He shows all the symptoms of OCD, from arranging the items on his desk in a certain order to (allegedly) alphabetizing the ingredients for a sandwich before making said sandwich. Can also apply to Mason from The Deadly Device.Ambiguous Disorder: Rentaro in the Shadow at the Water's Edge is socially awkward, and even lampshades this by saying that he works with machines because they tolerate awkwardness.Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: The multicolored glowing cave lizards from Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon.Always Close: After completing the last challenge in The Silent Spy, the following cutscene shows that Nancy defused the bomb at the very last second, regardless of how much time you actually had left.For those of you too young to remember, they actually didn't look the way they do now until the late 90's. In Stay Tuned for Danger, Millie sometimes says "Don't take any wooden nickels, young lady!" This may seem like a Non Sequitur, but it actually isn't.
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Believe it or not, people have hidden treasures and written cryptic riddles as to how to find it.The teaser for Midnight in Salem now has her desperately asking you for help. Downplayed in her reappearance (well, just as a phone contact) in The Deadly Device. Deidre Shannon in Alibi in Ashes is another example.Leela Yadav comes pretty close, too, but she is shown to be an otherwise nice girl (if not a tad obnoxious). Warnings at Waverly Academy's Izzy Romero acts like one to her fellow students.You have to break into a locked room the same way in Treasure in the Royal Tower.And you might even find out you weren't the first to go that way. You have to escape a locked room this way in The Deadly Device.Air-Vent Passageway: You use these to get into or out of locked rooms on a couple of occasions:.Adventure Game: Except for the Dossier spin-offs, all these games are played in a first-person perspective, similar to Myst.Adaptational Villainy: To keep things interesting for people who read the books, the culprits will potentially be changed, making the new culprit a formerly Nice Guy and the old culprit genuinely nice.
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Even better, in Secret of the Old Clock, the 1930s phone numbers start with "KL5", which converts to 555. 555: To the point where it's lampshaded ("Why does everyone's phone number begin with five five five?").Big Fish Games also has all releases from 2000-2014 (including the Dossiers).įor trope sheets on individual games, see the recap page. Most of the games are available on Steam note Except for Stay Tuned For Danger, and a digital version of The Curse Of Blackmoor Manor is now available on GOG.com. Two additional games with a less immersive format Lights, Camera, Curses! and Resorting To Danger have been released under the "Nancy Drew Dossier" heading. Secrets Can Kill (1998 rereleased in a Remastered version in 2010).