#Mystery of the Seven Keys

[elliotchen-apologist]

mystery of the seven keys: loading screens

[bloody-icecream]

Me in twenty days… if you even care 💔🥀🪦

[naancypants]

I thought it was odd that HeR picked such a specific time for the trailer premiere... then I remembered that they're on the west coast, which means for them it was 7:34

7 keys, 34th game

They probably thought that was so clever jshdjxsj

[papenniesandbentoboxes]

[gentlemenprefergirlbloggers]

Hello clue crew! It's one of my goals to go to all the places Nancy's been to in the series (which I'll probably fail at), so I made a bucketlist for me and my boyfriend, which we ordered from places we want to go to the most to the least. Thought I'd share!

[sassydetectivespodcast]

need a man like him

[henrikvanderswoon]

nancy absolutely bookin it in this game

[francie-froo]

OMGEVSVSHDH

[hidden-clue]

more nitpicks over The Seven Keys (mild spoilers, mentions of getting stuck):

When a puzzle annoys me or exhausts my mental capabilities, I need to be able to walk away, play a mini game, cool off, annoy some characters, then come back and work on it with a fresh outlook on the world. Except in this game when I try, the doors are LOCKED, I am TRAPPED with an impossible PUZZLE that won't let me WALK AWAY the crystal puzzle got to me okay that wasn't good for my self esteem

I got STUCK for HOURS because in the real life, when you get a piece of paper, with a handwritten web address on it, you can't just click on it, because it's HANDWRITTEN. on a PAPER. you can't hand me a LINK on a piece of paper. So HOW was I to understand that if I click on a piece of paper, it would open a website on my phone?? On what grounds? I was looking for a freaking computer, trying to steal the one someone left in the cafe trying to reach this freaking website because my phone didn't even offer a browser or any browsing options (which, it would have been so helpful if it had!) because there was no indication my phone could even open a web address, there was certainly no way to open any kind of browser or internet app. There were no signs!!!! I thought the game was bugged!!!

they won't let me CALL PEOPLE WHEN I WANT. All phone calls are timed! Even text messages! Even NED won't pick up unless it's important for the plot in that moment for me to have a conversation with him! Also I assume they couldn't get the voice for Carson in the game even though he was necessary for the plot so they play it like he's too busy to talk to Nancy but not to busy to relay all messages trough Ned which is difficult to believe, just have him TEXT NANCY. And let me call my friends at me leisure!!! Maybe I wanna chat about my day!!! Maybe I wanna ask them what they're up to! If I want to make a call I don't want to hear Nancy say 'it's not the right time' IT'S THE RIGHT TIME WHEN I SAY SO

since I'm complaining about calls and texts, they're triggered by absolutely nonsensical triggers. For example, you can't get Ned to text you back until you pick up the alchemy book in the cafe. The game can't progress until you do get that text, but you won't, unless you know specifically to go to the cafe, browse all of the bookcases which there are many of, and pick up inconspicious brown book.  Is this Stay Tuned For Danger again? I thought we learned this lesson before? Don't make the triggers ridiculous so people don't get stuck forever without understanding what they did wrong? Everyone is referencing STFD too, it's like they went back to that game and decided 'we need more like this'. The game at one point tells you to grab a laptop charger, and then if you haven't talked to the repair-shop owner, you can't pick up the charger from the cafe. On what logic? How would you know thats what you need to do in order to extend your hand a grab a physical object in front of you? It's nonsense.

I am in love with the environment, so much so that I explored every nook and cranny, every detail, and the copy-pasting of elements is killing me. I was so damn excited to enter the puppet repair shop and see all of the old-timey radios, tape recorders, video recorders, telephones, until I realized they copied each one of them about 3-4 times, and it's not even like they're next to each other like they're being sold, they're scattered to make clutter. And okay fne I would forgive them that. But THEN they also copied all of the tools from that shop, directly into the Marionette Theater, which, why would all that be there? Identical tool board but apparently Radek doesn't fix those dolls. Why does he have a saw? And then, as if this wasn't an insult enough, there was an identical SAW in the EXHIBIT. How do you expect me to suspend my disbelief there HER interactive? You couldn't find a way to create different clutter so you put a copy of the SAW in the CASTLE EXHIBIT? It didn't even belong there it was just there to make clutter! I am literally trying to figure out if this is something that has plot reasons or it was just randomly done with no thought to it, just for visual clutter reasons. My love of exploring has come back to hurt me.

[lickieloo]

The actual outdoor clock in KEY suggests that the game takes place in May!

And Leo's calendar suggests it's around the 15th since we know he was supposed to leave for his conference! So mid-May game if anyone was wondering!

[henrikvanderhussy]

me, trying to solve the safe on junior detective

[elliotchen-apologist]

nancy when she needed to open super confidential file and was given USED laptop by a hacker girl and then used PUBLIC wifi to download it

[thenancydrewtimes]

THIS IS HUGE!!!!! Ever since the release of MID, fans were split on navigation, but now… YOU CAN CHOOSE! Yes! In a press release on Newswire, it was revealed that for the first time in a ND game, fans can choose the style of navigation. Thank you @tori_nd_piano for bringing this to our attention on our trailer stream from a couple days ago!!!! 🤯🤯🤯

[naancypants]

It still sends me that HeR marketed Radek as some kind of conventional dreamy heartthrob... like your honor that is the nerdiest, silliest, most awkward, neurodivergent little guy I've ever seen in a Nancy Drew game bdjxjxbxj. And I love him

[papenniesandbentoboxes]

[naancydrew]

the cast of mystery of the seven keys