#anyway i need to draw The Doods too all of them all the homies

[ofcowardiceandkings]

need to collect some sketch ideas for totk character revisits

[thugnan]

Secrets Can Kill (PC 1998)

Remember opinions are subjective :)

Story: 5/10

Characters: 4/10

Puzzles: 4/10

Chores: 4/10

Final Rating: 4/10

This game plays more like a flash escape game, and I don’t mind that, it's just not your typical ND game. Less puzzle driven and more looking at books driven. Some of the hidden word play seem like red herrings instead of anything useful, if you don’t let that distract you you can get through the game pretty quickly. This is a lot darker than the rest of the games, I mean most of them have murder obviously, but Nancy almost kills a bitch with A GUN son. Nancy a THUG. Some of the stuff isn’t as straightforward. If Ned hadn’t told me to use the box cutter on the window I would have never gotten into the teacher’s lounge.  

Plot (spoilers obviously):

First of all, I gotta say COLLEGE IS A SCAM. These teens are getting involved in sketchy af shit in order to go to college. I’m just saying bro, selling drugs is gonna make u more money than an actual degree. You already took the risk of stealing the shit once, might as well keep going 8D (joking mostly)

The story starts with a kid named Jake. Jake is a kid at El Paso High School who straight up got yeeted down a flight of stairs. I’m going to tell you now that I was all up in this school’s business and I did not see a flight of stairs that was tall enough to kill anyone but okay sure. 

Naturally when a death murder occurs at a school, the first thing you think about is transferring your niece to said school and to ask her to shove her nose in everyone’s personal life. This is where homie girl Thug Nan comes in.

When you get to El Paso, you meet 3 of the loveliest people (seriously why are they so agro?). They go from “Hi you’re new, let me show you around.” to “LEAVE ME ALONE.” in less than 3 pieces of dialogue. 

Connie: This Judo gal who be crushing on Daryl is sketchy from the first conversation. But at least she doesn’t pretend to like me, and I can respect that.

Hal: Your stereotypical asian foreign exchange student with zero personality. He gotta study or his ass gonna be deported. Doesn’t have time for friendships.

Hank: Hal and Hank were confusing for me to keep track of. This guy was your stereotypical jock football player dood. Roid rage.

“Allegedly” none of these people know Jake, but quickly enough we learn that everyone in this school is a friggin liar. But first we gotta go to Maxine’s Diner to meet our 4th suspect.

Daryl: This perfect class president, son of a politician, hometown boy, ruse does not fool me. This boy is my no. 1 suspect, he’s very eager to help, and honestly his smile just creeps me out. 

After getting the tea from everyone and breaking into Jake’s locker (I wouldn’t have figured that out without Ned ngl) you discover:

Connie was apparently being hustled by Jake because home girl went all Mulan in a Judo competition to get money for college (okay i can’t hate that). EXCEPT you also learn that Connie was also dating Jake (b i t c h i don’t know him my ass).

Hal copied a book word for word instead of writing an essay himself. Jake discovered this and was blackmailing this boy too. Smh Hal, you coulda at least changed some of the words.

Compared to the other two, Hank is hardcore, he straight up stole steroids from a pharmaceutical lab. His reason for this is that he needed to play good for scouts, something something about college. Jake be hustlin him too, but tbh Hank u had it coming. 

Daryl’s fam is basically in financial ruin, he be running mysterious “packages” to shady af people for money. Oh I guess his fam owns the pharmaceutical lab Hank stole from or something. It’s not entirely made clear but that’s the impression I got.

Anyway, Jake was blackmailing Daryl, and when he wasn’t paying up, he moved on to the dude Daryl was delivering packages for, who straight up MURDERED him. Idk why Daryl didn’t go to the police, but maybe he was scared of being yeeted down a flight of stairs too.

OH! And then I think this same guy happens to be the school janitor? Which makes sense because why else would a fully grown adult male be able to lurk around a school without drawing suspicion. That, and someone traps Nancy in the boiler room in an attempt to BLOW HER UP, I can only assume that it was someone with access to the room. 

Daryl tho,  mans the faq up, and is like “instead of going to the police with this info, lets go ask the janitor politely if/why he killed Jake?” I didn’t understand his logic, but I sure thought it was cute that he left a note on the diner that said ‘BRB GONNA GO CONFRONT A MURDER WILL BE BACK IN 10 MIN IF I DON’T DIE’.

Instead of you know, calling the police, Nancy decides to endanger the life of others by trying to get the other high schoolers to team up and confront Jake’s killer. At this point, Hal and Hank are both dead to me, because only Connie shows up and kicks all kinds of ass. Hal I hope you fail out of Medical school, and Hank I hope u peak in high school, sincerely, me. Nancy ends up with the janitor’s gun (he has a name but idc enough to remember), but is too much of a wuss to use it. Way to let everyone down Thug Nan.

I guess Daryl and Connie bonded over being extorted cause they get into a car and drive off into the sunset, THE END.