The Eleven Worst Nancy Drew Games
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ส.ค. 2024
- Here are my choices for the 11 worst Nancy Drew games, from best to worst.
White Wolf of Icicle Creek
Labyrinth of Lies
Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake
Secrets Can Kill
Trail of the Twister
Tomb of the Lost Queen
Lights, Camera, Curses
The Creature of Kapu Cave
Midnight in Salem
The Shattered Medallion
Ransom of the Seven Ships
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Nancy has more care for Maya in The Final Scene than she does for Bess in Ransom of the Seven Ships.
Idk how they messed that up.
Because Nancy gets so wrapped up in mysteries that she shuts everything else out. The way she acts in Ransom is typical. It's Final Scene that's atypical, maybe because the danger to Maya was immediate, while with Bess, she probably figured it would all be okay in the end.
My mom literally plays White wolf just for the cooking and the fox and geese lol 😂
What frustrated me about "Tomb of the Lost Queen" is that I think it has a lot of elements that could have made it a really good game - it gave me the same feeling I had when I first played "Secret of the Scarlet Hand", which is one of my favorite games. Puzzles with a historical feeling, getting really immersed into the setting, getting the feeling you're headed towards a big historical revelation. The problem with "Tomb" is it didn't tie in the modern mystery angle with the historical angle. It's more of an archeological puzzle game than a mystery game.
I think it's really hindered by the opening. The game starts and immediately a character you don't know is found unconscious, you're told that it's foul play, then immediately have a conversation with Lily that abruptly diverts into you playing a board game for 5 minutes to teach you symbols that you will not encounter again for 15+ hours. That's just bad pacing.
If there had been a slow build like in "Scarlet Hand", I think "Tomb" could have easily been a mid- to upper-tier game. Nancy's there to assist on the dig site, so let the first hour be that. For the first hour, you meet John and all the other characters (no withholding Jamila and Dylan until the tomb is opened), get familiar with the dig site, and do a couple of basic tasks to help John and Lily. At the same time, John confides that he suspects there's something sinister happening - he thinks someone is tampering with the site. While talking to each suspect, you get the impression that they each have motivation to meddle with the dig site - profit, gaining credibility, professional acclaim, etc.
Then Nancy opens up the first tomb, all the characters gather in to see, the curse on the wall is read out, then soon after John is found unconscious. Now his attack has meaning and impact - was his attack because someone really is tampering with the site? Or is it tied to the curse? From then on, the game plays out basically the same - you're trying to discover the real tomb before the culprit to protect the integrity of the dig site and prevent history from being lost, and simultaneously investigating who attacked John and is sabotaging the site.
To me "Tomb" could have been a much better game if it had better structuring; I think the puzzles were fun and the setting was neat, but you're right, overall it felt like we were set loose without much direction. Good elements, but lacking in structure.
I one thousand percent agree with this entire assessment
Yes and the ending is such a downer with a Birds Eye puzzle then John suddenly appearing to save the day after being absent the whole time. 🤦🏻♂️ They could have had a much better confrontation with the culprit, and Nancy saving the day on her own and maybe escaping a suspenseful booby trap. Scarlet Hand had a neat ending this game could have as well but really dropped the ball.
I really wanted to like Ghost Dogs more, but it's very uneven because you get sidetracked with the bird pictures/getting spark plug/collecting bugs/getting camo chores. I was disappointed that the game wasn't as scary as it was advertised - you only see the dogs once at the beginning!
I agree for me it holds nostalgia so I do still like it as it’s the game I played over and over that got me into the Nancy Drew game series as a kid. But objectively I wish we got more out of it:
My 8 year old self disagrees. Me and my friends were frozen in fear a couple of times playing the game
@Chellekathryn same the dogs at the start of the game traumatized me for life i never got past it lololol
aw, Im a huge fan of white wolf! i love cold environments and I found the lodge to be cozy and inviting. I also like fox and geese, but I struggled so much with the shoveling snow off the lake puzzle! poor nancy fell in so many times 🥲
Agreed! I actually love the cooking chore because I just love cooking games in general. But I do agree also that the other chores were really annoying. I did hate the lake shoveling puzzle and the fox and geese one SO MUCH. But I still like the game overall. It caught me off guard when he mentioned White Wolf first because it's one of my faves but he has valid complaints.
Week 2 into trying go beat the Fox and Geese game. The cooking/housekeeping part was difficult because you had to be there at certain times, so couldn't get caught up in sleuthing
Same white wolf was one of my favorites i Even like the cooking
Very good list with valid points! I agree with a lot of what you said. Ransom and Twister were my least favorite. I hated the feeling that Her Interactive was just pushing out games to push them. Back when they released 2 games a year. Take your time for a quality game.. minus the however many years we waited for the garbage that was Midnight in Salem. 😂 Can't wait to see your top picks! Love your content!
Trail of the Twister is the only Nancy Drew game that actually fills me with rage when I play it 😂
This is exactly why I love the ND games. Everyone has something they like! I was so shocked when the first thing you said was infact my most favourite. I cannot ever go past White Wolf, and I LOVE the cooking game!! We are so lucky that the series is so expansive. Can't wait til the next game!
White Wolf: I thought the cooking chore in this one was one of the best in the series, although you do have to do it too often, and schedule your time outside the house around it, which was a pain. Fox and Geese should be pretty easy (it's just a Checkers variant), but in the computer age, people tend not to have board game skills any more.
Labyrinth of Fries: Yeah, near the bottom of my list. Unclear motives, bad dialogue, a set that couldn't possibly be used in a play, and one character who's in two different places at the same time for half the game. Labyrinth of Fries is my name for the recipe that WOULD have been based on this game if The Nancy Drew Cookbook had been based on the games instead of the books.
Ghost Dogs: My appreciation of this one has gone up somewhat, but I still have some problems with it, one of which is that the Ghost Dogs only attack once, and Nancy can roam the woods at night without fear of them. Bottom 11 is a third of the series, so I can see putting it there, but it's not bad.
Secrets Can Kill: Yeah, bad. Although oddly enough I like it better than Remastered, due to unintentionally funny things like Juvenile Delinquent Nancy, and Echo Nancy who just repeats what other people say. At least Aunt Eloise doesn't have a cage in her living room in this one. And it actually makes sense that she was called in by Aunt Eloise, rather than the Police or the school, neither of whom would trust an out-of-state amateur with a murder case.
Trail of the Twister: We played this one fairly early (we played out of order), and we had had it in mind that one of the selling points of the Nancy Drew series was that they took place in good looking environments. Castles, exotic foreign locals, Victorian Homes renovated as B&B's, et cetera. But this game seemed to be filmed in Crap-O-Vision. It did an accurate job recreating a dilapidated farmhouse with plywood furnishings, but who wants to see that? And otherwise, yeah, the game is too much chores, not enough mystery.
Tomb of the Lost Queen: The pointless Alien subplot drags this one down. (I wonder who at HER was so into that?) A problem I have with this is that if you're exploring a lost pyramid, THAT should be the story. Tacking a mystery onto that just because you've gotta have a mystery, seems gratuitous.
Lights, Camera, Curses: Decent as Hidden Object games go, but not really meant to be compared with Adventure Games.
Kapu Cave: Truly awful, although I sort of liked Quirky Quigley, especially the way she dropped out of a tree to talk to you. Wouldn't have minded if she'd turned up in a later game. But mostly the game is a pain in the frass.
Midnight in Salem: The Worst Game, hands down. Barely a game at all, just an interactive movie with a massively repetitive plot. It feels totally different than the others because it wasn't made by HER. It literally is a different series. Best thing in this game is Creepy Deirdre hanging over your shoulder like a vulture.
Shattered Medallion: All the characters in this one bored me, including Sonny, and it's not even clear what we accomplished at the end. I still wonder if there's an optional way to betray Kiri that people just haven't found yet. Best thing about this one is that it was the last of the Aliens, so I don't care how we got rid of that as long as we did.
Ransom of the Seven Ships: This one's going to need a separate post.
I was a dumb kid and I thought an offscreen character could be the culprit in Ransom. Cause Nancy doesn’t seem concerned, so I just…trusted her 😢
If it makes you feel better, my brother thought the same thing, so you're not alone!
@@kimberlyjohnson2580 kids are stupid but it’s ok
I was so confused about Labyrinth of Lies too...good setting but I've no idea what I was doing or need to do...
The cooking chores are my favorite!
Me too! Sometimes I play the game just to do the cooking chores. And that sequential number punching game in Alibi in Ashes.
Id have to say the worst game of all is definitely Midnight in Salem in my opinion
There were clearly some games in this franchise that got more love and attention by the developers than others. Definitely some of them are “big” games while others are “fillers” so they could keep churning out on their 6 month release window.
Ransom of the Seven Ships: I'd put this one somewhere in the middle. Perhaps one of the Bottom 11, but far from the very bottom. It's biggest problem is that players have been conditioned to believe that in a Nancy Drew game, the culprit, will always be someone standing out in plain view for the entire game. (Secrets Can Kill is maybe the only game that didn't do that). That's kind of silly, but it is the established pattern, and what people would expect. Reasonably speaking, Johnny isn't the ONLY suspect, but players would be conditioned to think he was, so the game should have pulled a swerve and gone some other way.
It would have been the perfect fakeout if Johnny was a red herring, and Bess and George themselves were the culprits, playing a joke. I really believed that was the answer when I first played, and the "clue" was that George wasn't waiting on the dock when the plane arrived, and that her phone conveniently wasn't working. Turns out that wasn't a clue, just bad writing.
I liked the Hourglass puzzle, but there were several I didn't like, maybe the dumbest of which was the cave wall magically turning into a slider puzzle. Underwater Sudoku is silly, but no more difficult than any other Sudoku.
What gives me sympathy for Ransom is that it's been censored for political reasons, and nonsensical political reasons at that. The rationale for censoring it was a conflation of Blackface (a form of ridicule) with ALL disguise, which is patently absurd. (the point of a disguise is 180 degrees opposite to the point of Blackface). And it's especially nonsensical in this day and age, when you literally ARE whatever you say you are. If Johnny said he was Jamaican, he WAS Jamaican, period.
But when the orders came down from HER that we were supposed to hate this game, a lot of people who had no problem with it before suddenly did, because they knew they were supposed to. Case in Point: In 2013, you named Ransom as one of the six BEST games. As late as 2019, Johnny's disguise wasn't mentioned as a problem in the "Everything Wrong With Ransom of the Seven Ships" video. Now the game is rated Zero. Obviously tastes change in 9 years, but Top 6 to Rock Bottom is a pretty big swing. I'm not blaming you, I totally understand. If you don't denounce the game, people will complain, but if you do, nobody will. (except me, and even I'm doing it nicely). Keeping people happy is one of the needs of a TH-cam channel, I totally get that.
Personally, I think you were overrating it when you said it was Top 5, and are underrating it now. It does have some genuine problems, which you pointed out, but Johnny's disguise isn't one, nor really is the absence of characters. I didn't expect a desert island game to be crowded, that would defeat the point. Right before I first played this, I'd played another desert island game, Return to Mysterious Island, which makes Ransom of the Seven Ships seem crowded. That one's got no other characters, no monkeys, no parrots, just an environment to interact with.
Great comments.
I agree with your analysis of the game. My only point of contention isn’t about your opinion of the game but your points about Blackface and disguise. I feel it was a complete oversight and agree that the intent was absolutely not to be insulting, but it was to some so we can’t ignore that. I will also say that I agree that people can be whatever they want to be as far as gender, religion etc but that does not apply to race or ethnicity. No where has that been celebrated or “allowed” someone that is not black can not just say they are black. Well, I guess they could but it certainly doesn’t make it true or doesn’t save it from criticism and hurt feelings. Or to your point Johnny saying he is Jamaican. He can absolutely be from Jamaica. Hell, as Dwayne, he could live in Jamaica. White people live in and are born in Jamaica. That does not give them the allowance to dread their hair and use an accent that’s not their own without insult others or seeming that the intent was to be insulting.
That being said, we know HER did this to show Dwayne’s acting chops and back ground as a character actor. Which I thought was cool. They could have easily had him fake a really authentic sounding British accent. His work in Shakespearen plays would be a nice Easter egg from STFD. Or French for that matter.
See White Wolf is one of those games where it's great if you're like me and actually genuinely love chores, especially cooking challenges. But I do see how those like you who hate that sort of thing how it would not be a good experience. It's similar to Ghost Dogs, I enjoyed doing the different chore tasks (though I do agree the bird hunting was a bit lacking). I also kinda enjoyed the Frass puzzle in Kapu Cave, oddly enough (though here I do also agree the story wasn't executed as well as it could and should have been.)
I've said it before though, I have a very different preference of games than you though. I absolutely hate several games you love, like the Haunted Carousel for example, and vice versa I've found.
Though I think everyone agrees collectively that Shattered Medallion is just objectively terrible 😅 I've never ever heard anyone try to defend it. It's just bad. Just plain bad. And the same with Random of the Seven Ships. Also objectively, plainly awful.
I would like Haunted Carousel a lot more if it didn’t have Miles in it. That little robot drives me crazy
lol I loooooove chores in Nancy Drew games. I always took getting the bird pictures (or whatever else) sooo seriously! But yeah, Midnight in Salem was a huge change in the franchise (they even changed the dang logo) so I just. Older bad ND games will all probably be better from here on out.
I think Midnight in Salem would have been better if they didn't jump game platforms so drastically. I know the fandom placed a lot of pressure on wanting a game NOW but it honestly was barely playable. I think they focused too much on the appearance of the new platform instead of focusing on the knitty gritty of the game such as the puzzles, characters, dialog and plot. I'm hoping they won't make the same mistake as their new upcoming game.
Very well put together list. I agree with all the points, except Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake. I absolutely loved that game. Maybe my childhood nostalgia makes me a bit biased but I'll never be able to think differently because I have such good memories of playing it. But had I played it for the first time as an adult, I may be more apt to see your points. Great video!
I have a special fondness for Ghost Dogs. It was also the first game I beat.
Same here :-)
i think it also has the advantage of having a roaring 20s/Mickey Malone gangster speakeasy backdrop flavor (if you're into that kind of thing) and some really good ambience music.
White Wolf INFURIATES ME
I love ghost dogs of moon lake. It was my first game as a kid and also what reignited my love for nd games as an adult.
Valid points although I don’t completely agree. I feel like Midnight in Salem should be at the bottom just because of its lore and how much we had to fight to get something so subpar
I don't understand why people hate on Ransom. It has such fun puzzles and a really cool ambience, and the pirate music is great. I'm mad it was discontinued
And I love TMB because I love the mythology! LIES was super confusing in directing you I'm the way that you're supposed to go and solve things. I found myself stumbling around A LOT. You make all great and valid points that I totally understand. Glad to hear your input!
Having recently streamed through all these games I can confirm that I and my entire community have an intense hatred of Ransom of the Seven Ships. Playing it was my villain origin story. But have you seen the bizarre big island mike bucket hat that her interactive is selling in their online store??
hey man idk if you’ll see this but i love like every once in a while just binge watching you playing ND and its great i dont have a laptop anymore but me and my grandma use to play all the time and when we would get stuck we would watch your videos, love the videos man keep it up
even herinteractive thinks ransom of the seven ships is terrible, you cant buy it on steam or their website anymore, its considered abandonware at this point lol
You can only play it on big fish if you’ve bought it
I think Midnight In Salem and Labyrinth Of Lies are the worst! White Wolf and Ghost Dogs are actually among my favorites!
For white wolf of icicle creek AS SOMEONE FROM CALGARY lol For winter cabins I felt like the atmosphere was very accurate. The cooking was very very annoying though. I just cheated so I didn't have to do that part.
The birds and bugs brought Ghost Dogs down tremendously for me. Same with the chores in Shadow Ranch.
I totally agree with Labyrinth of Lies! There was almost no prompts on how to progress and it lacked puzzles. Also, that stage design... I can't wrap my head around WHY that area is WAY too large for a stage, for a museum, for anything! I got so hung up on why that area is huge for no reason I couldn't enjoy this mystery at all. For me, Shattered Medallion is the worst, then Labyrinth, THEN Ransom of the 7 ships. Also, the animation was awful in Kapu Cave. I was utterly distracted by Pua's face looking like a botched plastic surgery victim
I agree with most of the ones you've listed, except I do love Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake but I am biased because it was my first game. It would have been awesome if we were able to have multiple hauntings from the dogs. While MID for sure had it's problems I was more drawn to its storyline and atmosphere than the one in Creature of Kapu Cave.
My bottom five would definitely have Secret of the Scarlet Hand. I just can't with that one haha.
That one is waaaay too long! Once we get to the ham radio puzzle I’m totally tuned out lol
Okay so I did like the fact that Ransom had the return of a previous culprit HOWEVER it bothered me probably too much that the voice actor was different lol. *Culprit* from *previous game* had SUCH a distinctive voice that the new guy just wasn't cutting it lol.
Completely agree on Ghost Dogs, it’s actually in my bottom 5.
Twister I actually enjoy just because of the scenery and music and it being themed around Tornadoes🌪 Ransom I don’t mind either as a treasure hunt in beautiful scenery and El Toro’s story is kind of fun.
I place Alibi and Device in my bottom five as well. Alibi feels so disorganized and gives me anxiety with all the character switching and that darn map of the town where the map is a puzzle and trying to figure out where to go, and the car moving all over. Not a fan of character switching in general, plus the characters are my least favorite in the series (along with Device) and Nancy having to be in jail for the game? No way. 🕵🏼♀️
I'm dreading Alibi so much. I plan on playing them all, but I'm kinda procrastinating it purely because of the character swapping. It also has birds eye view movement... my least favorite features of Castle Malloy and Crystal Skull 😭
I totally agree with your worst four. For sure. I like ICE and TOT though. I would put Scarlet Hand down lower -I only like Henrick and all the phone call characters.
I'm still working my way through all the games, so I can't speak to your entire listing, but I DEFINITELY understand where you're coming from with White Wolf of Icicle Creek. Between the morning lodge tidying up and meal prep, I barely felt like I had time to focus on the mystery at hand. I actually had to stop maybe up to two-thirds of the way through when I tried playing it because of laptop issues, and I have not tried to pick it up once since that happened. The idea of starting over and doing all those darn chores again is just so off-putting, which is a shame, because I was enjoying the cozy, snowy atmosphere and learning about the wolf.
I actually like the cooking and maid chores lol. Definitely didn't like fox and geese or the ice fishing one. Fox and Geese is the main reason why I hardly every complete that game (yes, I've finished it a couple of times, but it's not as replayable start to end for me).
Honestly, I liked Lights, Cameras, Curses more than the other dossier game cuz of the setting & story line. They could've done more with it tho and made it feel more Nancy Drewish. Or even make a different game that was similar in the main line of games.
Personally, Midnight in Salem is higher on my list, but I respect why it's lower on your list and on a lot of others' lists.
The problem i have with ghost dogs of moon lake is that there are only 3 in person characters. Most of the conversations are on the phone.
Edit: and ghost dogs only attack once.
Shocked that Haunting of Castle Malloy didn’t make this list
I did enjoy Trail of the Twister though, only because we can drive like traffic laws never existed and the music was chill. But the endless chores, nope, lol.
I did like Ghost Dogs a lot but I think it's because of the theme
actually agree with your list. when i get the urge to replay all the games, these are the ones i generally skip, though i do have a soft spot for labyrinth of lies. so i just watch your replays instead of putting myself through playing them! far more entertaining that way!
I’ve never understood the love for Ghost Dogs, but I didn’t play it as a kid so I think I’m missing the nostalgia factor a lot of other fans have.
@@GraemeCree a lot of players seemed to have played this as their first game, so it is special to them.
Resorting to danger is worse than Lights, camera, curses and by alot repetive and don't even get me startted on the garden puzzle
White wolf of Icicle Creek. Damn it took me 4 tries just to finish this one off. I couldn’t beat fox and geese!! Just awful. Never played this again after beating it once.
I hated secret of the scarlet hand. But that could have been because I played it as a kid and it was a little too educational for my liking
I'm biased regarding White Wolf of Icicle Cteek because it was the first Her Interactive video game I happened to stumble across at my small public library no less. I absolutely love that game and play if often! Of course everyone is entitled to their opinion. :)
Interestingly enough the cooking in white wolf was one of my favorite parts.
My mom and I HATED Labyrinth of Lies from the beginning. The conversations are terrible and make zero sense. Shattered Medallion too.
I replayed White Wolf last year and I agree; it’s chore heavy; I really dislike the shoveling puzzle; not one of my favorites.
However I do like Tomb but I like the setting and the puzzles. I think the characters are weird
Okay I was kind of disagreeing with Labyrinth of Lies up until he said the characters say weird things. Okay, that is true, that is what made me think I just didn't understand people as a whole because the characters talked so cryptically and I just thought that was how normal people talked for the longest time
Ransom of the Seven Ships is the only game I have ever gotten all of the stars on Senior Detective without trying. So, I will always have a bit of love for it because of that, but I do largely agree with your points on it, it's not a very good game I'm just sentimental
Labyrinth of lies is one of my favs as well as Creature of kapu! Although I do agree that frass puzzle is horrid.
Tomb of the Lost Queen was my all time flop
I don't like The Wolf of Icicle Creek. I don't like the theater one. It was boring, and they won't let you climb into the closet until the exact moment.
The reason why I don't like The Wolf Creek one basically is if you go through it quickly in the beginning, it's hard to get that stupid clue from that idiot on the phone about the paprika. I just kept doing the same things over and over again. So, I watched AF's walkthrough to see who did it, and I thought, you have got to be kidding me. How farfetched.
I love White Wolf! But I don't understand why so many people complain about the chores, because I love them 🤣 but also, I didn't do cooking all the time? Like sometimes I just forgot and didn't care about it...and nothing happens? Was that just me?
You know what I hated about Ransom? When Nancy first realised the guy on the beach wasn't who he said he was, and he removed the wig and said he was actually a fugitive from Australia.
I gave HI a pass on the TERRIBLE accent he put on, because you could say he's an American just pretending to be an Australian, so of COURSE it's terrible and sounds nothing like what it's supposed to sound like. But the license Nancy found that made her realise he wasn't Jamaican? They used the imperial system for things like his height instead of the metric system. Two MAJOR problems with that:
1. Anyone not from the USA / anyone from the USA who isn't a moron immediately would've realised it was a fake, so the second big reveal that the Australian persona was also fake was ruined. First time playing this as an Aussie, I pegged straight away, big reveal ruined.
2. Either it was a mistake, meaning HI are morons who think a system used by literally only three countries is used by EVERY country, or it was deliberate to be some sort of secret Easter egg clue that the players would pick up but Nancy didn't - meaning they want us to believe that Nancy, who is probably one of the most well travelled teenagers in existance, wouldn't realise that almost everyone outside of the USA uses the metric system and therefore not get suspicious at the obvious fake.
I have strong feelings about this, in case you couldn't tell.
I mostly agree with the choices, but not the order. Midnight in Salem is the worst and is absolute garbage considering the TIME people had to wait for it. Kapu, Ghost Dogs, Twister, Ransom are totally forgettable. Labyrinth, Tomb, and Medallion are all such chores to slog through. At least Tomb is pretty.
Blue Moon Canyon and White Wolf are the games that sucked me into Nancy Drew and the other Her games, but I agree WW is meh. I enjoy the setting, but the fact that you can go the ENTIRE game without talking to the culprit and another guest really kills it. Cooking, though, is not that hard! Every meal had a "slap it on the grill and serve it up" option and/or a more complex food. My sister and I knocked out cooking in a couple minutes each time by memorizing the quantity of each ingredient and just going down the line of ingredients. Now i really want salmon and salad....
If you like a Google Maps Streetview or Geoguessr - you would like a ND: Midnight(mare) in Salem. But only if you ready to "very interesting dialogues". And for a lot zoomies back and forward... And for some really bad graphics...
And graphics, tho. I mean, ND series not so "ideal" in graphics part, but other games have some aesthetics. And even kinda photorealism sometimes, which works nice. But that typical Unity engine graphics. Its just really hurts. Just try "low" settings. Its terrible
9:43 YEAH! Exactly so ! If this game didn't have any culprit - its actually can be better. Although... Sunny June exists. And Patrick too... So, yep. Its total disaster.
Lol, about the talking in Midnight in Salem, the new adventure games in general has a lot of talking. I never played the last Nancy Drew (because my computer is too slow), but I can say that there is a lot of games with talkings these days, like St Kotar, Sinking city, etc. I kind of liking it. It feels more alive from my point of view...
Ransom and Shattered Medallions were such big disappointments. I remember really looking forward to both(especially Shattered Medallion because Sonny Joon). I have to say Midnight in Salem has to be the worst of the worst for me tho. Years later I still can't believe its a Nancy Drew game. Every messed up thing that happened up until its release set the tone for it too unfortunately.
11. Disagree, though Fox and Geese is annoying, but I think every game has one component I don’t like
10. Strongly disagree and personally offended, one of my favorites
9. Agree, definitely not a favorite
8. I see your point, not bad for first game
7. Strongly Agree. This one is probably in my top 3 least favorites
6. Strongly Disagree, and again, I’m personally offended by this one, it’s a favorite of mine, but I love anything to do with ancient Egypt, so I might be biased
5. Agree. Not much else to say
4. Agree, this one was a bit of a mess. Alibi in Ashes pulled off the switching aspect WAY better.
3. This game needed to be a lot better just because of the literal years we had to wait for it. Didn’t like Nancy’s new voice either.
2. I have a weird relationship with this game. Sometimes I love it, sometimes I hate it. Depends on my mood.
1. Agree, only played this one once, barely remember it, that tells me something right there.
White Wolf is one of my favorites 😂
I agree with all of your choices, except I actually like Ghost Dogs and White Wolf. I would swap those ones for Secret of the Old Clock and Phantom of Venice (gasp!) because I felt like those ones were discombobulated and too long. Otherwise you’re spot on.
Lol Your fine with me Michael.....White wolf only caught my attention cause it had the word WOLF in it....white wolf is my spirit animal.....
-clears throat- You DISSING MY FAV BREED OF DOG?!?!?! gameplay yes but you dissing the DOGS?!?! -huff -
no i love tomb of the lost queen! i found it really fun and super interesting. people say its too similar to scarlet hand but i really like the museum and learning vibes of it.
There are white people in Jamaica by the way, especially in Kingston where "Johnny Rolle" is supposed to be from. I always thought that was the premise of Dwayne's disguise and was surprised to learn people thought he was pretending to be black.
Certain people want to be victims or establish victim status of others based on the level of melanin in someone's body that then mirrors differently for different people on their epidermis.
I always assumed that as well
That would have made more sense, however, Her Interactive admitted he was in blackface the entire game so..
@@Meashayshay2 Could you perhaps find a video of him doing so and leave the link and timestamp? If so, I'll admit I'm wrong.
@@Meashayshay2 Oh wait, you mean Her Interactive admitted it? Wow, that stuns me.
most of these were the later ones. wasn't sure if it as just me or that i was getting older
I literally wasted my money playing Wolf of icicle creek because I couldn't beat the dumb mine sweeper game ugh I was like 10 and saved up.
Aww I liked White Wolf! Though admittedly it wasn't one of the best ones...same goes for Ghost Dogs, it was kinda lame in comparison but I still really liked it partly for nostalgia reasons. If I were to rank my top 5 worst games it would be Midnight in Salem, Labryinth of Lies, The Shattered Medallion, Stayed Tuned for Danger, and the Legend of the Crystal Skull.
I agree with Trail of the twister. I thought about that game recently fondly and returned to play it and it was just… not as good as I remembered, it involved a lot of Nancy floundering (at least me as Nancy lol) it was like RIGHT THERE like they almost had it. I actually really liked the characters but I wanted more.
I think what makes some of them bad to me is the newer games with the new interface. I liked the first few games, rather then the ones later on.
Yes, the newer interface is very jarring and is almost more problematic than it is worth.
I'm not sure I'd rate Ransom as the worst. But at the same time every time I played if I found myself bored and frustrated. I can't really decide if I like any game less.
I loved shattered medallion
Am I the only person who hates Secret of the Old Clock? The driving chore makes me want to break my computer
Do you have a video with your top favorite games?
i recently played all of the games during a long depressive episode so some of them were tainted by how i was feeling that particular day, but i did realize i like a lot of the ones other folks really hate 😅
i have a fondness for salem even though it is objectively pretty awful. it was the first nd game i played back when it came out so i was taking it as a talky adventure game rather than the puzzle game it should have been. also i'm a huge deirdre apologist
I can understand what you're saying about Ghost Dogs. However, it was my first and I think it's a great starter game (chores exist and are annoying, amount of puzzles and difficulty was just right). This is like me really disliking Curse of Blackmoor Manor, people love that one and I just really don't enjoy it at all after multiple playthroughs
I like Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake but yes I agree that The Bird and Bug parts ,could have eliminated and changed to something much more exciting like Nancy gets some Ghost Hunting Gadgets and has to go into The Woods at Night to look for The Ghost Dogs and there definitely needed to be A Game over Screen if The Ghosts Dogs attacking Nancy even though Yes I know that there are actually real Dogs in The Game that Emily is using so She get Her Hands on Mickey's Treasure
I did not like labyrinth of lies. It didnt connect with me at all. Also MID was not even mid... It was terrible
The tomb of the lost queen has one of the most fun mini games, i LOVE Egyptian senet i even bought a different game on steam that was just senet
I actually quite like Trail of the Twister and Ghost Dogs. Everything else I agree with though
YES
I love the beard!
From the beginning of the vid to end:
11- I think it’s cozy, I like it but I don’t like the culprit or the chores
10- haven’t played it enough to really care about it
9- it’s alright but Red is annoying I agree with the not finished thing
8- I hate this one a lot tbh. The characters are bad and the remastered is worse
7- I forget it’s a game. It’s just weird
6- was never a fan, it’s boring
5- never played the dossiers
4- HORRIBLE
3- surprised it’s not #1 but the story isn’t too bad tbh, I just don’t like the graphics
2- horrible game and concept
1- never liked that one
My #1 is Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon. That game makes me cringe. I like the scenery but the characters kill me
While I agree about the characters, Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon is actually one of my top (not my top) favorite games in the series.I usually try to interact with the characters as less as possible but solving the puzzles on the train, the history and character of Jake Hurley, and the small town I found to be really fun!
I love this rank video it's just as good as your everything wrongs 😆
Damn 11
People who get mad at you are stupid. You are totally right with some of these they are horrible. But like it’s also a preference in things. Like I love white wolf of icicle creek and fox and geese.
I don't remember you being this frustrated over bad Nancy Drew games compared to ten years ago. Maybe you lack patience because you just outgrew the series in general. Perhaps two of the games were A-level, but most were average except five which were not worth the time.
You are a guy! What do you really know!