancy and George a spot as contestants on a reality show. 31 - Melina calls Nancy in to help with museum exhibits, but goes missing before Nancy arrives. 32 - Called in by Dagny to find Magnus, and/or the missing treasure from the Heerlijkheid (if any). 33 - Beats me, I slept all through that game.
@@WizardKittenYT Yeah, and sometimes the backstory can affect the way you view the character. For instance, I remember feeling a real pang of guilt when I first played Waverly, thinking that maybe Nancy could be a valedictorian too if she didn't spend her life on perpetual holiday. But wait a minute, maybe she's not just bumming around. Maybe she graduated somewhere along the line, and is a pro or semi-pro detective now? Whether or not she's a bum sort of affects how I view her. It would be nice if they'd tell us. Looking at this list, it does seem like in the later games she gets called in for cases more often, rather than just stumbling into them. Maybe she is a pro.
I agree with you on just about everything, but I still don’t see Nancy as an introvert. She talks to literally everyone about literally everything. I know I, as a classic introvert, could never interview all those people and be comfortable. I think she definitely is energized by people and not drained by them, even though she doesn’t party or travel in groups.
I get what you mean! I honestly think she does all that talking to suspects because it's a necessity for her job, like how I talk to my coworkers all the time at work, even though I'm extremely introverted. That's why I mentioned that she doesn't seem to do it for the need to interact, but more for the information itself. But that's just my thought!
Great job. Would love a theory video on how you would reorganize the Nancy drew games to have the best play through experience game 1-33 for continuity, increasing difficulty, character development, etc.
Ooh that's an interesting idea!! That could be a fun challenge!
I always thought it was weird how Nancy was more compassionate in the earlier videos (sympathizing with Emily Crandall on them both having dead mothers) to the girl who insensitive to the death of the Shimuzu family's mother, making weird, elitist comments about Wade Thornton wearing boots, etc. Grrreat video, WK.
Good point! Her personality does definitely change from era to era!
I wonder if that came about when getting snarky became a big thing
@@DestinyKiller Good question. But definitely not a change for the better.
I audibly said YES when I saw you uploaded this. I feel like we don’t get enough info about Nancy sometimes. This compilation of information really sums up what an awesome character she is! I couldn’t agree more that Nancy shaped how I grew up in so many amazing ways.
Aw yay!! That makes me so incredibly happy to hear!
Fascinating video! Let me present an argument for the ISTP angle. INTPs often struggle with chaotic external environments and lack initiative to follow up on their ideas, but Nancy gets immediately to the source of the problem and has the "stay calm" Se response. Also, ISTPs use Ni as their third function, so are one of the more intuitive sensing types. Especially in a Ti-Ni loop, they can come off as very intuitive until Se decides enough is enough and we have enough data to solve the mystery. Nancy is often surprised by the culprit reveals - auxiliary SE rushing in before tertiary Ni synthesized all the data.
I could definitely see that!
Incredibly thorough analysis, I especially loved your thoughts on Nancy hiding from her emotions and trauma by constantly staying busy. I’ve never realised that, you’ve hit the nail on the head!
Every Wednesday I look forward to getting home from uni and watching your new video 💛 You never cease to amaze me with your analyses and Sims builds! 👏🏻
Aww, that is so lovely to hear! Thank you!! I'm so glad you liked it!
LOVED this!!! This was so fascinating. We all have spent so much time with Nancy, so it was really cool to analyze all we know about her. And in a weird way, I feel that many of us feel that WE truly are Nancy, since we get to make so many of her decisions in the game- so it was so neat to see how perhaps that plays a role in our gameplay & in her personality. Like in your mental health and ND video- we play ND to be be in a space where we can be brave, powerful and courageous!
So well said!! I totally agree!
My theory why Nancy doesn’t age? She’s a time traveling vampire as we never see her reflection and no she does NOT sparkle 😆
Also, I’ve always thought of Nancy as a Hufflepuff because they’re particularly good finders (points if you get that reference) And aloha-mora is her favorite spell because no more locked doors! 🗝
LOL, yes to being a good finder, that is for sure!! 😅 vampire also makes so much sense!!
This was randomly recommended to me and the quality of this video made me think that you had at least over 100k subscribers. Your channel is so underrated! Great analysis!!! You’re very detailed and insightful and this was fun to watch.
Thank you so much!! That is so kind of you to say!!
This was a surprisingly poignant video! Thank you for taking the time to put this together. An icon, indeed!
Why thank you! I'm so glad you liked it!
I love seeing other people be as obsessed with Nancy Drew as I am. 💛 Great video!
Hehe, yay!! Thank you so much! So glad you enjoyed!
I love every video you make and your analyses are always so interesting :)
Aww, thank you so much!!
Definitely interested in the Hogwarts houses! (I'm a Hufflepuff, btw) Very in-depth and informative, you basically filled out the whole story for a character we NEVER see XD
LOL, good!! I'm so glad you liked it! :)
Yes to Hogwarts houses! Great work as always, WizardKitten!
So glad you liked it!
Great video! I feel like we don't always focus too much on Nancy as compared to other characters because the games are made so that we are essentially stepping into her shoes. But she is an incredibly well developed character too. I agree with her being a classic Gryffindor, she has inspired me to be brave (what would nancy drew do?) when my Ravenclaw brain is telling me to not take any risks. I've always pegged nancy as an ISTP, but your case for INTP was well supported. For me, it seems nancy is more focused on the details and the here and now, making her a sensor.
It would be cool to see more biography videos like for Bess, George, and Ned. And I fully support additional hogwarts house sorting! I think it would be interesting to see the roles of different houses on the plots, like what you did with the enneagram types. Which house has the majority of the bad guys for example.
That's totally what I would want to do for a Hogwarts video too! And I'm so glad you liked this one!! I agree that Nancy doesn't always get as much attention as she deserves!
A running joke I have with my friends is that Nancy is immortal 😂
I mean, she must be!!
Nancy Drew seems to be to be one of the better characters that players can step into. Not because she's a blank slate but because she does have her own personality.
A lot of games with the blank slate protagonists too often mess up by making the protag completely silent and giving them no personality. I can more easily sink into a character if they have a personality.
I also love that Nancy Drew is a universal icon. It's amazing that females, males and enbies find her character appealing and that's awesome!
Also I'll go with an Arglefumph comment
Nancy is a cyborg. That's how she can shake off injury so quickly, lol
Well said!! I feel exactly the same!
I'm INTP and I've always felt like Nancy and I were very similar!
Awesome!!
@@WizardKittenYT it's my day off today and I've been binging your videos all day, I'm so glad to have found your channel!
@@paprikapringless9526 that is so lovely to read and so thoughtful!! Thank you! It makes me so happy to hear that you're enjoying the content! 🤗
Nancy uses the same science that the protagonists of the Pokémon anime do.
Oh cool! I don't know much about Pokémon, but that's awesome!
I love Rentaro's explanation were he claimed she was a Vampire
Who knows, maybe he's right!
I always thought river heights was in New Jersey..?
I always thought it was in Ohio as I am used to hearing people go “oh she’s from Ohio” or “she’s a Ohio girl”. To me river nights seems more like a northeastern state kind of town. Indiana is pushing it for me as a midwestern kind of town.
My theory on why Nancy doesn’t age? Why it’s very simple! She lives and comes from a town founded in a non linear wormhole that allows her and her friends to be the same age with no one noticing! (Very similar to the theory on why the Simpsons don’t age)
YES, like the Simpsons!! That makes so much sense!!
Could you do a video recommending good games? I have a feeling I'd enjoy similar games as you
If you check out the Nancy Drew analysis playlist on the channel, I have a video ranking my games in order from least favorite to favorite! My top five favorites are usually Warnings at Waverly Academy, Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake, Ghost of Thornton Hall, The Final Scene, and Sea of Darkness!
I think Nancy's hair is actually pronounced "tee-shin". The way you've pronounced it sounds vaguely off-color.
My bad! Thanks for the info
Love it!
Yay! I'm so glad!
In some ways it doesn't pay to look too closely at the backstory, as it contains things they seem to be cagey about. Like, why is Nancy on permanent vacation? Secrets Can Kill said her school gave her a semester off (which was bizarre to begin with). The Secrets Can Kill Remastered retconned it so that she was called in (but not actually "employed") by Beech (no mention of the semester off in the Remastered game). In others, she goes on vacation and finds a mystery. In Haunted Mansion, Nancy ostensibly went to SF to help with renovation work (some vacation! Big Island Mike has nothing on Rose), not to solve a mystery.
So is she a professional detective? Or an amateur one? Or neither, but just a teen on a long vacation who finds a lot of mysteries? Since time never advances, should we assume that all 32 games take place in the same semester? There might be a video in this. Take a look at every case, and categorize how she got involved in each one. Is there a progression, or is it random? She absolutely seems to be a pro in Phantom of Venice and Deadly Device. Did she start amateur, and go pro at some point in the series?
I jotted down a quick list. Make of this what you will, there must be a video in it.
HOW THE CASES STARTED
01 - Nancy goes to visit Aunt Eloise during a semester off.
01b - An undercover detective asks Aunt Eloise to ask her out-of-state (?) teenage niece to help investigate Jake's death. (seriously?)
02 - Nancy goes to visit Mattie.
03 - Working vacation. Nancy called in to help with renovation work.
04 - Nancy goes to Wisconsin on a ski vacation.
05 - Visiting Maya to see a movie premiere. No mystery until Maya goes missing.
06 - Nancy is deputy curator at Beech Hill.
07 - Called in for a case by someone who refused to say what was going on.
08 - Called in by Paula Santos to investigate strange goings-on. Nancy constantly gets "fired", but was never actually hired as such.
09 - Nancy, George and Bess are all on a vacation to Snake Horse. No mystery until Katie's boat gets trashed. Nancy says she hasn't been on vacation in a long time (!).
10 - Nancy, George and Bess were going to Shadow Ranch on vacation, and found a problem when Nancy arrived.
11 - Nancy is asked by one of her neighbors to find out why her daughter in England is "practically bedridden". (I'm a detective, not a doctor, Jim!").
12 - Nancy is called in by someone who doesn't say why they wanted her to come (like Ghost Dogs).
13 - Nancy and other detectives are called in on a treasure hunt/historical mystery.
14 - [First Casefile]. "Hired" by one of Minette's backers to see why Minette was acting erratically.
15 - Goes to Hawaii to be Quigley's research assistant.
16 - Called in by Chantal to investigate mysterious accidents. Is she working professionally? I thought they said she wasn't being paid, but Tino was.
17 - Holiday in New Orleans, only goes to Henry's house as a favor to Ned.
18 - Called in as a pro by Italian FBI.
19 - Goes to Ireland to be maid of honor at a wedding.
20 - Bess won a 5-day vacation and invites Nancy along.
21 - Called in by Waverly Headmistress to investigate Black Cat Notes.
22 - Hired by Krolmeister to investigate equipment meltdowns. Casefile uses the word "hired", so this is definitely a professional job.
23 - Nancy takes another working vacation, this time to Japan where she'll teach English during the days. She heard a rumor that the ryokan was "scary" and resolves to "poke around". She's desperate for a mystery and grasping at straws, but no actual mystery exists at the start.
24 - This is a headscratcher. There's a legend about a monster in the woods. Markus Boehm calls Nancy in to see if the legend is true? (The heck??)
25 - Nancy goes home on vacation (staycation?) to play in the Clues Challenge. [Last casefile]
26 - Not quite clear how this starts. Nancy goes to Egypt (why exactly?), then when she arrives, Boyle is attacked, so she investigates that.
27 - Nancy is called in to investigate Niko's death.
28 - Nancy is called in to investigate Jessalyn's kidnapping.
29 - Nancy is called in by Cathedral to help investigate a cold case (i.e. Kate Drew's death).
30 - Bess uses her copious TV connections to get Nancy and George a spot as contestants on a reality show.
31 - Melina calls Nancy in to help with museum exhibits, but goes missing before Nancy arrives.
32 - Called in by Dagny to find Magnus, and/or the missing treasure from the Heerlijkheid (if any).
33 - Beats me, I slept all through that game.
I know what you mean, it can be difficult to make sense of backstory sometimes when that isn't the main narrative focus!
@@WizardKittenYT Yeah, and sometimes the backstory can affect the way you view the character. For instance, I remember feeling a real pang of guilt when I first played Waverly, thinking that maybe Nancy could be a valedictorian too if she didn't spend her life on perpetual holiday.
But wait a minute, maybe she's not just bumming around. Maybe she graduated somewhere along the line, and is a pro or semi-pro detective now? Whether or not she's a bum sort of affects how I view her. It would be nice if they'd tell us.
Looking at this list, it does seem like in the later games she gets called in for cases more often, rather than just stumbling into them. Maybe she is a pro.
I agree with you on just about everything, but I still don’t see Nancy as an introvert. She talks to literally everyone about literally everything. I know I, as a classic introvert, could never interview all those people and be comfortable. I think she definitely is energized by people and not drained by them, even though she doesn’t party or travel in groups.
I get what you mean! I honestly think she does all that talking to suspects because it's a necessity for her job, like how I talk to my coworkers all the time at work, even though I'm extremely introverted. That's why I mentioned that she doesn't seem to do it for the need to interact, but more for the information itself. But that's just my thought!