Congratulations on 15 years! It's crazy to think that it has been that long! Sorry to date you but I started watching your Nancy Drew videos when I was a kid in elementary school and recently I graduated college. Thank you for being such a wholesome part of my life!
Crazy that it's been 15 years! I remember being in 4th grade watching your videos (I vividly remember the minigolf scene from Secret of the Old Clock) and now I'm in college!
I’ve been here since you were in the seminary, watched you leave the seminary, date Katie and become a pseudo-step-dad to Mary, marry Katie and become an ACTUAL step-dad, and seen you become a father to Rosie too!!! You’ve grown so much, and so have we! Thanks for being a constant through it all 🥹
Alibi in Ashes did a really good job at making my blood boil when I was in junior high. I’ve calmed down significantly since then and I suppose the plot of the game is decent. But personally, I would’ve preferred a story where Nancy uncovers some corruption/scandal in the River Heights police force. I mean think about it: 1. An innocent civilian is arrested on false charges, 2. Everyone on the force seems to turn a blind eye to Toni and Brenda despite their obviously suspicious behavior and shady history. 3. Chief MGuiness hires a ten-year-old detective to do work for him. Do these not sound like big ol’ red flags? Love your vids BTW
Your videos have helped me through some of the toughest times of my life Michael. I've been watching your videos for 12 years now, since I was 15. I hope you are doing ok and recovering well. I miss your live streams but I also understand how hard they are.
FIFTEEN YEARS, wow, I remember watching your first playlist of Secret of Shadow Ranch when I was in 7th grade and I'm almost 26 now. Congrats, thanks for many years of ND!
Phantom of Venice easily could have had everyone as the culprit each playing different roles. The story would need to be modified of course to involve Colin and margarita a bit more but it would have been interesting
this was fun. Thank you for the review video! Your voice acting is great :D. Agreed about Andy having terrible planning lol. He could have just knocked Nancy into the waters....
Congratulations on 15 years and thank you for all your walkthrough videos! They’ve always been my go to for whenever I got stuck or needed a good laugh.
I am incredibly impressed you did all of that without notes. Even down to the order of the games. Bravo. Also, I think it would have worked if all the girls of Waverly were at fault. They did it a little, but if they had really leaned into it, it could have been cool. They wouldn't even have to all be in on it together. They know what they did, but not anyone else. Or they could all be in it together as part of the secret society thing 🤷🏻♀️
yup i love that elliot chen was the culprit in the haunted carousel it was also the first game i actually got to play to the end my first 2 games i played i didn't get to the end cuz one i was playing with a best friend who became my ex-best friend in like the middle of the game and also the game cd-rom started glitching and not working right and then the 2nd was too scary for me so i didn't play it and then i found the haunted carousel and started loving it and then i got stuck and found your walkthru for it which is how i came upon your channel and this was back in i believe 2009 maybe?! i had a different channel then tho and that channel got hacked and deleted so it's not longer subscribed to you, but this new one i'm on since 2015 is subbed and i still love watching your walkthrus just for fun so i can see other nancy drew or mystery games that don't require internet to play them i really live for that because when i would visit my grandparents i could bring a cd-rom and play it while my parents talked with my grandparents and not be bored and you helped out so much on the games i played of nancy drew i'm thankful i found you cuz i would get stuck alot in the haunted carousel and treasure in the royal tower ;) you're awesome michael to make these walkthrus and other videos, keep it up buddy!
I'm a little late to the party, but congratulations on 15 years! That's amazing! I love your Nancy Drew videos and I'm glad to see that you're still making ND content.
I think danger by design could’ve been interesting if dieter and minette had been working together and he was playing up their breakup to divert attention from that. I actually like sympathetic villains, but I do wish they’d do more endings like stay tuned for danger where Nancy got to guess who the culprit was and give her reasoning
The idea with Louis Chandler is that he got Nancy kicked out, not for looking at a book in a library, but for looking at a book that was locked in his briefcase. This is supposed to prove that Nancy broke into his briefcfase, which is sort of a good idea... But not really. Even if he's had that book in his case since the game started, how can he know that no other book in the library mentions it? Or that Nancy, perennial snoop that she is, didn't learn it somewhere else. I guess the idea is that he's paranoid so he assumes she MUST have broken into his briefcase, even if the evidence doesn't quite prove that. So that works... Except that he also has to convince Rose that Nancy broke into his briefcase. It's a little dubious, but it's such a minor problem, easily avoided, or Second Chanced, that it doesn't hurt much.
My reading of the Louis puzzle is that Louis was paranoid, and took Nancy's statement as proof that Nancy broke into his briefcase. And, although the evidence doesn't quite prove that, he told Rose, Rose asked Nancy, and Nancy told the truth rather than lie about it.
Silent Spy was probably one of the hardest plots to follow in the ND series… all to lead to a bad culprit reveal. Puzzles were complicated, story lines jumped back and forth from past to present, and (like Michael said) the culprit reveal didn’t really do anything
I thought that Jane was the appropriate culprit for the Clock story. After all, when you’re dealing with missing jewelry, she is the best culprit out of the characters available. It wouldn’t make sense for Mr Topham to have stollen her jewelry, since he already owns everything he could possibly want. Jane, however, does seem to be the appropriate villain, especially with nothing violent ever happening in the story. I will say that the banker would pose as an interesting villain, with his bank becoming bankrupt. It would have been interesting to see him turn into the villain and stealing the jewelry once his bank funds were becoming low. However, once he made himself out to be a friendly banker, it had to be Jane.
Okay, here’s the thing about the Haunting of Castle Malloy: if Donal was the culprit, it would not have gone down well. Ireland and England have a dark history- England had used Ireland as a bread basket for centuries and the English government is in large part to blame for the devastation of the potato famine. Donal has lived through Ireland fighting tooth and nail for its freedom, for its independence. His dislike for Matt is to make us aware of that bloody history. I think it would have been upsetting for Irish fans- myself an Irish American- if Donal were made the culprit. It would been all because of his resentment toward the English in general as opposed to any real personal issues with Matt. It’s really complicated, and having Fiona be the culprit because she’s a confused old woman is honestly for the best. She didn’t see an English man, all she saw was a person to be around.
I thought message in a haunted mansion initially had 3 culprits. Abby, Charlie and Louis. So all but one. I thought those 3 were working together to get the mansions $1 million insurance, or just the mansion itself. I figured they hoped the ghost would scare rose running out of the mansion only to never return so then they could have it for themselves, then start the fire so they could receive the insurance and split it.
I feel like in SCK and SCK Remastered, if we exclude Mitch Dillon and Detective Beech, all 4 students could have been the culprits. I think this would have been a really cool ending, especially for SCK Remastered. Also in Curse of Blackmoor Manor, I feel like Jane and Ethel could have both been the culprit.
Live commenting reactions: 👏 Joseph👏 had👏 dementia and no one can change my mind. And Louis gets Nancy kicked out bc she broke into his briefcase to find the book that he (admittedly) stole.
Carousel: Elliot does say it that angrily! "And don't come back until joy trent calls me!" Lol. And deception Island had honestly the best red herring, I was surprised a bit.
I think the ND games had a bit of a run where the character you have least reason to interact with is the culprit lol (Lewis, Lisa, Yanni…) It made it really predictable lol.
Lisa just lies about not knowing Spanish ahahahhahaa. I think Joseph in Final Scene is a great culprit, he's three dimensional as a character. It's not easy writing sympathetic culprits. But he's definitely not a proper villain
they could have done so much more with culprit in secret's can kill remastered they could have given some connection and motive to the culprit as it was, it was just stupid...
Thank you for continuing to give us ND content you are single-handedly keeping the franchise alive🙏🏾
Feels like the Clue Crew is slowly becoming sleeper agents ready to reactivate at the hint of a new ND game
Kyler (Haunting of Castle Malloy) couldn't be the villain because she would have had to get up out of her chair for a change 🤣
Congratulations on 15 years! It's crazy to think that it has been that long!
Sorry to date you but I started watching your Nancy Drew videos when I was a kid in elementary school and recently I graduated college.
Thank you for being such a wholesome part of my life!
51:31 "...a gift basket doesn't cut it KAREN!" 😂😅😂 So true! haha
Crazy that it's been 15 years! I remember being in 4th grade watching your videos (I vividly remember the minigolf scene from Secret of the Old Clock) and now I'm in college!
I’ve been here since you were in the seminary, watched you leave the seminary, date Katie and become a pseudo-step-dad to Mary, marry Katie and become an ACTUAL step-dad, and seen you become a father to Rosie too!!! You’ve grown so much, and so have we! Thanks for being a constant through it all 🥹
I read somewhere that Lewis Chandler sounds super similar to loose chandelier, and I thought that was pretty neat
15? That's fantastic! Love your channel. Keep up the good work, you make many people so happy with your videos!
Omg your quotes from the games and your character impressions are so spot on 😂❤ my entire childhood in one video this is absolutely fantastic content
I’m going to need that Tino Balducci painting video asap
Alibi in Ashes did a really good job at making my blood boil when I was in junior high. I’ve calmed down significantly since then and I suppose the plot of the game is decent. But personally, I would’ve preferred a story where Nancy uncovers some corruption/scandal in the River Heights police force. I mean think about it:
1. An innocent civilian is arrested on false charges,
2. Everyone on the force seems to turn a blind eye to Toni and Brenda despite their obviously suspicious behavior and shady history.
3. Chief MGuiness hires a ten-year-old detective to do work for him.
Do these not sound like big ol’ red flags?
Love your vids BTW
Everytime I see you post, I have to watch! Thank you for keeping the Nancy Drew games alive ❤
Your videos have helped me through some of the toughest times of my life Michael. I've been watching your videos for 12 years now, since I was 15. I hope you are doing ok and recovering well. I miss your live streams but I also understand how hard they are.
🎉🎉🎉congrats on 15 years🎉🎉
Happy 15 years!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻 I have watched you since I was 10 years old. 😊
i’ve been watching your videos for probably 13 years now :) your channel has been such a big part of my life!!
FIFTEEN YEARS, wow, I remember watching your first playlist of Secret of Shadow Ranch when I was in 7th grade and I'm almost 26 now. Congrats, thanks for many years of ND!
Phantom of Venice easily could have had everyone as the culprit each playing different roles. The story would need to be modified of course to involve Colin and margarita a bit more but it would have been interesting
I just have a really hard time thinking of a motivation for Margarita. It’s really hard to imagine her as a culprit. However, it could work.
LMAO @ Alibi in Ashes - A gift basket doesn't cut it Karen! Congrats on the 15!
Please rank game characters next!!
Thank you, thank you, thank Michael! Your channel has been an absolute favorite of mine over the years.
Happy 15 years!! 🍾 That means I've been watching your videos for half of my life 🙌 thank you!!
Congrats Michael! I binge your content frequently. :)
Gosh I’m so sad that I only found you about 4 years ago. I missed out on so much!
Love your ND vids! A member of your beloved Nancy Drew Clue Crew.
this was fun. Thank you for the review video! Your voice acting is great :D. Agreed about Andy having terrible planning lol. He could have just knocked Nancy into the waters....
Congratulations on 15 years and thank you for all your walkthrough videos! They’ve always been my go to for whenever I got stuck or needed a good laugh.
your iconic everything wrong with nancy drew is my go to bingewatch series
I am incredibly impressed you did all of that without notes. Even down to the order of the games. Bravo.
Also, I think it would have worked if all the girls of Waverly were at fault. They did it a little, but if they had really leaned into it, it could have been cool. They wouldn't even have to all be in on it together. They know what they did, but not anyone else.
Or they could all be in it together as part of the secret society thing 🤷🏻♀️
Happy channel anniversary!!
Congrats on 15 years!! I've always enjoyed your videos and hope you continue making more great videos!
Great video Michael ! I can listen to you talk about anything Nancy Drew related for hours on end :D
crazy how you were the first youtuber i ever watched and how i started watching when i was 7
Realizing I’ve been watching these videos for more than 15 years…
yup i love that elliot chen was the culprit in the haunted carousel it was also the first game i actually got to play to the end my first 2 games i played i didn't get to the end cuz one i was playing with a best friend who became my ex-best friend in like the middle of the game and also the game cd-rom started glitching and not working right and then the 2nd was too scary for me so i didn't play it and then i found the haunted carousel and started loving it and then i got stuck and found your walkthru for it which is how i came upon your channel and this was back in i believe 2009 maybe?! i had a different channel then tho and that channel got hacked and deleted so it's not longer subscribed to you, but this new one i'm on since 2015 is subbed and i still love watching your walkthrus just for fun so i can see other nancy drew or mystery games that don't require internet to play them i really live for that because when i would visit my grandparents i could bring a cd-rom and play it while my parents talked with my grandparents and not be bored and you helped out so much on the games i played of nancy drew i'm thankful i found you cuz i would get stuck alot in the haunted carousel and treasure in the royal tower ;) you're awesome michael to make these walkthrus and other videos, keep it up buddy!
I'm a little late to the party, but congratulations on 15 years! That's amazing!
I love your Nancy Drew videos and I'm glad to see that you're still making ND content.
I think danger by design could’ve been interesting if dieter and minette had been working together and he was playing up their breakup to divert attention from that. I actually like sympathetic villains, but I do wish they’d do more endings like stay tuned for danger where Nancy got to guess who the culprit was and give her reasoning
The idea with Louis Chandler is that he got Nancy kicked out, not for looking at a book in a library, but for looking at a book that was locked in his briefcase. This is supposed to prove that Nancy broke into his briefcfase, which is sort of a good idea...
But not really. Even if he's had that book in his case since the game started, how can he know that no other book in the library mentions it? Or that Nancy, perennial snoop that she is, didn't learn it somewhere else. I guess the idea is that he's paranoid so he assumes she MUST have broken into his briefcase, even if the evidence doesn't quite prove that. So that works... Except that he also has to convince Rose that Nancy broke into his briefcase. It's a little dubious, but it's such a minor problem, easily avoided, or Second Chanced, that it doesn't hurt much.
My reading of the Louis puzzle is that Louis was paranoid, and took Nancy's statement as proof that Nancy broke into his briefcase. And, although the evidence doesn't quite prove that, he told Rose, Rose asked Nancy, and Nancy told the truth rather than lie about it.
Congratulations on 15 years!
Seeing Corine Myers kicked out of Waverly is pretty satisfying
I know I'm late but imagine if Game 20 brought back several villains as suspects but only one of them was the culprit.
Who else thinks that Michael should be a voice actor in a new Nancy Drew game?? Lol
Silent Spy was probably one of the hardest plots to follow in the ND series… all to lead to a bad culprit reveal. Puzzles were complicated, story lines jumped back and forth from past to present, and (like Michael said) the culprit reveal didn’t really do anything
About Louis Chandler, it wasn't her looking at a book specifically it was that she broke into his suitcase to get the book.
Happy UA-cam-versary!
Jeselyn didn't really fake kidnap herself--she just went missing, and no one thought she would freak her family out by leaving.
I thought that Jane was the appropriate culprit for the Clock story. After all, when you’re dealing with missing jewelry, she is the best culprit out of the characters available. It wouldn’t make sense for Mr Topham to have stollen her jewelry, since he already owns everything he could possibly want. Jane, however, does seem to be the appropriate villain, especially with nothing violent ever happening in the story. I will say that the banker would pose as an interesting villain, with his bank becoming bankrupt. It would have been interesting to see him turn into the villain and stealing the jewelry once his bank funds were becoming low. However, once he made himself out to be a friendly banker, it had to be Jane.
Okay, here’s the thing about the Haunting of Castle Malloy: if Donal was the culprit, it would not have gone down well.
Ireland and England have a dark history- England had used Ireland as a bread basket for centuries and the English government is in large part to blame for the devastation of the potato famine. Donal has lived through Ireland fighting tooth and nail for its freedom, for its independence. His dislike for Matt is to make us aware of that bloody history.
I think it would have been upsetting for Irish fans- myself an Irish American- if Donal were made the culprit. It would been all because of his resentment toward the English in general as opposed to any real personal issues with Matt.
It’s really complicated, and having Fiona be the culprit because she’s a confused old woman is honestly for the best. She didn’t see an English man, all she saw was a person to be around.
I thought message in a haunted mansion initially had 3 culprits. Abby, Charlie and Louis. So all but one. I thought those 3 were working together to get the mansions $1 million insurance, or just the mansion itself. I figured they hoped the ghost would scare rose running out of the mansion only to never return so then they could have it for themselves, then start the fire so they could receive the insurance and split it.
Great video Michael! Also where did you get the awesome Stay Tuned for Danger statue on your desk?
Thanks for the shout out!
I feel like in SCK and SCK Remastered, if we exclude Mitch Dillon and Detective Beech, all 4 students could have been the culprits. I think this would have been a really cool ending, especially for SCK Remastered. Also in Curse of Blackmoor Manor, I feel like Jane and Ethel could have both been the culprit.
You tackled this video with the autistic prowess of a savant. Your recollection is remarkable.
Live commenting reactions: 👏 Joseph👏 had👏 dementia and no one can change my mind. And Louis gets Nancy kicked out bc she broke into his briefcase to find the book that he (admittedly) stole.
Carousel: Elliot does say it that angrily! "And don't come back until joy trent calls me!" Lol. And deception Island had honestly the best red herring, I was surprised a bit.
Shadow Ranch is my second fave bc horses ❤️ but I love the whole story. I did read the book though so I had an idea how it would go.
For Blackmoor I think Ethel would be the best alternative. But to me Jane makes some sense, I'll bet Linda is much younger than Jane's mom 👀
My favorite part of minette is the Sonny Joon tattoo lol
Kapu Cave needed more characters TBH
I think the ND games had a bit of a run where the character you have least reason to interact with is the culprit lol (Lewis, Lisa, Yanni…) It made it really predictable lol.
*gets popcorn* YES.
Thank you for doing this video 🙂
Lisa just lies about not knowing Spanish ahahahhahaa. I think Joseph in Final Scene is a great culprit, he's three dimensional as a character. It's not easy writing sympathetic culprits. But he's definitely not a proper villain
Happy Bday please rank all the nancy drew death scenes.
they could have done so much more with culprit in secret's can kill remastered they could have given some connection and motive to the culprit as it was, it was just stupid...
Hey, do ace attorney, plz?
Nancy Drew and Murder She Wrote: cozies
Ace Attorney: Cozy in Japanese
yay
Congrats on 15!!! I’ve watched you since 2015-2016 so I’ve been here for awhile ❤❤